Leicester vs PSV match facts

Seeking to go further than ever before in a European competition, Leicester City take on Dutch opposition for the first time as they host PSV Eindhoven in the first leg of the UEFA Europa Conference League quarter-final.

• Leicester finished third in UEFA Europa League Group C, two points behind both Spartak Moskva and Napoli, after losing 3-2 away to the Italian club on Matchday 6, but came through their inaugural UEFA Europa Conference League tie in some comfort, defeating Danish side Randers 7-2 on aggregate, before edging through a tight round of 16 contest with Rennes (2-0 h, 1-2 a).

• PSV also finished third in their UEFA Europa League group on eight points, behind Monaco and Real Sociedad, following a 3-0 defeat in Spain on Matchday 6, but won their UEFA Europa Conference League knockout round play-off against Maccabi Tel-Aviv (1-0 h, 1-1 a) before putting eight goals past FC Copenhagen in the round of 16 (4-4 h, 4-0 a), three of them from Israeli striker Eran Zahavi.

Previous meetings
• While Leicester are encountering Dutch opponents for the first time, PSV have faced English clubs on 34 previous occasions with the record W10 D9 L15. Their 17 trips to England have yielded just four wins (D3 L10), with only one in the last ten (D3 L6) – 1-0 at Tottenham in the first leg of the 2007/08 UEFA Cup round of 16, a tie they won on penalties after losing the second leg by the same score in Eindhoven. That was the most recent of the nine two-legged UEFA ties against English opposition that PSV have been involved in and their fifth success.

Form guide
Leicester
• Leicester booked back-to-back appearances in the UEFA Europa League group stage by winning the FA Cup for the first time in their history last May thanks to a 1-0 victory in the final against Chelsea. However, in a repeat of the previous season Brendan Rodgers' side just missed out on UEFA Champions League qualification, finishing fifth in the Premier League after spending almost all of the campaign in the top four.

• The Foxes won their UEFA Europa League group last season on their competition debut but were eliminated in the round of 32 by Slavia Praha (0-0 a, 0-2 h). This term they won two, drew two and lost two of their six Group C games with Napoli, Legia Warszawa and Spartak, the highlight a 4-3 win in Moscow where new signing Patson Daka scored all four goals. Harvey Barnes and James Maddison both found the net twice as the East Midlanders saw off Randers in the UEFA Europa Conference League knockout round play-off (4-1 h, 3-1 a) before Wesley Fofana's goal in his native France on his comeback appearance after a seven-month injury lay-off ultimately decided the round of 16 contest against Rennes.

• This is Leicester's second European quarter-final, the first having come five years ago in the UEFA Champions League, when, as the last English team standing in that season's competition, they were narrowly defeated by Atlético de Madrid (0-1 a, 1-1 h).

• Leicester were undefeated in nine European home games (W7 D2), winning all six group encounters at the Leicester City Stadium with the concession of just one goal, until last season's defeat by Slavia. Rodgers' side are unbeaten at home in the current European campaign, drawing 2-2 against Napoli and 1-1 against Spartak before beating Legia (3-1), Randers and Rennes, the victory against the French side providing their only clean sheet in ten European games this term.

PSV
• PSV were runners-up to Ajax in the 2020/21 Eredivisie, finishing 16 points behind the Amsterdam club. Roger Schmidt's team coasted through two UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds this season, eliminating Galatasaray and Midtjylland, but came unstuck in the play-offs against Benfica (1-2 a, 0-0 h).

• The Eindhoven club therefore competed in the UEFA Europa League group stage for a record-equalling ninth season, but failed to secure a sixth qualification for the competition's knockout phase, beating Sturm Graz twice (4-1 a, 2-0 h) but taking just one point off each of the teams that finished above them – Real Sociedad (2-2 h, 0-3 a) and Monaco (1-2 h, 0-0 a). Subsequent UEFA Europa Conference League successes against Maccabi and Copenhagen have brought PSV into their first European quarter-final for 11 years.

• PSV have won just six of their previous 16 European quarter-finals, losing nine of the last ten including both previous ties at this stage against English opposition – versus Newcastle United in the 2003/04 UEFA Cup (1-1 h, 1-2 a) and Liverpool in the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League (0-3 h, 0-1 a). Their most recent last-eight tie brought a 6-3 aggregate defeat by Benfica in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League (1-4 a, 2-2 h).

• PSV's record on the road in Europe this season is W4 D2 L2. The 4-0 win in Copenhagen last time out was their first victory in six springtime away games in UEFA competition (D2 L3), since beating Trabzonspor 2-1 in the first leg of the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League round of 32.

Links and trivia
• Leicester's Zambian striker Daka was a Salzburg team-mate of PSV's Brazilian defender André Ramalho, the pair winning four Austrian Bundesliga titles together from 2017/18 to 2020/21.

• Leicester's Ricardo Pereira and PSV's French defender Olivier Boscagli were at Nice together from 2015 to 2017.

• Ademola Lookman (Leicester) and Yvon Mvogo (PSV) are both on loan from RB Leipzig. Another PSV squad member, Bruma, also played alongside Lookman for the German club in 2018.

• PSV striker Carlos Vinícius scored ten goals in 22 matches while on loan at Tottenham Hotspur last season, while Noni Madueke is a current England Under-21 international who played youth football for Spurs before joining PSV in 2018 at the age of 16.

• Leicester are one of three reigning domestic cup holders participating in the UEFA Europa Conference League quarter-finals, along with PAOK and Slavia Praha.

• The Eindhoven club are one of two Dutch teams in the UEFA Europa Conference League quarter-finals, along with Feyenoord. No other nation has more than one representative. PSV and Feyenoord are two of three former European Cup/UEFA Champions League winners in the last eight – along with Marseille.

• Both clubs drew away from home in their domestic leagues on Saturday, Leicester holding Manchester United 1-1 at Old Trafford and PSV striking late to share the spoils in a six-goal thriller against Twente in Enschede after they had trailed 3-0.

• The winners of this tie will face Bodø/Glimt or Roma in the semi-final.