Anderlecht and Bayern await ninth meeting

RSC Anderlecht and FC Bayern München will play their ninth game against each other in the UEFA Cup Round of 16, having first met in the 1976 UEFA Super Cup.

• Bayern and Anderlecht have encountered each other on eight previous occasions, with the German side winning four, drawing two and losing two. The aggregate score from those meetings is 14-11 to the Bavarians.

• Their most recent meeting was in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League group stage. The first meeting in Brussels ended in a 1-1 draw, with Roque Santa Cruz cancelling out Ivica Mornar's opener for Anderlecht. Bayern won their home fixture 1-0, with Roy Makaay scoring the only goal from the penalty spot.

• Of the current Anderlecht side, goalkeeper Daniel Zítka and defender Olivier Deschacht played in both legs of the tie, while midfielder Mark De Man was an unused substitute in the first fixture.

• Bayern were coached by Ottmar Hitzfeld in both legs of that game and Oliver Kahn started the two games, with Bastian Schweinsteiger twice coming on as a substitute.

• Prior to those ties, the sides had met in two European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-finals and the 1976 UEFA Super Cup. Of those two-legged ties, Anderlecht won two and Bayern one.

• Their first meeting was in the 1976 Super Cup. Bayern had beaten AS Saint-Etienne 1-0 to win the European Cup in Glasgow, while Anderlecht beat West Ham United FC 4-2 in Brussels to take the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

• Dettmar Cramer's Bayern won the first leg in Munich 2-1, with Gerhard Müller scoring twice following an Arie Haan opener for Anderlecht. Raymond Goethals' Anderlecht took a 3-0 lead in the second leg through goals from Rob Rensenbrink, Franky Van Der Elst and Haan, and although Müller grabbed a goal back, Rensenbrink struck again to win the match 4-1 and the tie 5-3 on aggregate.

• They then faced off in two successive European Cup quarter-finals in 1985/86 and 1986/87. Twice a scorer in the UEFA Super Cup final between the two clubs, Haan was Anderlecht's coach for both ties while Bayern were led by Udo Lattek.

• The first tie ended in a 3-2 aggregate win for Anderlecht. They lost the first leg in Munich 2-1, with Dieter Hoeness and Roland Wohlfarth putting Bayern 2-0 up before Henrik Andersen pulled one back. Goals from Enzo Scifo and Per Frimann saw the Belgian side win the second leg 2-0. However, Anderlecht lost out in the semi-final to CSA Steaua Bucureşti, the eventual winners.

• Lattek's side avenged that defeat in style the following season, winning 5-0 at home with goals from Michael Rummenigge, Hans Pflügler, Hoeness (2) and Wohlfarth, before drawing 2-2 away. Bayern went on to reach the final that season but lost 2-1 to FC Porto despite leading 1-0 with 13 minutes to go at Vienna's Ernst-Happel-Stadion.

• As they prepare to host Bayern again, Anderlecht's record in four previous home games against the German side is won two and drawn two.

• Anderlecht have played 27 games against German opponents in UEFA club competition, winning ten, drawing three and losing 14. Of their 13 home games against Bundesliga sides, they have won seven, drawn three and lost three.

• Worryingly for Ariël Jacobs' side, Anderlecht have not won in their last nine games – home and away – against German teams.

• Bayern have played 12 games against Belgian opposition, including the eight against Anderlecht. Of those games they have won seven, drawn three and lost two. In Belgium itself, they have won one game, drawn three and lost two.

• Bayern have not lost in their last four European away games.

• The current Bayern side boast Belgian talent in the form of defender Daniel Van Buyten. The Belgian international – born to a Belgian father and a German mother – played for R. Charleroi SC and R. Standard de Liège in his native country before spells at Olympique de Marseille, Manchester City FC and Hamburger SV, from whom he joined Bayern in 2006.

• Van Buyten and Anderlecht's Mbo Mpenza were team-mates at Standard in the late 1990s.

• Anderlecht defender Jelle Van Damme and Bayern's Miroslav Klose were also briefly team-mates at Werder Bremen in 2005/06, when the Belgian international spent a brief loan spell at the Weserstadion.

• Several other Anderlecht players have Bundesliga experience. Bart Goor spent three seasons at Hertha BSC Berlin, Ján Polak joined Anderlecht last summer after two seasons at 1. FC Nürnberg while German-born Turkish international Serhat Akın spent time on loan at 1. FC Köln last season.

• Serhat Akın and Bayern goalkeeper Kahn were both born in Karslruhe.

• Bayern's Luca Toni and Mark van Bommel remain within a booking of a ban, while the same goes for Anderlecht's Serhat Akın, Ahmed Hassan, Ján Polak, Roland Juhász and Marcin Wasilewski. Bart Goor is available again after serving a suspension.

• Anderlecht finished third in UEFA Cup Group G to reach the Round of 32, and then beat FC Girondins de Bordeaux 3-2 on aggregate to set up their tie with Bayern. Bayern won Group F and thrashed Aberdeen FC 7-3 on aggregate to book their place.

• The second leg will be played in Munich on 12 March. The draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the UEFA Cup will be held at UEFA HQ in Nyon on 14 March at 12.00CET.