UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2021/22 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 1-2) Brøndby Stadion - Brondby Wednesday 25 August 2021 Brøndby IF 21.00CET (21.00 local time) FC Salzburg Play-off, Second leg Last updated 15/09/2021 16:35CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Squad list 5 Match officials 7 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 10 Team facts 11 Legend 13 1 Brøndby IF - FC Salzburg Wednesday 25 August 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Brøndby Stadion, Brondby Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Adeyemi 56, 17/08/2021 PO FC Salzburg - Brøndby IF 2-1 Salzburg Aaronson 90; Uhre 4 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Brøndby IF 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 FC Salzburg 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 Brøndby IF - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kristiansen 40, Krohn- 4-2 Dehli 45 (P), Akharraz 04/08/2011 QR3 Brøndby IF - SV Ried Brondby agg: 4-4 ag 53, 55; Royer 71, Hadžić 88 28/07/2011 QR3 SV Ried - Brøndby IF 2-0 Ried-innkreis Mader 32, Royer 46 FC Salzburg - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Mané 19, 63, Kampl 12/12/2013 GS FC Salzburg - Esbjerg fB 3-0 Salzburg 58 03/10/2013 GS Esbjerg fB - FC Salzburg 1-2 Esbjerg Diouf 89; Alan 6, 38 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Brøndby IF 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 5 6 FC Salzburg 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 7 2 2 Brøndby IF - FC Salzburg Wednesday 25 August 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Brøndby Stadion, Brondby Match background Having let slip an early advantage at Salzburg, Brøndby welcome the Austrian champions to Denmark looking to overturn a 2-1 first-leg deficit as their UEFA Champions League play-off concludes. • Mikael Uhre gave Brøndby a fourth-minute lead in Salzburg on 17 August, but second-half strikes from Karim Adeyemi (56) and, in the 90th minute, Brenden Aaronson turned the tie in favour of a Salzburg side bidding to earn a third successive group stage appearance. • That was both clubs' first European engagement of 2021/22. It was also the sides' first fixture, and only a second pairing with a team from their opponents' country for each. Form guide Brøndby • Brøndby's only previous UEFA Champions League group stage appearance came in 1998/99, when they finished fourth in a section involving eventual winners Manchester United, Bayern München – who went on to lose to United in the final at the Camp Nou – and Barcelona. They lost both games against United (2-6 h, 0-5 a) and Barcelona (0-2 h, 0-2 a) and also went down 2-0 in Munich, having started with a 2-1 home victory against Bayern thanks to Allan Ravn's 89th-minute winner. • The defeat at Parken Stadium by United remains their heaviest home loss in UEFA competition. • Brøndby were Danish champions for the 11th time in 2020/21, their first championship success since 2004/05. • This is Brøndby's first UEFA Champions League campaign since they lost 5-3 on aggregate to Ajax in the 2005/06 third qualifying round – their sixth qualifying loss in the competition and their fourth since that sole group appearance. • That 2005/06 season was also the last campaign in which Brøndby were involved in a European group stage – in the UEFA Cup, a competition in which they reached the semi-finals back in 1990/91, their most successful continental campaign. • Brøndby were not involved in UEFA club competition in 2020/21; their most recent campaign, in 2019/20, ended in the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round with a 7-3 aggregate defeat by Portuguese side Braga. • Having lost 4-2 at home and 3-1 away to Braga, the defeat at Salzburg means Brøndby have been beaten in seven of their last nine European games, winning the other two. • Brøndby have lost only three of their last 15 home European fixtures (W7 D5) but have been defeated in nine of the last ten away (W1) including all of the last five. • Brøndby have faced Austrian opponents only once before this tie, losing on away goals to Ried in the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round (0-2 a, 4-2 h). • Brøndby have won only four of the 18 UEFA ties in which