Juventus vs PSV Eindhoven facts

Juventus welcome PSV Eindhoven for the second time in the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League, this time for the first leg of their knockout phase play-off tie.

The Italian side were 3-1 winners at home to the Dutch champions on Matchday 1 and went on to finish 20th in the inaugural league phase on 12 points – two points and six places behind PSV.

Previous meetings

The Matchday 1 fixture in Turin was the teams' first-ever meeting.

First-half goals from Kenan Yıldız (21) and Weston McKennie (27) put Juventus in control, Nicolás González (52) adding a third before substitute Ismael Saibari scored an added-time consolation for PSV.

Form guide

Juventus

Record vs Dutch clubs: W9 D6 L6 F29 A21
Home record vs Dutch clubs: W6 D2 L2

The Matchday 1 win against PSV was Juve's first game against a Dutch club since the 2018/19 Champions League quarter-finals, when a 1-2 second-leg defeat at home to Ajax confirmed a 2-3 aggregate loss.

That ended Juve's seven-match unbeaten run against Eredivisie clubs (W4 D3), since a 2-0 loss at Feyenoord in the 1997/98 group stage. The Italian side had been unbeaten in six games against Dutch sides in Turin (W4 D2), since a 0-1 loss against Twente in the 1974/75 UEFA Cup semi-final second leg (1-4 aggregate).

The 2019 defeat by Ajax made Juve's record in two-legged ties against Dutch clubs W4 L2.

Juventus are making their 24th appearance in the Champions League proper – an Italian record, three more than AC Milan.

The Italian side have returned to the competition after missing out in 2023/24. The previous season was their 11th consecutive Champions League campaign, and the first time Juve had missed out on the round of 16 since 2013/14 as they finished behind Benfica and Paris Saint-Germain in their section.

The Turin team went on to lose 3-2 on aggregate to eventual champions Sevilla in the 2022/23 UEFA Europa League semi-finals.

Juventus did not feature in UEFA competition in 2023/24 for the first time since 2011/12.

Juve have lost five of their last eight home Champions League matches – including 0-1 to Stuttgart on Matchday 3 and 0-2 against Benfica on Matchday 8 – having won ten of the previous 11, losing once. They have beaten PSV and Manchester City (2-0) in Turin this season.

The Bianconeri have lost their last three Champions League knockout ties.

Champions of Europe in 1985 and 1996, Juve have also lost seven European Cup finals including five in the Champions League era – more than any other club.

Having won a record nine successive Serie A titles between 2012 and 2020, Juve finished third in 2023/24 – their highest final placing since being crowned champions in 2019/20.

PSV Eindhoven

Record vs Italian clubs: W9 D6 L12 F29 A34
Away record vs Italian clubs: W2 D4 L8

Before losing to Juventus this season PSV had last faced Italian opponents in the 2018/19 group stage, losing 2-1 at home to Inter Milan before a 1-1 away draw.

The Eindhoven club are without a win in their last five games against Serie A sides (D2 L3) and have suffered two defeats in their last six games in Italy (W2 D2), the other a 0-3 reverse at AC Milan in the 2013/14 Champions League play-off second leg (1-4 aggregate).

This is PSV's first two-legged knockout tie against Italian opponents since that 2013 defeat by Milan. That made their aggregate record against Serie A clubs W2 L4, with defeats in the last three.

This is PSV's 18th appearance in the Champions League proper – level with Ajax's Dutch record – and a second in succession.

The Eindhoven club returned to the group stage last season for the first time since 2018/19, finishing second behind Arsenal in Group B only to lose out to eventual finalists Borussia Dortmund in the round of 16 (1-1 h, 0-2 a).

That was PSV's first knockout appearance since 2015/16, and just the fifth time they had progressed beyond the initial Champions League group stage.

PSV have lost all three knockout ties since beating Arsenal 2-1 on aggregate in the 2006/07 round of 16.

