Barcelona Have Lost Only Once in Their Previous 18 Champions League Home Openers, With 16 Wins and 1 Draw

Barcelona will host Feyenoord at 00:45 Beijing time the following day. According to Mundo Deportivo, in their previous 18 Champions League group-stage openers held in Barcelona, they have lost only once.

After four years, Barcelona will return to Spotify Camp Nou at 00:45 Beijing time the following day for their Champions League debut this season. Their opponent will be Rotterdam-based Feyenoord, coached by Giovanni van Bronckhorst. Barcelona's last Champions League opener at this stadium came in the 2022-23 season, when Xavi Hernandez's team defeated Viktoria Plzen 5-1.

The following season, Barcelona used the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys for the first time during their period away from Camp Nou and won their Champions League opener 5-0 against Royal Antwerp.

Barcelona's record in Champions League group-stage opening matches at home is almost perfect. Only Bayern Munich have prevented Barcelona from starting with a home victory in this elite competition, beating them 3-0 in the 2021-22 season during Ronald Koeman's tenure.

Thomas Muller scored once and Robert Lewandowski scored twice. It was also Lewandowski's final season at Bayern before joining Barcelona.

Among the 18 related matches played at Barcelona's home ground, only one ended in a draw. Milan held Barcelona to a 2-2 draw with Thiago Silva's goal in the 92nd minute. Before that, Pedro and David Villa had already overturned the opening goal scored by Alexandre Pato in the first minute.

Barcelona won 16 of these 18 matches, scoring 64 goals and conceding only 14.

Last season, Barcelona began their Champions League campaign away against Newcastle and eventually won 2-1 thanks to Marcus Rashford's brace.

Across both home and away matches, Barcelona have recorded 7 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses in their last 10 Champions League games. The only draw was a 0-0 away match against Borussia Dortmund in 2019, while the two defeats were a 0-3 home loss to Bayern in 2021 and a 1-2 away defeat to Monaco in 2024.