UEFA Europa League | Juventus-NEC | Post-match stats

Some stats from the match between Juventus and NEC on Matchday 1 of the UEFA Europa League league phase

• Juventus have won their opening match of a major European competition by a margin of at least five goals for the seventh time in their history, the first since their UEFA Cup debut in 1992-93 (6-1 against Anorthosis Famagosta), when they lifted the trophy at the end of the tournament.
• Juventus have scored five or more goals in a match in all competitions for the first time since 12th January (5-0 v Cremonese); they have done so in a major European competition for the first time since December 2003 (7-0 v Olympiakos in the Champions League), which was also the last time before today that the Bianconeri had won a European match by a margin of five or more goals.
• Juventus have never lost their opening home match of a European competition season, recording 21 wins and five draws in 26 such games.
• Kerim Alajbegovic (18 years and 361 days) is only the second teenager in history to score for Juventus in a major European competition, after Gianfranco Zigoni (18 years and 311 days against OFK Belgrade in the Inter-Cities Fair Cup on 2nd October 1963).
• Nico Gonzalez has scored nine career goals in major European competitions, with his strike against NEC being his second for Juventus; his other goal for the Bianconeri also came against a Dutch side, PSV Eindhoven, in September 2024.
• Nick Woltemade is the first German player to score a goal for Juventus in a major European competition since Jürgen Kohler, who netted in the UEFA Cup in April 1995 against Borussia Dortmund.
• Kamil Grabara is the first Juventus goalkeeper to provide an assist in all competitions since Wojciech Szczesny in Serie A against Bologna in May 2021.
• Kamil Grabara (8:14) provided an assist quicker than any other Juventus player on his debut for the club in all competitions across the last 10 seasons.
• Since his first season with Juventus (2020-21), only Dusan Vlahovic (16) has been involved in more goals in major European competitions than Weston McKennie (12 - 10 goals, two assists).
• Juventus have scored at least three first-half goals in a European match for the first time since September 2021 (three goals in the Champions League against Malmö).
• Juventus have scored three or more goals in two consecutive home matches in major European competitions for the first time since December 2020-March 2021 (three against both Dynamo Kyiv and Porto in the Champions League).
• Randal Kolo Muani is the first player to score at least one goal and provide at least one assist as a substitute in a European match since Lorenzo Pellegrini (for Bologna against Bologna in the Europa League last March), and the first to do so for Juventus since Dusan Vlahovic in September 2025 (against Borussia Dortmund).
• This is Zeki Celik's third goal in European competition, after scoring against Celtic for Lille in October 2020 and against Porto for Roma in February 2025, both in UEFA Europa League.