The key stats: Trophée des Champions

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The history, what’s at stake and the keys to victory! Check out all the stats that count ahead of the Trophée des Champions between Paris Saint-Germain and RC Lens, this Sunday 16 August at 20:45CET at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis.

Sunday will be the second match between Paris and Lens in the Trophée des Champions. On 30 July 1998, Les Rouge et Bleu won 1–0 in Tours, courtesy of a goal by Yann Lachuer.

Paris Saint-Germain and Lens have recorded just four scoreless draws in 95 official meetings.

Paris are on a run of seven consecutive Ligue 1 wins against Lens, following their 3-1 defeat on 1 January 2023.

With 10 wins, Marquinhos holds the record for the most victories in the Trophée des Champions.

Paris’ top scorer against Lens is Mustapha Dahleb, with 11 goals, ahead of François M’Pelé (8 goals), Dominique Rocheteau (7 goals) and Safet Susic (5 goals).

Paris’s 14 wins in the Trophée des Champions is a French record, ahead of Lyon (7 wins). Paris Saint-Germain will also be taking part in their 14th consecutive Trophée des Champions since 2013.

This is the Parisians’ 19th appearance in the Trophée des Champions, having won 14 times and lost four.

36 players have played for both teams: Alphonse Areola, Serge Aurier, Milan Bisevac, 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-Karl Pierre-Fanfan, Thierry Rabat, Bruno Rodriguez, Daniel Xuereb, Christian Zajaczkowski and Pascal Zaremba. Note: Odsonne Edouard never played a competitive match for Paris Saint-Germain’s first team.

The two sides have faced each other 95 times in competitive matches, with the Parisians holding a commanding lead with 48 wins, 22 draws and 25 losses.

167

Lens have conceded 167 goals against the capital club; only three clubs have fared worse than the northerners: Lyon (182 goals), Saint-Étienne (175 goals) and Marseille (171 goals). Lens are equal fourth with Nantes on 167.