Liverpool vs. Atletico Madrid: Head-to-head record and past meetings before Champions League clash

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 9

Draws: 2

Former foes in both the Champions League and Europa League, Liverpool and Atletico Madrid have crossed paths nine times in a competitive setting, and little separates the two European powerhouses in the head-to-head column.

Atleti have three victories while the Reds have four. although three of those triumphs for Liverpool have occurred since 2021.

Jurgen Klopp masterminded a 2-0 victory at Anfield and 3-2 success at the Wanda Metropolitano that year, before the Reds progressed all the way to the showpiece match before being bested by Atletico's city rivals Real Madrid.

Conquering Atletico in the autumn of 2021 saw Liverpool partially avenge an agonising last-16 Champions League exit to Los Rojiblancos the previous season, where a dramatic 3-2 defeat at Anfield - just before the first COVID-19 lockdown - ended their title defence.

Liverpool's most recent clash with the Spanish giants came in the league phase of the 2025-26 Champions League, with the Merseysiders emerging as 3-2 winners in September 2025.

Victory had almost eluded Arne Slot's men given they had squandered a two-goal lead, but Virgil van Dijk's 92nd-minute winner ensured the club's win at Anfield.

The Reds only managed to prevail in one of their first six meetings with Atletico in all competitions, which came in the second leg of their 2009-10 Europa League semi-final - a 2-1 victory after extra time.

However, owing to Diego Forlan's 102nd-minute goal and Atletico's 1-0 victory in the home leg - thanks to another strike from the Uruguayan - the Spanish side reached the final on away goals before edging out Fulham 2-1 in extra time to win the trophy.

The 2008-09 Champions League campaign marked the first-ever competitive battles between the Reds and the Rojiblancos, who played out a pair of 1-1 draws in Group D.

Robbie Keane and Simao were on target in the inaugural meeting in the Spanish capital, before Maxi Rodriguez and Steven Gerrard - the latter of whom netted a last-gasp penalty - struck at Anfield a couple of weeks later.