The key numbers: Paris v. Lens

Men's football•14 Sep 2025 13:00

Check out the key numbers ahead of the game between Paris Saint-Germain and RC Lens, which kicks off at 17:15 CET today (Matchday 4 of Ligue 1) at the Parc des Princes.

Two players have managed to score a hat trick for Paris against Lens: François M’Pelé (in a 3-0 win in the last 16 of the Coupe de France at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis on 28th February 1976) and Laurent Leroy (in a 4-1 win in Ligue 1 at the Parc des Princes on 14th April 2000).

Les Parisiens will be aiming to make it four wins from their opening four games of the 2025–2026 Ligue 1 season, having at the very least equalled this feat in seven previous campaigns: 1985–1986 (4/4), 1992–1993 (4/4), 2015–2016 (4/4), 2017–2018 (6/6), 2018–2019 (14/14), 2021–2022 (8/8) and 2024–2025 (4/4).

Paris and Lens have drawn 0-0 with each other in just four of their 93 competitive meetings.

Les Rouge et Bleu are currently on a five-game winning streak against Les Sang et Or in the league, having beaten them 3-1 at home in 2022–2023, 3-1 at home and 2-0 away in 2023–2024 and 1-0 at home and 2-1 away last season, which is the capital club’s longest-ever run of league victories against Lens.

Paris Saint-Germain’s top scorer against Lens is Mustapha Dahleb, whose 11 goals place him ahead of the aforementioned François M’Pelé (eight goals scored), Dominique Rocheteau (seven goals scored) and Safet Sušić (five goals scored).

Les Parisiens are unbeaten in their last 11 competitive fixtures against Les Lensois at the Parc des Princes, with eight wins and three draws recorded in that time.

36 players have plied their trade for both teams: Alphonse Areola, Serge Aurier, Milan Biševac, Jules Bocandé, François Brisson, Zoumana Camara, Clément Chantôme, Charles-Édouard Coridon, Éric Cubilier, Stéphane Dalmat, Frédéric Déhu, Jean Deloffre, Nicolas Douchez, Pierre-Alain Frau, Bernard Héréson, Arnaud Kalimuendo, Bonaventure Kalou, Bernard Lama, Loïck Landre, Nicolas Laspalles, Ronan Le Crom, Jérôme Leroy, Danijel Ljuboja, Patrice Marquet, Jean-Eudes Maurice, François M’Pelé, William N’Jo Léa, Pascal Nouma, Alex Nyarko, Stéphane Pédron, José Pierre-Fanfan, Thierry Rabat, Bruno Rodriguez, Daniel Xuereb, Christian Zajaczkowski and Pascal Zaremba. Trained at Paris Saint-Germain and a Lens player since this summer, Odsonne Édouard has played neither for the capital club’s first team nor for that of RC Lens.

These two teams have faced each other in 93 competitive fixtures, with the head-to-head record sitting firmly in Paris’s favour: 46 wins, 22 draws and 25 losses.

Les Lensois have let in 96 goals at the Parc des Princes, with only one club having shipped more than 100 goals in competitive fixtures away to Paris: AS Saint-Étienne (111 goals conceded).

163

Across all of their competitive encounters with the capital club’s men’s team, the northerners have let in a total of 163 goals. Only four teams have a worse defensive record against Paris: Lyon (178 goals conceded), Saint-Étienne (175 goals conceded), Nantes (164 goals conceded) and Marseille (also 164 goals conceded).

Rai v Lens (2-0), 25/10/1997

Michel Kollarmichelkollar

The key numbers: Paris v. Lens

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