they were beaten away in the first leg, although they did triumph in the most recent, against Lechia Gdańsk in the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round (1-2 a, 4-1 h aet). That was one of three ties in which the Danish side lost 2-1 in the away first leg; they also beat Schalke in the 2003/04 UEFA Cup second round (2-1 h, 3-1 pens) but lost to Widzew Łódź in the 1996/97 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round (3-2 h, lost on away goals). They have therefore won all three second legs after losing 2-1 away. • Brøndby's record in four penalty shoot-outs in UEFA competition is W3 L1: 0-3 v Sportul Studenţesc, 1987/88 UEFA Cup second round 4-2 v Torpedo Moskva, 1990/91 UEFA Cup quarter-final 3-1 v Schalke, 2003/04 UEFA Cup second round 5-3 v Hibernian, 2016/17 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round Salzburg • Salzburg are looking to secure a third successive group stage campaign. They were third in their section behind Liverpool and Napoli in 2019/20, having qualified automatically to make their first group appearance since 1994. • In 2020/21, Salzburg beat Maccabi Tel-Aviv in the play-offs before again finishing third in their group, picking up four points in Group A. They lost both games against Bayern München and Atlético de Madrid, but won 3-1 at Lokomotiv Moskva after a 2-2 home draw to finish ahead of the Russian club. • A side coached by Jesse Marsch therefore moved into the UEFA Europa League, where they lost 2-0 at home and 2-1 away against eventual winners Villarreal in the round of 32. It was the second successive European campaign in which Salzburg had been eliminated at that stage following their 2019/20 loss against Eintracht Frankfurt (1-4 a, 2-2 h). 3 Brøndby IF - FC Salzburg Wednesday 25 August 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Brøndby Stadion, Brondby • Salzburg won 5-2 on aggregate against Maccabi in last season's play-offs (2-1 a, 3-1 h) to end a run of 13 successive eliminations in UEFA Champions League qualifying since their first group stage appearance in 1994/95. • Their record in UEFA Champions League play-offs is now W1 L5, the most recent defeat on away goals to Crvena zvezda in 2018/19 (0-0 a, 2-2 h). At the same stage of the UEFA Europa League it is W3 L1, their solitary defeat coming on penalties against Dinamo Minsk in 2015/16. • Salzburg are currently level with Sturm Graz on three group stage appearances, a joint Austrian record. • Marsch left Salzburg to join RB Leipzig in the summer after two years in the post; he has been succeeded by German-born Matthias Jaissle, who returns to Salzburg after six months in charge of Liefering having been Salzburg's Under-18 coach between 2019 and January 2021. • The Austrian club won an eighth successive Bundesliga title in 2020/21 – their 15th overall – adding the Austrian Cup to complete a hat-trick of domestic doubles and an eighth in total, all in the last ten seasons. • Salzburg's sole previous experience of Danish opposition came with two victories against Esbjerg in the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League group stage, Alan scoring twice in a 2-1 success in Denmark and Sadio Mané getting two in a 3-0 win back in Austria. • Salzburg have won 11 of the 17 UEFA competition ties in which they were victorious in the home first leg, most recently defeating Shkëndija in the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round (3-0 h, 1-0 a). However, they have lost both ties in which they triumphed 2-1 at home in the first game – against Malmö in the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League play-offs (0-3 a) and Crvena zvezda in the 1976/77 UEFA Cup second round (0-1 a, lost on away goals). • Salzburg's record in two UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W1 L1: 5-4 v Eintracht Frankfurt, 1993/94 UEFA Cup quarter-final 2-3 v Dinamo Minsk, 2015/16 UEFA Europa League play-off Links and trivia • Salzburg coach Jaissle worked at Brøndby as assistant coach between 1 July 2017 and 30 June 2019. • Brøndby coach Niels Frederiksen was in charge of Esbjerg for those 2013 UEFA Europa League defeats against Salzburg. • Brøndby's Josip Radošević spent 2016/17 with Salzburg, where his team-mates included Alex Walke, Andreas Ulmer and Mërgim Berisha.