Season so far

UEFA Champions League

Key, Man Utd v Sabah
League position, Manchester United 18th, Sabah 24thTotal points, Manchester United 0, Sabah 0

Form guide

All competitions

Manchester United draw
v Everton
2
2
Premier League
Sabah won
v Zira
5
0
Premyer Liqa
Manchester United won
v Ipswich Town
5
2
Premier League
Sabah won
v Araz Naxçıvan
0
1
Premyer Liqa
Manchester United lose
v Hull City
2
0
Premier League
Sabah won
v Hapoel Be'er Sheva
5
2
UEFA Champions League
Manchester United lose
v AC Milan
2
4
Club Friendlies
Sabah lose
v Hapoel Be'er Sheva
2
1
UEFA Champions League
Manchester United draw
v Leeds United
1
1
Club Friendlies
Sabah won
v Kapaz
2
0
Premyer Liqa

Match Facts

  • Manchester United are set to face an Azerbaijani side for the first time ever in European competition.

  • In major European competition, English teams have never lost against sides from Azerbaijan in 11 previous meetings (W10 D1), with all 11 coming against Qarabag between 2015-16 and 2025-26.

  • Manchester United haven’t won their first game in any of their last four major European seasons (D1 L3) since winning 2-1 away at Paris SG in their first game of the 2020-21 UEFA Champions League.

  • Manchester United last featured in the UEFA Champions League in the 2023-24 campaign, when they were eliminated in the group stage. The Red Devils have won just one of their last nine games in the competition (D3 L5).

  • Sabah will feature in a major European competition for the first time in their history and become just the second team from Azerbaijan to play in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, following Qarabag (eliminated in group stage in 2017-18, reached play-offs in 2025-26).

  • This game will be 4 years and 291 days since Michael Carrick's first UEFA Champions League game as manager, in his caretaker spell with Man Utd in November 2021 (2-0 win over Villarreal). Only Gian Piero Gasperini (8y 4d, 2011-19), Vincenzo Montella (6y 350d, 2011-18) and Sergei Semak (5y 182d, 2014-19) have had a bigger gap between their first two games.

  • Sabah boss Valdas Dambrauskas will be the first ever Lithuanian to manage in the UEFA Champions League – he has lost five of his seven major European games (W1 D1) during spells with Ludogorets and Omonia Nicosia. The last Lithuanian player to feature in the Champions League was Deividas Semberas in December 2011 for CSKA Moscow.

  • Marcus Rashford has been involved in 25 goals in 48 UEFA Champions League appearances (17 goals, 8 assists). However, Rashford averages a goal or assist more regularly not playing for Man Utd (one every 89 minutes for Aston Villa and Barcelona) than he does while playing for the Red Devils (one every 135 minutes).

  • Bruno Fernandes has been involved in 15 goals in 19 UEFA Champions League appearances for Manchester United (6 goals, 9 assists), scoring or assisting every 100 minutes. Among players to play 500+ minutes, only Ruud van Nistelrooy (one every 79 minutes) has scored or assisted more regularly.

  • Veljko Simic is the only current Sabah player to feature more than once in the UEFA Champions League, playing five games for Crvena Zvezda in the 2018-19 campaign without scoring or assisting or ending on the winning side (D1 L4).

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