Final Tuesday’s quarter-final first leg for Actual Madrid, a 3-0 loss in opposition to Arsenal, was their five hundredth recreation within the European Cup/Champions League. The Spanish facet are the primary membership within the competitors’s historical past to achieve that many matches, having additionally picked up the trophy a document 15 occasions alongside the best way.
Their first match in Europe’s premier membership competitors was a 2-0 win over Swiss membership Servette in Geneva in September 1955 they usually have performed within the event in 55 of the 70 seasons it has been held.
Actual Madrid have been concerned in 8.4 per cent of the 5,967 matches performed within the European Cup/Champions League, profitable 300 of these matches, drawing 85 and dropping 115.
They’ve scored 1,096 targets and conceded 553, for a objective distinction of 543. That is, unsurprisingly, the very best objective distinction within the event’s historical past. Turkish membership Galatasaray, with -99 from 157 video games, have the worst.
