Liverpool vs. PSG: Head-to-head record and past meetings before Champions League quarter-final second leg

A couple of Liverpool Champions League eras could draw to an emotional close on Tuesday evening, when the Premier League champions take on holders Paris Saint-Germain in the second leg of their quarter-final tussle at Anfield.

Reds boss Arne Slot went defence-first in last week’s first encounter at the Parc des Princes, although his tactical switch did not exactly pay dividends as Desire Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s goals propelled PSG to a 2-0 victory.

A two-goal deficit is far from unassailable for Liverpool, but if Slot cannot mastermind a mesmerising turnaround, Mohamed Salah, Andrew Robertson and potentially more will have competed in Europe for Liverpool for the last time.

The Premier League holders at least snapped a three-game losing sequence in all tournaments on Saturday with a routine 2-0 victory over Fulham, but PSG enjoyed a complete weekend off, having had their request to postpone their Ligue 1 fixture with Lens granted by the governing body.

Here, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between PSG and Liverpool.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 7

PSG wins: 4

Draws: 0

Liverpool wins: 3

Just one win separates Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool in the head-to-head column, from their seven previous meetings in European competition so far, PSG have claimed four victories compared to Liverpool’s three.

Les Parisiens were responsible for Arne Slot’s Champions League demise in the 2024-25 last 16, as following a 1-1 aggregate draw, the Ligue 1 giants prevailed on penalties as Gianluigi Donnarumma denied Curtis Jones and Darwin Nunez from 12 yards in the second leg.

PSG and Liverpool locked horns once again in the quarter-finals of the 2025-26 Champions League, and the French side again emerged victorious in their first-leg encounter, securing a 2-0 lead to take into the second leg at Anfield.

However, the Reds’ journey to Champions League glory in the 2018-19 season commenced with victory over Thomas Tuchel’s PSG, who visited Anfield for their opening group-stage showdown but came out on the wrong end of a 3-2 scoreline.

Les Parisiens had seemingly done enough for a point as Kylian Mbappe punished Liverpool’s inability to kill the game off, but Roberto Firmino came off the bench to net a last-gasp winner in front of the fervent away crowd.

However, PSG had their revenge a couple of months later, conquering Liverpool 2-1 at the Parc des Princes as the electrifying attack of Edison Cavani, Neymar and Mbappe ran Jurgen Klopp’s backline ragged.

PSG and Liverpool’s 2018-19 Champions League reunion marked just the second time that the two continental giants had met in competitive action, having first crossed paths during the semi-finals of the 1996-97 European Cup Winners’ Cup.

The first-ever meeting between Les Parisiens and the Reds was not much of a contest, as PSG stormed to a 3-0 win in the first leg of that semi-final courtesy of goals from Leonardo, Benoit Cauet and Jerome Leroy.

Roy Evans’s Liverpool threatened an almighty second-leg turnaround at Anfield two weeks later, as Robbie Fowler and Mark Wright breached the Parisiens’ backline, but PSG still prevailed 3-2 on aggregate before losing to Barcelona in the final.

Having netted penalties in both of Liverpool’s clashes with PSG in the 2018-19 season, James Milner is the highest individual scorer in this fixture with two strikes to his name.