Champions League, September 10, 2026: 23 goals in six matches, with Bayern, United and Como in command

The first matchday of the UEFA Champions League league phase ended on Thursday, September 10, 2026, with 23 goals across six distinct matches. Bayern Munich and Manchester United recorded the clearest wins of the evening, Como beat Leipzig 4-1, and Lens won 3-2 in Prague. The other two fixtures, Fenerbahçe v Roma and PSV Eindhoven v Shakhtar Donetsk, ended 1-1.

For more information on Bayern Munich, see Bayern Munich v PSG: the decisive Champions League semi-final — live coverage, kick-off time and the huge stakes, which provides additional details on the subject.

An important detail for reading the evening’s results correctly: the Como v Leipzig match appears twice in the dataset, once with the opponent listed as “Leipzig” and once as “RB Leipzig”. It is the same fixture, not two different matches. The summary below therefore includes six unique results, confirmed in UEFA’s fixture schedule and results list.

Champions League results

UEFA lists these matches in the first matchday of the 2026/27 league phase. Fenerbahçe v Roma and PSV v Shakhtar kicked off at 19:45 Romanian time, while the other four matches began at 22:00 Romanian time.

A night dominated by the home sides, with three wins to nil

The six matches produced 23 goals, an average of 3.83 per game. The home sides scored 17 of them and the visitors six. This distribution is also reflected in the results: Como, Bayern Munich and Manchester United won at home, Fenerbahçe and PSV drew, while Lens were the only team to take all three points away from home.

There were also three matches in which one side did not concede: Bayern Munich v Bodø/Glimt, 5-0, and Manchester United v Sabah, 4-0; from Lens’s perspective, Slavia Praha v Lens does not fall into this category because the French side conceded twice. Overall, Bayern and United delivered the most emphatic statements of the evening, while Como recorded one of the most convincing wins in a round featuring only six matches.

Como 4-1 Leipzig: four-goal start for the Italian side

Como beat Leipzig 4-1, finishing the evening with one of the three home wins. Their three-goal margin was matched only by Manchester United’s victory over Sabah and surpassed by Bayern Munich, who won by five goals.

In the dataset, the opponent appears as both “Leipzig” and “RB Leipzig”. UEFA’s official list uses the name “Leipzig”, and the score is the same, 4-1. To avoid artificially inflating the totals for goals and matches, the fixture was counted only once.

Bayern Munich 5-0 Bodø/Glimt: the biggest win of the evening

Bayern Munich beat Bodø/Glimt 5-0. It was the biggest scoreline among the matches selected for September 10 and one of the evening’s three clean-sheet wins. For Bayern, the start of the league phase means three points and a goal difference of plus five after the opening match.

The Bavarians’ next test will be away to Viking in matchday two. Bodø/Glimt return home against Borussia Dortmund.

Manchester United 4-0 Sabah: four goals and a clean sheet

Manchester United beat Sabah 4-0. The result places the English side alongside Bayern and Como among the teams to record wins by at least three goals on the night.

Sabah conceded four goals and will play their next match at home to Slavia Praha. Manchester United have an away match against Atlético de Madrid scheduled for October 13.

Fenerbahçe v Roma and PSV v Shakhtar: two draws with the same scoreline

Fenerbahçe and Roma drew 1-1 in Istanbul. Roma opened the scoring in the 39th minute through Bryan Cristante, netting his first Champions League goal after a move created by Donyell Malen. Fenerbahçe responded immediately after half-time, with Archie Brown levelling in the 48th minute from Mason Greenwood’s pass. Roma also had a possible penalty overturned following a VAR intervention, while the hosts came close to a late winner when Nathan Aké struck the crossbar.

PSV Eindhoven and Shakhtar Donetsk also drew 1-1. The Ukrainian side led at half-time after Gleiker Mendoza scored in the 45th+1 minute, but PSV equalised shortly after the restart through Sergiño Dest in the 48th minute. The Dutch side attempted to force a winner in the second half, but Shakhtar held firm and left Eindhoven with a point. For PSV, the draw ended a run of five consecutive defeats in Champions League opening matches, but the team remains without a win on the competition’s first matchday since 2015.

In the league phase, each of the four teams therefore receives one point, with all starting the season with a neutral goal difference after their first match. For context on the format and schedule, see InfoBuz’s guide to the 2026/27 Champions League league phase.

Slavia Praha 2-3 Lens: the only away win

Lens won 3-2 at Slavia Praha, the evening’s only result in which an away team claimed all three points. The five goals made this one of the round’s highest-scoring fixtures, level with Como v Leipzig and Bayern Munich v Bodø/Glimt.

For Lens, the result provides a three-point start before their home meeting with Sporting CP. Slavia Praha will travel to Sabah in the next round.

What the results mean after the first matchday

In strictly mathematical terms, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Como and Lens each have three points after the matches on September 10. Fenerbahçe, Roma, PSV Eindhoven and Shakhtar Donetsk each have one point, while Bodø/Glimt, Sabah, Leipzig and Slavia Praha remain without a point after their opening game.

The overall league-phase table cannot be interpreted from this group of six matches alone, since the first matchday includes all 36 teams and the results from September 8 and 9. For a look at the previous evening, see the Champions League results from September 9, 2026, and for the start of the competition, the summary of the September 8 matches.

Next Champions League matches

Matchday two is scheduled for October 13 and 14, 2026. Below are the next fixtures for the teams that played on September 10. Times are shown in Romanian time.