Season so far

UEFA Champions League

Key, Monaco v Benfica
League position, Monaco 3rd, Benfica 19thTotal points, Monaco 10, Benfica 6

Goals scored

Monaco 10Benfica 7

Goals conceded

Monaco 4Benfica 5

Shots

Monaco 46Benfica 35

Shots on target

Monaco 25Benfica 21

Shots off target

Monaco 21Benfica 14

Blocked shots

Monaco 18Benfica 11

Passing accuracy %

Monaco 82.62Benfica 84.39

Form guide

All competitions

Monaco won
v Brest
3
2
Ligue 1
Benfica won
v Estrela
7
0
Taça de Portugal
Monaco won
v Strasbourg
1
3
Ligue 1
Benfica won
v Porto
4
1
Primeira Liga
Monaco won
v Bologna
0
1
UEFA Champions League
Benfica lose
v Bayern Munich
1
0
UEFA Champions League
Monaco lose
v Angers SCO
0
1
Ligue 1
Benfica won
v Farense
1
2
Primeira Liga
Monaco lose
v Nice
2
1
Ligue 1
Benfica won
v Santa Clara
3
0
Taça da Liga

Previous meetings

All competitions

Monaco and Benfica
Played
2
Monaco Won 0Benfica Won 1Draw 1

Previous scores

All competitions

UEFA Champions League

Benfica 1 , Monaco 0 on the 4th of November 2014
Benfica
Monaco
4th of November 2014
Monaco 0 , Benfica 0 on the 22nd of October 2014
Monaco
Benfica
22nd of October 2014

Match Facts

  • Monaco and Benfica will meet for a third time in the UEFA Champions League, having previously faced each other in the 2014-15 campaign. Monaco failed to win both games against them in the group stage (D1 L1), while failing to score in either match.

  • Benfica have never won away from home against a French opponent in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (D3 L5). Indeed, only away to German sides have they played more such matches without ever winning (12).

  • After having a 14-game winless run in the UEFA Champions League between 2017 and 2018 (D3 L11), Monaco have won three of their four matches this season (D1). They’ve also scored more goals in 2024-25 (10) than they did in that 14-game winless run (9).

  • Monaco have won three of their opening four matches in a season in major European competition for the first time since 2005-06 in the UEFA Cup (L1). Only four times have they won four of their opening five – most recently in 2005-06 – and only once have they done so in the UEFA Champions League (1997-98).

  • Benfica have won 49 matches in the UEFA Champions League and could become the second Portuguese side to 50 wins, after FC Porto (96). It will have taken them 137 games should they win in this match, the most games to reach 50 victories in the competition (currently 124 the most, Porto & Ajax).

  • Monaco have won both of their home UEFA Champions League matches this season, having lost each of their previous seven at the Stade Louis II. They last had a longer winning run in the four home games immediately prior to that seven-game home losing run.

  • 57% of Benfica’s goals in the UEFA Champions League this season have been scored via set pieces (4/7); the highest percentage of any team through the opening four matchdays. Two of those four set piece goals have been netted by Orkun Kökçü – direct FK versus Crvena Zvezda and a penalty versus Atlético Madrid.

  • Monaco manager Adi Hütter has faced Benfica before in major European competition, with his Eintracht Frankfurt side eliminating them on away goals in the UEFA Europa League in 2018-19 (lost 2-4 away, won 2-0 home) in what was Bruno Lage’s first spell in charge of the Portuguese side.

  • Benfica’s Ángel Di María has assisted 36 goals in the UEFA Champions League, with only three players in the competition’s history providing more: Ryan Giggs (41), Cristiano Ronaldo (40) and Lionel Messi (39). Di María is currently joint-fourth in this ranking, along with David Beckham on 36.

  • Monaco’s Breel Embolo has assisted a goal in each of his last two UEFA Champions League appearances – the only player to assist a goal in more consecutive Monaco games is Thomas Lemar between February and April 2017 (4 in a row).