Sturm Graz vs Bodo/Glimt Preview & Prediction | 2025-26 UEFA Champions League | Playoffs

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Austrian champions Sturm Graz have endured a tough start to this season, and they pretty much already been blown away in the UEFA Champions League playoff round.

Kick-off date/time: 26 August 2025 at 8:00 pm

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Key Stats

• Sturm Graz need to equal their record margin of victory in a UEFA match to have a chance of qualifying for the league phase. Their biggest wins in European competition are 5-0 against both FC Rànger's (Andorra) in the Intertoto Cup first round second leg in June 2005 and OFK Petrovac (Montenegro) in the third qualifying round of the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League
• Sturm Graz last featured in the UEFA Champions League play-off round in 2011/12 when they lost 1-3 on aggregate against BATE Borisov (1-1 a, 0-2 h).
• Sturm Graz have lost their last four ties in UEFA Champions League qualifying.
• Sturm Graz are aiming for a second successive appearance in the league phase of the UEFA Champions League – they qualified automatically in 2024/25. Their previous three participations in the competition proper were in consecutive seasons from 1998/99 to 2000/01
• Bodø/Glimt are aiming to reach the UEFA Champions League proper for the first time. They could become only the third Norwegian team to do so after Rosenborg (11 times) and Molde (once).
• The last time a Norwegian team featured in the group stage/league phase was in 2007/08 (Rosenborg).
• In last season’s UEFA Europa League, Bodø/Glimt became the first Norwegian team to reach the semi-finals of a UEFA senior men's club competition
• Bodø/Glimt lost in their previous two appearances in the UEFA Champions League play-off round, most recently last season when they were defeated 2-3 on aggregate against Crvena Zvezda (2-1h, 0-2 a).
• Bodø/Glimt have lost their last four UEFA competition matches away from home.
• Bodø/Glimt have only lost two UEFA competition matches by a five-goal (or more) margin. They lost 5-0 at home against Werder Bremen in the first round first leg of a 1999/2000 UEFA Cup tie and 5-0 away at Inter in the second round of the 1978/79 Cup Winners’ Cup.

Sturm Graz vs Bodo/Glimt prediction

Sturm Graz come into this one on the back of a week off in the Austrian Bundesliga, where they have begun the defence of their title with two victories and a defeat. They now face a Bodo/Glimt side that also had a week off from the Eliteserien, where they currently sit at the top-of-the-table, above Viking on goal difference after 19 matches.

In the first-leg of this UEFA Champions League playoff round tie, Bodo/Glimt annihilated Sturm Graz by five goals to nil at the Aspmyra Stadion in the Arctic Circle last weekend. Kasper Hogh, Odin Luras Bjortuft and Uli Saltnes gave them a 3-0 lead inside 25 minutes, before Hakon Evjen and a William Boving own goal completed the rout.

Sturm Graz will want to restore some pride and be tougher to play against with home advantage, but Bodo/Glimt should complete a two-legged victory in Austria this week.

Sturm Graz vs Bodo/Glimt tip: Bodo/Glimt to win & both teams to score