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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2021/22 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadion Rajko Mitić - Belgrade Thursday 16 September 2021 18.45CET (18.45 local time) FK Crvena zvezda Group F - Matchday 1 SC Braga Last updated 17/09/2021 19:25CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 16 Legend 17 1 FK Crvena zvezda - SC Braga Thursday 16 September 2021 - 18.45CET (18.45 local time) Match press kit Stadion Rajko Mitić, Belgrade Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 19/12/2007 GS SC Braga - FK Crvena zvezda 2-0 Braga Linz 11, Wender 66 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Jaime Júnior 86; 29/09/2005 R1 SC Braga - FK Crvena zvezda Braga agg: 1-1 ag Purović 11 15/09/2005 R1 FK Crvena zvezda - SC Braga 0-0 Belgrade Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FK Crvena zvezda 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 1 3 SC Braga 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 3 1 FK Crvena zvezda - Record versus clubs from opponents' country European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Diamantino 74, Carlos 03/10/1984 R1 SL Benfica - FK Crvena zvezda Lisbon agg: 4-3 Manuel 79 Janjanin 57 (P), 76 19/09/1984 R1 FK Crvena zvezda - SL Benfica 3-2 Belgrade (P), 78; Elsner 26 (og), Diamantino 41 SC Braga - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 03/11/2010 GS FK Partizan - SC Braga 0-1 Belgrade Moisés 35 19/10/2010 GS SC Braga - FK Partizan 2-0 Braga Lima 35, Matheus 90 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FK Crvena zvezda 2 1 1 0 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 4 7 SC Braga 3 2 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 2 0 6 1 2 FK Crvena zvezda - SC Braga Thursday 16 September 2021 - 18.45CET (18.45 local time) Match press kit Stadion Rajko Mitić, Belgrade Match background Two clubs who progressed through the UEA Europa League group stage last season, only to be eliminated in the round of 32, meet in Group F on Matchday 1 of the 2021/22 competition as Crvena zvezda host Braga in Belgrade. Previous meetings • This is the clubs' fourth meeting in UEFA competition. Although Crvena zvezda have yet to beat Braga in any of the previous three encounters, they won their 2005/06 UEFA Cup first round tie on away goals after two draws (0-0 h, 1-1 a). Braga then got the better of the Serbian giants in the group stage of the competition two years later, winning the final fixture 2-0 at home to reach the round of 32 unbeaten as Crvea zvezda were eliminated with a fourth successive defeat. • Crvena zvezda's only other UEFA matches against Portuguese opposition were in the 1984/85 European Cup first round, when they lost to Benfica (3-2 h, 0-2 a). Braga won their only other two games against a Serbian club when they beat Partizan home (2-0) and away (1-0) on their UEFA Champions League group stage debut in 2010/11 – the season in which they would go on to reach the UEFA Europa League final. Form guide Crvena zvezda • A fourth successive Serbian Super Liga title for Crvena zvezda in 2020/21, and second under coach Dejan Stanković, was supplemented by a first victory for nine years in the Serbian Cup as their first domestic double since 2006/07 crowned a season in which they also played a dozen games in Europe, reaching the UEFA Europa League round of 32, where they lost out on away goals to AC Milan (2-2 h, 1-1 a). • Crvena zvezda's bid this season to return to the UEFA Champions League group stage, where they competed in 2018/19 and 2019/20, was thwarted by Moldovan champions Sheriff, who defeated them in the third qualifying round (1-1 h, 0-1 a) after the Belgrade side had beaten Kairat Almaty a round earlier (1-2 a, 5-0 h). CFR Cluj were then convincingly overcome in the UEFA Europa League play-offs (4-0 h, 2-1 a) to secure Crvena zvezda's third appearance in the group stage. They have advanced as runners-up in each of their previous two campaigns, in 2017/18 and 2020/21. • Since losing 0-6 at home to Bayern München on Matchday 5 of the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League, Crvena zvezda have gone eight European games undefeated in Belgrade (W5 D3). Their home record in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final, is W3 D4 L1, with Arsenal (1-0 in 2017/18) the only visitors to have beaten them. Braga • Braga's UEFA Europa League group stage berth, and the club's 17th European qualification in the last 18 years, was achieved on two fronts – with a fourth-placed finish in the 2020/21 Portuguese Liga and a third Portuguese Cup triumph, which they secured with a 2-0 victory over Benfica in the final. Carlos Carvalhal's side also reached the UEFA