UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2013/2014 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Anoeta - San Sebastian Tuesday 17 September 2013 20.45 CET (20.45 local time) Real Sociedad Group A - Matchday 1 Shakhtar Donetsk Last updated 16/09/2013 23:53 CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Match facts 5 Squad list 7 Head coach 9 Match officials 10 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 14 Group Standings 16 Competition facts 18 Team facts 19 Legend 21 1 Real Sociedad de Fútbol - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Tuesday 17 September 2013 - 20.45CET, (20.45 local time) Match press kit Anoeta, San Sebastian Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Real Sociedad de Fútbol - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Real Sociedad de Fútbol have not played against a club from their opponents' country FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC 0-1 12/04/2011 QF Donetsk Messi 43 Barcelona agg: 1-6 Iniesta 2, Daniel Alves FC Barcelona - FC Shakhtar 34, Piqué 53, Keita 06/04/2011 QF 5-1 Barcelona Donetsk 61, Xavi Hernández 86; Rakitskiy 60 UEFA Super Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Barcelona - FC Shakhtar 1-0 Pedro Rodríguez 115 28/08/2009 F Monaco Donetsk (aet) ET UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sylvinho 59, Busquets FC Barcelona - FC Shakhtar 09/12/2008 GS 2-3 Barcelona 83; Gladkiy 31, 58, Donetsk Fernandinho 76 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC Ilsinho 45; Messi 87, 01/10/2008 GS 1-2 Donetsk Barcelona 90+4 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Matuzalém 49, Elano 2-3 83; Maresca 53, 15/03/2007 R4 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Sevilla FC Donetsk agg 4-5 (aet) Palop 90+4, Chevantón 105 ET Martí 8(P), Maresca 08/03/2007 R4 Sevilla FC - FC Shakhtar Donetsk 2-2 Seville 88(P); Hübschman 19, Matuzalém 60(P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Jádson 2, FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Valencia Fernandinho 28; 31/10/2006 GS 2-2 Donetsk CF Morientes 18, Ayala 68 Valencia CF - FC Shakhtar 18/10/2006 GS 2-0 Valencia Villa 31, 45 Donetsk 2 Real Sociedad de Fútbol - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Tuesday 17 September 2013 - 20.45CET, (20.45 local time) Match press kit Anoeta, San Sebastian UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC 07/12/2004 GS 2-0 Donetsk Aghahowa 14, 22 Barcelona FC Barcelona - FC Shakhtar Deco 15, Ronaldinho 29/09/2004 GS 3-0 Barcelona Donetsk 64(P), Eto'o 89 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers RC Celta de Vigo - FC Shakhtar 1-0 07/12/2000 R3 Vigo Catanha 28 Donetsk agg: 1-0 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - RC Celta 23/11/2000 R3 0-0 Donetsk de Vigo UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC 1-1 27/09/1978 R1 Donetsk Reznik 1; Krankl 34 Barcelona agg: 1-4 FC Barcelona - FC Shakhtar Krankl 1, Migueli 6, 13/09/1978 R1 3-0 Barcelona Donetsk Tente Sánchez 24 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Real Sociedad de Fútbol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 7 1 3 3 7 1 1 5 1 0 0 1 15 2 4 9 14 28 3 Real Sociedad de Fútbol - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Tuesday 17 September 2013 - 20.45CET, (20.45 local time) Match press kit Anoeta, San Sebastian Match background Real Sociedad de Fútbol kick off their first UEFA Champions League group stage campaign in a decade with a home match against Group A rivals FC Shakhtar Donetsk. • Shakhtar, competing in the group stage for the ninth time, have greater recent European experience but La Real will enter the game on a wave of enthusiasm after their play-off victory over Olympique Lyonnais. • Jagoba Arrasate's men won their first European home fixture since 2004 when beating Lyon 2-0 in the second leg of their play-off to complete a 4-0 aggregate success. They had earned their place in the play-offs by finishing fourth in the 2012/13 Spanish Liga. Match background • This is La Real's first taste of European competition since their debut UEFA Champions League group stage campaign in 2003/04 when they finished second in a group containing Juventus, Galatasaray AŞ and Olympiacos FC before losing to Lyon in the round of 16. • Ukrainian title holders Shakhtar have a recent history of winning starts in European group campaigns. Last season's 2-0 home success against FC Nordsjælland was their fifth matchday one win in their last six UEFA competition campaigns and a fourth