Season so far

UEFA Europa League

Key, R. Union SG v Braga
League position, Union Saint-Gilloise 20th, Sporting Braga 25thTotal points, Union Saint-Gilloise 8, Sporting Braga 7

Goals scored

Union Saint-Gilloise 5Sporting Braga 7

Form guide

All competitions

Union Saint-Gilloise won
v Sporting Charleroi
1
2
First Division A
Sporting Braga won
v Lusitano Évora 1911
2
1
Taça de Portugal
Union Saint-Gilloise lose
v Antwerp
5
1
Cup
Sporting Braga lose
v Benfica
3
0
Taça da Liga
Union Saint-Gilloise won
v Gent
1
3
First Division A
Sporting Braga won
v Benfica
1
2
Primeira Liga
Union Saint-Gilloise draw
v Club Brugge
2
2
First Division A
Sporting Braga lose
v Casa Pia
1
2
Primeira Liga
Union Saint-Gilloise won
v Westerlo
3
1
First Division A
Sporting Braga won
v Santa Clara
0
2
Primeira Liga

Previous meetings

All competitions

Union Saint-Gilloise and Sporting Braga
Played
2
Union Saint-Gilloise Won 1Sporting Braga Won 0Draw 1

Previous scores

All competitions

UEFA Europa League

Union Saint-Gilloise 3 , Sporting Braga 3 on the 13th of October 2022
Union Saint-Gilloise
Sporting Braga
13th of October 2022
Sporting Braga 1 , Union Saint-Gilloise 2 on the 6th of October 2022
Sporting Braga
Union Saint-Gilloise
6th of October 2022

Match Facts

  • Union Saint-Gilloise are unbeaten in both previous meetings with Braga, winning 2-1 away and drawing 3-3 at home in the 2022-23 UEFA Europa League group stage.

  • Since winning their first ever meeting with Belgian opponents in the 2008-09 UEFA Cup (3-0 vs Standard Liège), Sporting Braga are winless in their last seven against such sides (D5 L2).

  • Union Saint-Gilloise have won their last two UEFA Europa League games, last winning three in a row in September/October 2022.

  • Sporting Braga are without a clean sheet in any of their last 10 away major European games, shipping three goals in five of those 10 games and conceding 23 overall.

  • Union Saint-Gilloise’s Franjo Ivanovic netted both of their goals in the 2-1 win over Nice on MD6 – he was the youngest Croatian (21 years, 72 days) to score twice in a major European game since Marko Pjaca in December 2014 for Dinamo Zagreb against Celtic (19 years, 219 days, a hat-trick).