Champions League Table: Barcelona, Sporting CP and Arsenal Lead After Matchday 2's Opening Night
Barcelona, Sporting CP and Arsenal are the only teams with two wins from two in the Champions League table after Tuesday night, though Wednesday's nine fixtures could soon crowd the top. Barcelona lead on goal difference (+7) after beating Galatasaray 4-1 in Istanbul, while Arsenal's 3-0 win over Lille left them as the only side to have played twice without conceding.
Matchday 2 of the 2026/27 league phase finishes tonight, Wednesday 14 October, with Manchester City hosting Paris Saint-Germain as the headline game. So the standings below mix 18 clubs that have played twice with 18 that have played once.
Champions League table: full standings after Tuesday's games Barcelona top the Champions League table on six points and a +7 goal difference, with Sporting CP and Arsenal level on six. Positions follow the live standings feed, and any club showing one game played is still waiting for its Matchday 2 fixture.
Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Barcelona 2 2 0 0 9 2 +7 6 2 Sporting CP 2 2 0 0 5 1 +4 6 3 Arsenal 2 2 0 0 4 0 +4 6 4 Bayern Munich 2 1 1 0 8 3 +5 4 5 Paris Saint-Germain 1 1 0 0 6 1 +5 3 6 Como 1 1 0 0 4 1 +3 3 7 Manchester United 2 1 0 1 4 2 +2 3 8 VfB Stuttgart 1 1 0 0 3 1 +2 3 9 Manchester City 1 1 0 0 2 0 +2 3 10 Villarreal 2 1 0 1 5 4 +1 3 11 Aston Villa 1 1 0 0 3 2 +1 3 11 Real Betis 1 1 0 0 3 2 +1 3 13 Atlético Madrid 2 1 0 1 3 2 +1 3 14 Borussia Dortmund 1 1 0 0 3 2 +1 3 15 Liverpool 1 1 0 0 2 1 +1 3 15 Real Madrid 1 1 0 0 2 1 +1 3 17 AEK Athens 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 3 18 Club Brugge 2 1 0 1 6 6 0 3 19 Lens 2 1 0 1 3 4 -1 3 20 RB Leipzig 2 1 0 1 2 4 -2 3 21 Sabah 2 1 0 1 2 4 -2 3 22 Roma 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 22 Shakhtar Donetsk 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 24 Fenerbahçe 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 25 PSV Eindhoven 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 1 26 Viking 2 0 1 1 4 6 -2 1 27 LASK 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0 28 Inter 2 0 0 2 4 6 -2 0 29 Porto 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0 30 Slavia Praha 2 0 0 2 2 5 -3 0 31 Napoli 2 0 0 2 1 4 -3 0 32 Lille 2 0 0 2 2 6 -4 0 33 Feyenoord 1 0 0 1 1 5 -4 0 34 Galatasaray 2 0 0 2 2 7 -5 0 35 Slovan Bratislava 1 0 0 1 1 6 -5 0 36 Bodø/Glimt 1 0 0 1 0 5 -5 0 The top eight after Matchday 8 on 27 January 2027 go straight into the last 16. Teams finishing ninth to 24th enter a two-legged play-off round, and everyone from 25th down is eliminated.
Tuesday's Matchday 2 results at a glance Nine games produced 32 goals on Tuesday, and three teams kept perfect records. Aleksei Batrakov gave Galatasaray the lead on 28 minutes with a deflected effort that came against the run of play.
João Cancelo levelled shortly before half-time with a neat finish. The match turned in about three minutes after the break.
Lamine Yamal crossed for Fermín López to head Barcelona in front on 50 minutes, then set up Anthony Gordon to score from close range on 53. Substitute Karim Adeyemi added a fourth with a crisp strike on 65, and Yamal took the player of the match award.
Hansi Flick's side have scored nine goals in two games, having beaten Feyenoord 5-1 on Matchday 1, and their +7 goal difference is the best in the competition. Galatasaray, beaten 3-1 by Sporting CP in their opener, have conceded seven and sit 34th without a point.
Barcelona's next game is a hard one: Paris Saint-Germain away on Tuesday 20 October. Arsenal break Lille with three goals in seven minutes Lille defended well for an hour at the Emirates.