All you ever wanted to know: Champions League penalties

ALL-TIME

640 Penalties awarded
495 Penalties scored (77%)
39 Penalties missed (6%)
105 Penalties saved (17%)

Penalties in past five seasons

2018/19 9 awarded; 78% scored
2017/18 34 awarded; 82% scored
2016/17 53 awarded; 62% scored
2015/16 43 awarded; 58% scored
2014/15 39 awarded; 79% scored
2013/14 46 awarded; 63% scored

Most penalties in one season

34 2000/01
33= 1999/2000
33= 2016/17

There was a second group stage in 1999/2000 and 2000/01, and 157 matches overall. The current format, with 125 games per season, was introduced in 2003/04.

Most penalties scored in one match

2 On 38 occasions

Four minutes separated Keisuke Honda’s spot kick for CSKA Moskva on 27 November 2013 and Thomas Müller’s penalty for Bayern.

Most penalties converted on one night

Choupo-Moting converts for Schalke in 2014©AFP/Getty Images

8 21/10/2014, matchday three (5 games)

Most penalties converted on one matchday

10 28–29/10/2010, matchday three (7 games)

There were penalties in nine of the 16 games on matchday five in 2016/17.

CLUBS

Most penalties awarded

42= Barcelona
42= Real Madrid
38 Bayern
28 Manchester United
26 Arsenal

Lionel Messi’s 11th penalty in the competition©Getty Images

Madrid and Barcelona earn a spot kick roughly every six matches. Both are bettered by relative new kids on the block Manchester City (14) and Sevilla (11): theirs have come at a rate of one every four outings.

Best conversion rate (minimum ten pens)

92% Juventus
89% AC Milan
83% Real Madrid
83% Valencia
81% Chelsea

Beşiktaş and Werder Bremen have the best overall records, scoring seven out of seven.

Worst conversion rate (minimum ten pens)

On the up? Roma scored 3/3 in 2017/18©AFP/Getty Images

62% Roma
62% Leverkusen
64% Atlético
64% Sevilla
70% Lyon

Successive penalties converted (current)

9= Real Madrid
9= AC Milan
7= Beşiktaş
7= Werder Bremen

Real Madrid’s last spot kick failure came on 1 October 2014, when Ludogorets’ Vladislav Stoyanov denied Cristiano Ronaldo, who has since converted all nine in the competition for the Merengues.

Most penalties conceded

23= Real Madrid
23= Arsenal
22 Bayern
18 Olympiacos
17 Barcelona

Anderlecht are tenth having conceded 14 in 78 matches, an average of one every six outings.

Most penalties denied (minimum ten pens)

50% Manchester City (5/10 penalties)
44% Olympiacos (8/18)
44% Shakhtar (7/16)
40% Celtic (4/10)

Joe Hart denies Zlatan in 2016©Getty Images

City goalkeepers have saved half of the penalties they have faced; Atlético keepers have saved three out of five.

Worst record v pens (minimum ten pens)

0% Dynamo Kyiv (0/11 penalties)
6% PSV Eindhoven (1/16)
10% Monaco (1/10)
13% Juventus (2/15)

PSV and Monaco have never saved a penalty (the one failure against them was a miss). BATE Borisov (9), CSKA Moskva (7), Liverpool (5) and Basel (5) also have 0% records facing spot kicks.

PLAYERS

Most penalties scored

15 Cristiano Ronaldo (18 taken)
11 Lionel Messi (14)
10= Ruud van Nistelrooy (14)
10= Luís Figo (11)
8 Sergio Agüero (11)

Best conversion rate (minimum five pens)

Can Lewi kick it? Yes he can!©Getty Images

100% Robert Lewandowski (7/7)
100% Alessandro Del Piero (7/7)
100% Cesc Fàbregas (5/5)
100% Kaká (5/5)

Worst conversion rate (minimum five pens)

57% Eden Hazard (4/7)
60% Thierry Henry (3/5)
60% Hulk (3/5)
67% Andriy Shevchenko (4/6)
67% Antoine Griezmann (4/6)

Most penalties saved

Petr Čech denies Lionel Messi in 2012©Getty Images

5= Petr Čech (11 faced)
5= Iker Casillas (19)
4= Manuel Neuer (10)
4= Gianluigi Buffon (11)

Selected others: Marc-André ter Stegen 3/5, Joe Hart 3/5, Kevin Trapp 2/4, Jan Oblak 2/2

Casillas has conceded his last eight spot kicks; his last save came on 8 December 2009.

