PSG's UCL knockout stat
Social tracking of Champions League knockouts highlighted that Paris Saint‑Germain have beaten English teams five times in UCL knockout ties this cycle, including wins over Liverpool (twice), Aston Villa, Arsenal, and Chelsea. (x.com) That stat has been circulated widely as a reminder of PSG's recent knockout consistency against Premier League opponents. (x.com)
Paris Saint-Germain have now knocked out five English opponents in Champions League ties across the past two seasons, finishing the latest one with a 4-0 aggregate quarter-final win over Liverpool on April 14. (uefa.com) The most recent tie was emphatic: Paris beat Liverpool 2-0 in Paris on April 7 and 2-0 again at Anfield on April 14, with Ousmane Dembélé scoring twice in the second leg. (uefa.com, psg.fr) Before Liverpool, Paris eliminated Chelsea in the 2025-26 round of 16, winning 5-2 at home on March 11 and 3-0 away on March 17 for an 8-2 aggregate score. (uefa.com, uefa.com) Three of the five English knockouts came in Paris’s title run in 2024-25. UEFA’s season archive shows Paris beat Liverpool on penalties in the round of 16, then Aston Villa 5-4 on aggregate in the quarter-finals, then Arsenal 3-1 on aggregate in the semi-finals. (uefa.com, uefa.com) That sequence matters because English clubs supplied nearly every major test in Paris’s last two knockout campaigns. In 2024-25, the club’s path to the final ran through three Premier League teams before Paris beat Inter in Munich to win the competition for the first time. (uefa.com, uefa.com) It also sharpens the contrast with Paris’s older Champions League record. The club lost the 2020 final to Bayern Munich, lost a 2021 semi-final to Manchester City, and had several earlier exits before finally winning the trophy in 2025. (uefa.com, uefa.com, uefa.com) UEFA’s own match preview for the Liverpool second leg noted the trend before kickoff, saying Paris had won their previous four two-legged European ties against English clubs. Liverpool then became the fifth. (uefa.com, uefa.com) Paris are now into the 2025-26 semi-finals, and the stat keeps growing because the club has turned a run of English opponents into a repeatable part of its Champions League record. (uefa.com, uefa.com)