from five in the UEFA Champions League. • Last season Shakhtar had mixed fortunes on their travels in the UEFA Champions League. They drew 1-1 at Juventus, won 5-2 at Nordsjælland but lost at both Chelsea FC (2-3) and – in the round of 16 – at Borussia Dortmund (0-3). • Shakhtar lost 5-1 at FC Barcelona on their last visit to Spain in the 2010/11 quarter-finals. Yaroslav Rakitskiy was the scorer for Mircea Lucescu's side who also lost the return leg 1-0 in Donetsk. Besides Rakitskiy, Andriy Pyatov, Tomáš Hübschman, Luiz Adriano, Douglas Costa, Darijo Srna, Alex Teixeira and Eduardo all featured in that heavy defeat at the Camp Nou. • Shakhtar had won 3-2 at Barcelona in the 2008/09 group stage, with Olexandr Gladkiy (2) and Fernandinho scoring to earn the club's first victory on Spanish soil at the sixth attempt. Their overall record away to Liga clubs is W1 D1 L5. • Shakhtar lost the 2009 UEFA Super Cup 1-0 against Barcelona in Monaco. Team ties • Shakhtar's 3-2 win at Barcelona in 2008 was the first time Lucescu had tasted victory in Spain, 35 years after he first visited the country as a player with FC Dinamo Bucureşti. The Romanian's 13 previous trips with club and country have produced seven defeats, five draws and just that one single win. • Lucescu also oversaw Galatasaray's 2-1 triumph against Real Madrid CF in the 2000 UEFA Super Cup. • Dmytro Chygrynskiy became the first Ukrainian to play for Barcelona when he swapped Shakhtar for the Camp Nou in August 2009. He made 12 Liga appearances and another two in the Copa del Rey before returning to Donetsk the following summer. • Carlos Vela and Eduardo were team-mates at Arsenal from 2008 to 2010. They played together four times during 2009/10, with the Mexican coming on to replace Eduardo on another five occasions. • Vela appeared as a 59th-minute substitute in Arsenal's 2-1 loss at Shakhtar in the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League group stage – a match in which Eduardo scored the winning goal. • On 17 September 2008, five years to the day before this fixture, Vela made his UEFA Champions League debut as an 84th-minute substitute in a 1-1 draw at FC Dynamo Kyiv. His first start came in the return fixture which Arsenal won 1-0. • Eduardo lost in Spain as a substitute in Arsenal's 4-1 defeat at Barcelona in the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. • Haris Seferovic played against Fernando in Switzerland's 1-0 friendly win over Brazil in August. 4 Real Sociedad de Fútbol - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Tuesday 17 September 2013 - 20.45CET, (20.45 local time) Match press kit Anoeta, San Sebastian Match facts Real Sociedad UEFA milestones and competition statistics • La Real were eliminated in the round of 16 of the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League – their last appearance in European competition – by Olympique Lyonnais, the side they defeated in a play-off to reach this year's tournament. • The Txuri-urdin's record in European club football's elite competition that season – in which Olympiacos FC, Galatasaray AŞ, Juventus and Lyon provided the opposition – was, P8 W2 D3 L3. Summer transfers • In: Esteban Granero (Queens Park Rangers FC, loan), José Ángel (AS Roma, loan), Haris Seferovic (ACF Fiorentina). • Out: Asier Illarramendi (Real Madrid CF), Joseba Llorente (released). International duty • La Real had three players on senior international duty last week: Claudio Bravo (Chile), Chori Castro (Uruguay) and Haris Seferovic (Switzerland). • Goalkeeper Bravo captained Chile to a 3-0 FIFA World Cup qualifying win at home to Venezuela before playing in the 2-2 friendly draw against Spain in Geneva. • Seferovic played in both of Switzerland's qualifiers, a 4-4 draw at home to Iceland and a 2-0 win in Norway. • Midfielder Rubén Pardo was in the Spain team that defeated Albania 4-0 in the nation's second U21 qualifier. • A UEFA European Under-21 Championship winner with Spain last summer, Iñigo Martínez made his senior international debut in La Roja's friendly victory away to Ecuador last month. He withdrew from the recent squad after suffering a torn thigh against Club Atlético de Madrid. General information • The fourth-placed Liga finish achieved last season – sealed on the last day of the campaign – was the team's highest since they ended the 2002/03 campaign second, two points behind then champions Real Madrid. • Assistant to Philippe Montanier last season, the 35-year-old Jagoba Arrasate replaced the Stade Rennais FC-bound coach in June.