The winners of this tie will play Liverpool or Galatasaray in the quarter-final with the first leg at home. Galatasaray lead 1-0 in their tie ahead of the second leg at Anfield.

Head-to-head

The match features the reigning world Champions against the 2025 Champions League winners.

Prior to last week’s away leg, Chelsea met Paris St-Germain as recently as July when we played in the FIFA Club World Cup final, the first major international final ever contested between teams from England and France. Chelsea won 3-0 in the United States with two goals from Cole Palmer and one from Joao Pedro.

All the meetings before last summer’s Club World Cup were in the Champions League, with the two clubs drawn together in the knockout phase three years in a row between 2014 and 2016. Our 2004 meetings were in the group stage.

At Stamford Bridge, both teams have each secured one victory, while two matches ended in draws.

Head-to-head record (all competitions)

Played: 10
Won: 3
Drawn: 3
Lost: 4

Last five meetings

11 March 2015 | Champions League | Round of 16 (H) | D 2-2 Cahill, Hazard pen
16 February 2016 | Champions League | Round of 16 (A) | L 2-1 Mikel
9 March 2016 | Champions League | Round of 16 (H) | L 2-1 Diego Costa
13 July 2025 | Club World Cup final (N) | W 3-0 Palmer 2, Joao Pedro
11 March 2026 | Champions League | Round of 16 (A) | L 5-2 Gusto, Fernandez

Chelsea's biggest Champions League wins

21/10/2014 | Chelsea 6-0 Maribor | Group stage
12/09/2017 | Chelsea 6-0 Qarabag | Group stage

Chelsea stats

Chelsea are competing in our 20th Champions League campaign. We have made the knockout stage in each of our past nine appearances.

At Parc des Princes last week, Chelsea conceded five goals in European competition for the third time, following on from a 5-1 Champions League quarter-final defeat after extra time to Barcelona in April 2000, and a 5-0 loss also to Barcelona in a Fairs Cup semi-final play-off in May 1966.

The biggest first-leg deficit overturned in the Champions League Round of 16 was when Barcelona came back from 4-0 down against PSG to win 6-5 on aggregate in 2016/17.

Chelsea have only lost an away first leg in Europe by three or more goals once before – a 3-0 Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final defeat to Real Zaragoza in April 1995. Although we won the second leg 3-1 at Stamford Bridge two weeks later, the Spanish side went on to beat Arsenal in the final.

Only one Champions League knockout game involving Chelsea has featured more than the seven goals that were scored in the first leg of this tie. That was our quarter-final second leg against Liverpool at the Bridge in 2008/09 which finished 4-4.

This is our 18th Round of 16 tie in the Champions League. Only Real Madrid (23), Bayern Munich (22) and Barcelona (20) have appeared in more. We have progressed from this stage 11 times, including the last three ties.

In the first leg, Enzo Fernandez both scored and assisted in a Champions League game for the first time.

Chelsea have scored in each of our past 24 European games, since a 2-0 defeat to Real Madrid in April 2023.

The Blues are aiming to avoid three consecutive defeats in all competitions for the first time since February 2025 (Brighton FA Cup 1-2, Brighton Premier League 0-3, Aston Villa Premier League 1-2).

2025/26 Champions League results

17 September | Bayern Munich | (A) L 3-1 Palmer
30 September | Benfica (H) | W 1-0 Rios og
22 October | Ajax (H) | W 5-1 Guiu, Caicedo, Fernandez, Estevao, George
5 November | Qarabag (A) | D 2-2 Estevao, Garnacho
25 November | Barcelona (H) | W 3-1 Kounde og, Estevao, Delap
9 December | Atalanta (A) | L 2-1 Joao Pedro
21 January | Pafos (H) | W 1-0 Caicedo
28 January | Napoli (A) | W 3-2 Fernandez, Joao Pedro (2)
11 March | Paris Saint-Germain (A) | L 5-2 Gusto, Fernandez

Champions League scorers
Estevao 3 (1 pen), Fernandez 3 (1 pen), Joao Pedro 3, Caicedo 2, Delap 1, Garnacho 1, George 1, Guiu 1, Gusto 1, Palmer 1, own goals 2

Champions League assists
Fernandez 2, James 2, Palmer 2, Santos 2, Fofana 1, Gittens 1, Gusto 1, Neto 1

Our knockout games against French teams at Stamford Bridge (all Champions League)

2003/04 Semi-finals | Monaco D 2-2 | Gronkjaer, Lampard
2013/14 Quarter-finals | PSG W 2-0 | Schurrle, Ba
2014/15 Round of 16 | PSG D 2-2 | Cahill, Hazard pen
2015/16 Round of 16 | PSG L 1-2 | Diego Costa
2021/22 Round of 16 | Lille W 2-0 | Havertz, Pulisic

If the aggregate scores are level after 90 minutes on Tuesday night, there will be 30 minutes extra time and if necessary, a penalty shoot-out.