A 3-2 Matchday 7 win at Crvena Zvezda this season was only PSV's second success in their last 21 away matches in the Champions League proper (D6 L13), going back to a 1-0 victory at CSKA on 27 November 2007; this season they have lost at Juventus and Brest (0-1), drawing 1-1 at Paris Saint-Germain.

The Eindhoven side have won six of their last 19 European away games, losing six.

Having finished second in the Eredivisie for three successive seasons, PSV claimed their first league title since 2017/18 last season. Peter Bosz's side won 29 of their 34 league games, losing only one, their final tally of 91 points eclipsing Ajax's previous record of 89 set in 1997/98.

Links and trivia

Have played together:
Khéphren Thuram & Walter Benítez (Nice 2019–22)
Pierre Kalulu & Sergiño Dest (AC Milan 2022/23)
Andrea Cambiaso & Jerdy Schouten (Bologna 2022/23)
Teun Koopmeiners & Guus Til (AZ Alkmaar 2017–21)

Have played in Netherlands:
Teun Koopmeiners (AZ Alkmaar 2017–21)
Francisco Conceição (Ajax 2022/23 loan)

Have played in Italy:
Hirving Lozano (Napoli 2019–23)
Jerdy Schouten (Bologna 2019–23)
Arkadiusz Milik (Ajax 2014–16)
Ivan Perišić (Inter 2015–19, 2020–22)

Juventus coach Thiago Motta coached Schouten at Bologna in 2022/23.

International team-mates:
Weston McKennie, Timothy Weah & Ricardo Pepi, Malik Tillman, Sergiño Dest, Richie Ledezma (United States)
Nicolás González & Walter Benítez (Argentina)

Latest news

Juventus

The Bianconeri made it successive Serie A wins for only the third time this season with a 2-1 success at Como on Friday.

Randal Kolo Muani scored twice and now has five goals in three games since joining on loan from Paris Saint-Germain. He is the first player to score in his first three games for Juve, and the first to score five in his first three Serie A appearances, since Italy switched to three points for a win in 1994/95.

That was also only Juve's third win in ten games (D4 L3) in all competitions; they came from behind to beat Empoli 4-1 in Serie A on 2 February, Kolo Muani scoring twice.

Substitute Dušan Vlahović was also on target against Empoli, his first goal since 14 December.

Juve suffered their first Serie A defeat of the season on 25 January, going down 2-1 at leaders Napoli despite a debut goal from Kolo Muani giving them the lead.

The Bianconeri have drawn 13 of their 24 league matches this season and have let slip 17 points from winning positions.

Juve managed 21 league draws in 2024, fewer only than Perugia's Italian record of 22 in 1979.

Andrea Cambiaso has been out since suffering an ankle injury at Napoli while Pierre Kalulu has not played since being replaced early in the first half on Matchday 8 due to a thigh problem.

Arkadiusz Milik is yet to play this season after suffering a knee injury with Poland in June.

Juan Cabal and Bremer are not expected to play again this season due to knee ligament injuries.

PSV

PSV have won four of their last six games in all competitions, the exceptions a 3-3 Eredivisie draw at NEC Nijmegen on 1 February in which they led 3-1 after 90 minutes and Saturday's 1-1 home draw against Willem II, when they also conceded a late equaliser.

The Dutch champions won their first ten Eredivisie games this season and 14 of the first 15 (L1) but have managed only two victories in the subsequent seven.

This is the first time since 1980 PSV have started a calendar year with one win from their first five league games (D3 L1).

A 3-1 loss at Zwolle on 18 January is one of two in PSV's last seven Eredivisie matches – as many as in the previous 65 (W55 D8).

PSV were 2-0 winners at home to Feyenoord in the Dutch Cup quarter-finals on 5 February.

Ricardo Pepi is set to undergo surgery on a knee injury suffered against Liverpool.

Olivier Boscagli has also missed the last three games after picking up a muscle problem on Matchday 8.

Malik Tillman has not played since suffering "a serious ankle injury" in a 5-4 Dutch Cup win against Excelsior on 14 January.

Sergiño Dest has not played since suffering a knee injury in May.

On 2 February Pepi signed a contract extension until 2030.