Sport24.az
The statistics of the Benfica (Portugal) - Qarabag match, which will be held in the first round of the main stage of the Champions League, have been announced. Sport24.az reports that the official website of UEFA has released information about this.
Benfica - Qarabag
The Portuguese representative will compete in the Champions League (formerly the European Champions Cup) for the 45th time. The team is second only to the Spanish representative Real in this indicator - 56.
Benfica has won the first match in two of the last three seasons in the continent's number one club tournament.
Qarabag qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the second time after playing in the group stage in the 2017/2018 season. The club is the only Azerbaijani team to reach this stage of the competition.
Qarabag has been competing in the group/league stages of UEFA tournaments for the 12th consecutive season.
The Azerbaijani representative has previously faced Portuguese clubs twice in UEFA tournaments. The team, which lost to Sporting in two matches (0:2, 1:6) in the group stage of the Europa League in the 2018/2019 season, was stronger than Braga based on the results of two matches in the play-off of the same tournament in the 2023/2024 season - 6:5.