Chelsea won our last penalty shoot-out 4-2 against Newcastle in the League Cup quarter-final in December 2023, having lost the previous two in 2022 in the League Cup and FA Cup finals.

PSG have won all three of their penalty shoot-outs this season.

Milestones

Robert Sanchez made his 100th Chelsea appearance against Newcastle at the weekend.

The next game Enzo Fernandez captains the side will be the 50th time he has worn the armband from the start since joining the Blues in January 2023.

Paris Saint-Germain stats

Last season

Ligue 1: Winners
Champions League: Winners
Coupe de France: Winners
Trophee des Champions: Winners
Club World Cup: Runners-up

This season

Ligue 1: First place
Champions League: Round of 16
Coupe de France: Lost at home to Paris FC in the last 32
Trophee des Champions: Winners
UEFA Super Cup: Winners
FIFA Intercontinental Cup: Winners

This is PSG’s 18th campaign in the Champions League proper. They have featured every season since 2012/13, reaching the knockout stages in the last 14 campaigns.

Paris Saint-Germain have won their last five knockout ties.

PSG have lost two of their last 15 European games (nine wins, four draws).

The last time Paris St-Germain lost by three goals in any competition was against Chelsea in last summer’s Club World Cup final.

The Parisiens have won 35 of their 42 European ties after a first-leg victory.

Paris Saint-Germain have secured victories in their last three two-legged fixtures against English teams, all during last season’s Champions League. They eliminated Liverpool via penalties, defeated Aston Villa with a 5-4 aggregate score, and overcame Arsenal 3-1 on aggregate.

Paris Saint-Germain are top scorers in the Champions League this season with 31 goals.

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has scored/assisted 11 goals in his last 11 Champions League appearances for PSG.

2025/26 Champions League results

17 September | Atalanta (H) | W 4-0
1 October | Barcelona (A) | W 2-1
21 October | Bayer Leverkusen (A) | W 7-2
4 November | Bayern Munich (H) | L 2-1
26 November | Tottenham Hotspur (H) | W 5-3
10 December | Athletic Bilbao (A ) D 0-0
20 January | Sporting Lisbon (A) | L 2-1
28 January | Newcastle United (H) | D 1-1
17 February | Monaco (A) | W 3-2
25 February | Monaco (H) | D 2-2
11 March | Chelsea (H) | W 5-2

Champions League scorers
Kvaratskhelia 6, Vitinha 6, Doue 4, Dembele 2, Marquinhos 2, Mendes 2, Pacho 2, Ramos 2, Barcola 1, Hakimi 1, Neves 1, Mayulu 1, Ruiz 1

PSG’s top scorer in all competitions this season is Ousmane Dembele with 12.

PSG’s last five results

Metz (h) Ligue 1 | W 3-0
Monaco (h) UCL | D 2-2
Le Havre (a) Ligue 1 | W 1-0
Monaco (h) Ligue 1 | L 1-3
Chelsea (h) UCL | W 5-2

Luis Enrique’s managerial record vs Chelsea

Won: 1
Drawn: 0
Lost: 1

Last Champions League line-up

Paris Saint-Germain 5-2 Chelsea
Wednesday 11 March
Team (4-3-3): Safonov; Hakimi, Marquinhos (c), Pacho, Mendes; Zaire-Emery (Hernandez 78), Vitinha, Neves; Doue (Kvaratskhelia 62), Dembele (Lee 69), Barcola (Mayulu 78)
Scorers: Barcola 10, Dembele 40, Vitinha 74, Kvaratskhelia 86, 90+4
Booked: Kvaratskhelia 88

Discipline

Enzo Fernandez and Andrey Santos are one Champions League booking away from a one-match suspension.

Players and team officials are suspended for the next competition match after three cautions, that did not result in a red card, as well as after any subsequent odd-numbered caution (fifth, seventh, ninth, etc). All yellow cards expire on the completion of the quarter-finals and are not carried forward to the semi-finals.

Chelsea Premier League yellow cards
Fernandez 2, Santos 2, Caicedo 1, Chalobah 1, Estevao 1, Fofana 1, Gittens 1, Gusto 1, James 1, Tosin 1

Match officials

Referee: Slavko Vincic (Slovenia)
Assistant referees: Tomaz Klancnik, Andraz Kovacic
Fourth official: David Smajc
VAR: Christian Dingert

Slavko Vincic was the referee when we beat Barcelona 3-0 in November.