PSV vs Leicester: UEFA Europa Conference League background, form guide, previous meetings

After a goalless first leg in England, UEFA Europa League group stage participants PSV Eindhoven and Leicester City will both harbour hopes of reaching the last four of the UEFA Europa Conference League as they reconvene in the Netherlands to decide this quarter-final tie.

• PSV 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.

• Leicester also 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).

Previous meetings
• Leicester faced Dutch opposition in a European encounter for the first time when they hosted PSV on 7 April, but they were unable to mark the occasion with a win, Harvey Barnes' first-half effort against the crossbar coming closest to breaking the deadlock in the English club's first home goalless draw in UEFA competition.

• PSV have now faced English clubs 35 times with the record W10 D10 L15. They have won just six of the previous 17 home games (D6 L5), drawing the most recent 2-2 against Tottenham in the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League group stage. Spurs were also their last English opponents in a knockout tie, in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup round of 16, PSV winning it 6-5 on penalties in Eindhoven after two 0-1 home defeats to make their all-time record in two-legged UEFA ties against English opposition W5 L4.

Form guide
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 steered 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). Their only quarter-final victory since they lifted the European Cup in 1988 was on penalties against Lyon in the 2004/05 UEFA Champions League (1-1 a, 1-1 h, 4-2 pens).

• PSV began this European campaign with two big wins in Eindhoven, 5-1 against Galatasaray and that 3-0 success against Midtjylland, to add to three straight home successes from last season, but were without a victory in three home European encounters (D2 L1) until they overcame Sturm on Matchday 5. Their home record in this European campaign is W4 D3 L1, the only defeat by Monaco on Matchday 3.

• This is the first UEFA tie in which PSV have drawn the first away leg in over a decade, the last one against Ried in the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League qualifying play-off when they also drew 0-0 before a 5-0 home win. In all they have won 14 of the 18 ties in which they have gone into the second home leg with the scores level, registering five aggregate wins out of six following a goalless first leg on the road, the sole defeat against Rangers in the 1978/79 UEFA Cup second round (2-3 h). The last time they were eliminated after drawing away in the first leg was by Fiorentina in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup quarter-final, losing 0-2 in Eindhoven after a 1-1 draw in Florence.

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. 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 have won only five of their 18 away fixtures in UEFA competition (D3 L10), the most impressive of them 3-0 at Club Brugge on their UEFA Champions League debut, the most recent that 3-1 success at Randers, the club's only European victory outside England during the spring (D1 L3).

• The Foxes have lost both of the previous UEFA ties in which they drew at home in the first leg – against Atlético de Madrid in the 1961/62 European Cup Winners' Cup second round (1-1 h, 0-2 a) and Crvena zvezda in the 2000/01 UEFA Cup first round (1-1 h, 1-3 a).

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.

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

• Yvon Mvogo (PSV) and Ademola Lookman (Leicester) 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 – and team-mate of Leicester's Luke Thomas – who played youth football for Spurs before joining PSV in 2018 at the age of 16.

• 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.

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

• Both clubs won domestic league matches at home on Sunday. While PSV defeated RKC Waalwijk 2-0 to remain four points behind leaders Ajax, the team they will face in the Dutch Cup final in Rotterdam this coming weekend, Leicester overcame Crystal Palace 2-1, midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall providing an assist and a spectacular first Premier League goal to help his team leapfrog their opponents into ninth place in the table.

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

Penalty shoot-outs
• PSV's record in six UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W3 L3:
6-5 v Benfica, 1987/88 European Champion Clubs' Cup final
6-7 v Nacional, 1988 European/South American Cup
4-5 v Feyenoord, 2001/02 UEFA Cup quarter-final
4-2 v Lyon, 2004/05 UEFA Champions League round of 16
6-5 v Tottenham, 2007/08 UEFA Europa League round of 16
7-8 v Atlético de Madrid, 2015/16 UEFA Champions League round of 16

• Leicester have yet to feature in a UEFA penalty shoot-out.