Europa League round of 32, finishing runners-up in their group to Leicester City on head-to-head record before going out to Roma (0-2 h, 1-3 a). • The team from northern Portugal are competing in the UEFA Europa League group stage for the seventh time – and sixth in the last seven seasons. They have progressed to the knockout phase in six of those campaigns, although their best performance came in that 2010/11 season when they finished as runners-up to local rivals Porto after crossing over mid-season from the UEFA Champions League. • Braga's away record in the UEFA Europa League group stage is W8 D6 L4, with five wins out of six in the past two seasons, the exception a 4-0 defeat at Leicester on Matchday 3 last term – their heaviest at this stage of the competition. Links and trivia • Braga goalkeeper Tiago Sá was the match-winning hero of Portugal's semi-final penalty shoot-out win against a Serbia side featuring Crvena zvezda's Milan Gajić in the 2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Hungary. • Two of Crvena zvezda coach Stanković's 103 senior international caps were won against Portugal, both as captain, as his Serbia side drew 1-1 in both qualifying matches for UEFA EURO 2008. • Crvena zvezda are one of four former European Cup/UEFA Champions League winners competing in this season's UEFA Europa League group stage – together with PSV Eindhoven (Group B), their defeated 1991 final opponents Marseille (E), and Celtic (G). • The Serbian club are one of eight reigning domestic champions involved in the 2021/22 UEFA Europa League group stage, while they and Braga are two of six current domestic cup winners in the field. 3 FK Crvena zvezda - SC Braga Thursday 16 September 2021 - 18.45CET (18.45 local time) Match press kit Stadion Rajko Mitić, Belgrade Team facts FK Crvena zvezda Formed: 1945 Nickname: Crveno-beli (Red-and-Whites) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Cup (1): 1991 • UEFA Cup: (1979) • UEFA Super Cup: (1991) • European/South American Cup (1): 1991 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 32 (2021) National cup: 25 (2021) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2020/21: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2019/20: UEFA Champions League group stage 2018/19: UEFA Champions League group stage 2017/18: round of 32 2016/17: play-offs (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2015/16: first qualifying round 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2013/14: third qualifying round 2012/13: play-offs 2011/12: play-offs Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 9-1: Crvena zvezda v Stade Dudelange 02/10/57, European Cup preliminary round second leg • Biggest away win 2-7: Komlói Bányász v Crvena zvezda 15/09/71, European Cup Winners' Cup first round first leg 1-6: Avenir Beggen v Crvena zvezda 22/10/74, European Cup Winners' Cup second round first leg 0-5 twice, most recently v Dundalk 07/09/88, European Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-6: Crvena zvezda v Bayern München 26/11/19, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Paris Saint-German v Crvena zvezda 03/10/18, UEFA Champions League group stage 5-0 twice, most recently v Tottenham 22/10/19, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 7-0 twice, most recently v Ventspils 04/08/11, third qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-4: Kolkheti Poti v Crvena zvezda 22/07/98, first qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-2: Crvena zvezda v Kairat Almaty 20/07/15, first qualifying round first leg 4 FK Crvena zvezda - SC Braga Thursday 16 September 2021 - 18.45CET (18.45 local time) Match press kit Stadion Rajko Mitić, Belgrade • Heaviest away defeat 4-0 four times, most recently v Rennes 25/08/11, play-offs second leg SC Braga Formed: 1921 Nickname: Os Arsenalistas (The Arsenal fans) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Europa League: (2011) • UEFA Intertoto Cup (1): 2008 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) Portuguese Cup: 3 (2021) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2020/21: round of 32 2019/20: round of 32 2018/19: third qualifying round 2017/18: round of 32 2016/17: group stage 2015/16: quarter-finals 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition 2013/14: play-offs 2012/13: UEFA Champions League group stage 2011/12: round of 32 Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Braga v Hibernians 13/09/78, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Biggest away win 2-4 three times, most recently v AEK Athens 03/12/20, UEFA Europa League group stage 1-3: Birmingham City v Braga 15/09/11, UEFA Europa League group stage 0-2 twice, most recently v Galatasaray 02/10/12, UEFA Champions League