Season so far

UEFA Champions League

Key, Kairat v Pafos
League position, Kairat 36th, Pafos 32ndTotal points, Kairat 0, Pafos 1

Goals scored

Kairat 1Pafos 1

Form guide

All competitions

Kairat won
v Kyzyl-Zhar
0
1
Premier League
Pafos won
v Ethnikos Achna
4
0
1. Division
Kairat won
v Zhetysu
5
0
Premier League
Pafos won
v AEK Larnaca
2
4
1. Division
Kairat lose
v Real Madrid
0
5
UEFA Champions League
Pafos lose
v Bayern Munich
1
5
UEFA Champions League
Kairat won
v Zhenys Astana
3
1
Premier League
Pafos won
v Olympiakos Nicosia
2
1
1. Division
Kairat lose
v Sporting CP
4
1
UEFA Champions League
Pafos won
v Enosis
3
0
1. Division

Match Facts

  • Kairat’s meeting with Pafos will be the first fixture played between teams from Kazakhstan and Cyprus in European Cup/UEFA Champions League history.

  • Pafos are unbeaten in their last four away games in European competition (W3 D1, including qualifiers) and drew in their first road game in the UEFA Champions League (0-0 v Olympiakos on MD1). The last Cypriot side to win an away match in the European Cup/Champions League was Omonia Nicosia in September 1987 (1-0 v Shamrock Rovers).

  • Kairat have conceded nine goals in their first two UEFA Champions League matches (4 v Sporting CP and 5 v Real Madrid), while not since Northern Irish side Portadown in September 1991 has a team conceded 4+ goals in their first three matches in the European Cup/Champions League.

  • Pafos conceded 11 big chances in their 5-1 defeat to Bayern Munich on MD2 of this UEFA Champions League campaign; the most by a team in a single game since Malmö FF against Real Madrid in December 2015 (12).

  • Kairat have only scored one goal across their last five games in European competition (including qualifiers). Meanwhile, only Pafos (1) have generated fewer big chances (2) than the Kazakhstan side in the UEFA Champions League this season.

  • Kairat are the only team who have used the same starting XI in both of their UEFA Champions Legue matches this season (v Sporting CP and Real Madrid).

  • In terms of average age, Pafos have the oldest starting XI in the UEFA Champions League this season (29y 282d). Indeed, they are one of only two teams haven’t fielded a player under the age of 24 so far, along with Galatasaray.

  • Kairat (34.5%) versus Pafos (31.9%) will be a match between the two teams with the lowest possession averages in the UEFA Champions League this season. Indeed, they are also the two sides who have recorded the fewest 10+ pass sequences in open play (Kairat 4, Pafos 5).

  • Kairat’s Dastan Satpaev has started both of Kairat’s matches in the UEFA Champions League this season. Aged just 17 years and 49 days in his last outing, he is the second youngest player in the competition’s history to start in his team’s first two games of a single edition, after Anderlecht’s Anthony Vanden Borre in 2004-05 (16y 341d).

  • The two oldest outfielders to play in the UEFA Champions League are Pafos defender David Luiz (38y 161d) and Kairat’s Aleksandr Martynovich (38y 35d). If both start, it will be the first time in UEFA Champions League history that two outfielders aged 38 or older have started against each other in a game.