UEFA Group B – Everything you need to know

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The national football associations of Europe make up UEFA, which also manages prize money, rules, and media rights for national and club competitions. The UEFA Nations League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, and UEFA Super Cup comes under it. Here is what you need to know about UEFA Group B.

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Summary about the UEFA Group B

UEFA Group B has Club Brugge, Bayer Leverkusen, Atletico Madrid and FC Porto. As of now, Club Brugge is leading the group with highest point.

Bayer Leverkusen and Atletico Madrid has the same number of points in the current group stage. FC Porto has not yet scored with any point and hence has a low ranking.

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Atletico Madrid

Club Atletico Madrid is among one of the teams from Spain. It is a Spanish Football club based in Madrid and plays in La Liga. They are the third most successful club in Spain behind Real Madrid and Barcelona.

The team has won La Liga on eleven occasions. They were also the UEFA Champions League runner ups during the year 1974, 2014 and 2016. Let’s see if whether the team can push up its ranking and win this season.

Team Statistics – Champions League 2022
Goals2
Passing accuracy 85%
Clean sheets0
Yellow cards2
Red cards0
Top scorerAxel Witsel

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UEFA Group B Top scorer – Club Brugge

Club Brugge KV is a Belgium based club. The club have won Belgian League champions up to 18 times. Throughout its history they achieved quite a lot European success.

Brugge FC is the only Belgian club to reach European finals and semi-finals. In the current UEFA Champions League, they are standing on top of the UEFA Group B. They have 6 points with no match lost up till now.

Team Statistics – Champions League 2022
Goals5
Passing accuracy 81.5%
Clean sheets2
Yellow cards5
Red cards0
Top scorerHans Vanaken

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Bayer Leverkusen

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Bayer 04 Leverkusen is a club based in Leverkusen. The team plays its home games in the BayArena and competes in the Bundesliga, the top division of German football.

A record in German football belongs to Bayer Leverkusen, who have finished second in the Bundesliga five times without taking first place. One DFB-Pokal and one UEFA Cup have been won by the club.

In addition, Bayer came in second place in the 2001–2002 UEFA Champions League after losing the championship match to Real Madrid 2-1. They have 1 local competitor. FC Köln.

Team Statistics – Champions League 2022
Goals2
Passing accuracy 84.5%
Clean sheets1
Yellow cards6
Red cards0
Top scorerEdmond Tapsoba

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FC PortoUEFA Group B

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Futebol Clube do Porto is a Portuguese group and commonly known as FC Porto. This club is among the successful group with approximately 82 major trophies.

At the international level, the club has been a winner of UEFA Champions League in 1987 and 2004. Porto is the only club to have won the Europa League. They also have the third most appearance in the UEFA. Although the team is still standing on the lowest in group ranking but they still have time to score high.

Team Statistics – Champions League 2022
Goals1
Passing accuracy 82%
Clean sheets0
Yellow cards6
Red cards1
Top scorerMateus Uribe

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