2 penalties scored in one match

19/09/2018 Miralem Pjanić (Valencia 0-2 Juventus)
15/09/2015 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid 4-0 Shakhtar)
21/10/2014 Luiz Adriano (BATE 0-7 Shakhtar)
27/11/2013 Arturo Vidal (Juventus 3-1 FCK)
03/04/2012 Lionel Messi (Barcelona 3-1 AC Milan)
18/10/2011 Wayne Rooney (Oţelul Galaţi 0-2 Man. United)
29/09/2010 Roman Pavlyuchenko (Tottenham 4-1 Twente)
23/11/2005 Levan Kobiashvili (Schalke 3-0 PSV Eindhoven)
20/10/1999 Vladimír Labant (Willem II 3-4 Sparta Praha)
15/09/1999 Andrei Tikhonov (Willem II 1-3 Spartak Moskva)
01/04/1998 Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus 4-1 Monaco)
22/10/1997 Davor Šuker (Real Madrid 5-1 Olympiacos)

Cristiano Ronaldo’s penalties against Shakhtar came in the space of nine second-half minutes. He went the same way (left) each time.

MISCELLANEOUS

First penalty

25/11/1992 Marco van Basten (AC Milan 4-0 IFK Göteborg)

Quickest penalty

1:45 Johan Micoud (Bremen 5-1 Panathinaikos) 07/12/2005
2:08 Gaizka Mendieta (Bayern 1-1 Valencia) 23/05/2001

2001: The

Mendieta’s strike came in the 2001 title decider, known as the “All-penalty final”. Mehmet Scholl had a spot kick saved five minutes later before Stefan Effenberg’s equaliser early in the second half, also a penalty. It was, of course, decided in a shoot-out, Bayern winning 5-4 in sudden death.

Penalty-taking goalkeepers

29/09/2010 Vincent Enyeama (Hapoel Tel-Aviv 1-3 Lyon)
08/12/2009 Jörg Butt (Bayern 4-1 Juventus)
12/03/2002 Jörg Butt (Leverkusen 3-1 Juventus)
13/09/2000 Jörg Butt (Hamburg 3-3 Juventus)

Jörg Butt scored for three different German clubs against Juventus! Sinan Bolat is the only goalkeeper to score a UEFA Champions League goal in open play, a late headed equaliser for Standard Liège against AZ Alkmaar in 2009 earning a UEFA Europa League spot.

PENALTY SHOOT-OUTS

2005 final highlights

22/05/1996 Juventus 4-2 Ajax (final)
23/05/2001 Bayern 5-4 Valencia (final)
28/05/2003 AC Milan 3-2 Juventus (final)
13/04/2005 PSV Eindhoven 4-2 Lyon (quarter-final)
25/05/2005 Liverpool 3-2 AC Milan (final)
01/05/2007 Liverpool 4-1 Chelsea (semi-final)
04/03/2008 Fenerbahçe 3-2 Sevilla (round of 16)
05/03/2008 Schalke 4-1 Porto (round of 16)
21/05/2008 Manchester United 6-5 Chelsea (final)
11/03/2009 Arsenal 7-6 Roma (round of 16)
07/03/2012 APOEL 4-3 Lyon (round of 16)
25/04/2012 Bayern 3-1 Real Madrid (semi-final)
19/05/2012 Chelsea 4-3 Bayern (final)
17/03/2015 Atlético Madrid 3-2 Leverkusen (round of 16)
15/03/2016 Atlético Madrid 8-7 PSV Eindhoven (round of 16)
28/05/2016 Real Madrid 5-3 Atlético Madrid (final)