Two matches were played in Europe’s top flights on Monday, October 26, 2026, and both home sides won 2-0. Sevilla beat Osasuna at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium in La Liga, and Paris Saint-Germain beat Lyon at the Parc des Princes in Ligue 1. Every final score, what each result changes in the standings, and the context behind the day are below.
All final scores for Monday, October 26, 2026
This table gives the direct answer for anyone searching football results for 2026-10-26. It lists the complete Monday card from the two leagues in this roundup, with the final status and venue of each game as recorded when we pulled the data on October 27.
| Competition | Home | Score | Away | Status | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Liga | Sevilla | 2-0 | Osasuna | FT | Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium |
| Ligue 1 | Paris Saint-Germain | 2-0 | Lyon | FT | Parc des Princes |
We have deliberately kept this report to the confirmed final scores. We do not list goalscorers, minutes or individual incidents here, because a daily scores page is only useful if every line in it can be trusted. Readers who want the play-by-play should go to the official match centres of La Liga and the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), which publish verified lineups and event data after the final whistle.
The three stories of the day
1. PSG shut out Lyon in one of French football’s biggest fixtures
PSG against Lyon is one of the heavyweight dates on the Ligue 1 calendar. It pits the dominant club of the modern era against the club that won seven consecutive French titles between 2002 and 2008. A 2-0 home win means Paris took the maximum three points without conceding.
For PSG, the clean sheet carries as much weight as the margin. Lyon arrived as one of the league’s traditional attacking sides, and holding them scoreless at the Parc des Princes points to a home side in control of the game rather than one that had to survive spells of pressure. This is a reading of the scoreline, not of the match footage. A 2-0 can hide a lot, so we would not claim more about how the game unfolded without the official match data.
The result also adds to PSG’s standing as the side every Ligue 1 club measures itself against. That standing grew when the club won its first UEFA Champions League title in May 2025, beating Inter 5-0 in the final in Munich. That night remains the record margin of victory in a European Cup final.
2. Sevilla bank a two-goal win and a clean sheet against Osasuna
In Andalusia, Sevilla closed their Monday night at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán with a 2-0 win over Osasuna. A home win by two goals with nothing conceded is close to the ideal Monday result for any La Liga side, because it adds three points and improves goal difference at the same stroke.
That second part matters more in Spain than in many other leagues. La Liga ranks teams level on points by their head-to-head record first, so overall goal difference only comes into play once the head-to-head record has been exhausted. Even so, a +2 swing in October is the kind of small margin that can separate sides in a congested mid-table by May, especially when the head-to-head games end level.
Osasuna travel back to Pamplona with nothing to show for the trip and a -2 goal difference swing. For a club whose identity has long rested on being hard to beat, conceding twice without scoring away from El Sadar is a result they will want to correct quickly.
3. A perfect Monday for home sides: two from two, zero goals conceded
The broader story is the symmetry of the day. Both matches finished 2-0 to the home side, which gives us a Monday with four goals, two home wins, no draws, no away goals and two clean sheets.
Two games are far too small a sample to say anything meaningful about home advantage across Spain and France this season. We include the numbers because they describe the day accurately, and because a quick summary of this kind is useful for readers tracking the week. The full weekend picture is in our separate roundups for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 23 to 25, and Monday serves as the closing chapter of that run of fixtures.
| Monday, October 26 by the numbers | Figure |
|---|---|
| Matches played (La Liga and Ligue 1) | 2 |
| Total goals | 4 |
| Goals per game | 2.0 |
| Home wins / draws / away wins | 2 / 0 / 0 |
| Clean sheets | 2 (both home sides) |
| Most common scoreline | 2-0 (both matches) |
Ref's note
A clean sheet is credited to a team, not only to its goalkeeper, and it only counts if the team concedes nothing during the full match, including stoppage time. Goals in a penalty shootout do not affect it, though no shootouts happen in league play anyway.
La Liga results: Monday, October 26, 2026
| Result | Status | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Sevilla 2-0 Osasuna | FT | Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium |
Sevilla 2-0 Osasuna. Sevilla took all three points at home and kept a clean sheet, while Osasuna leave with a defeat and a two-goal dent in their goal difference.
What it means for the La Liga table
La Liga awards three points for a win, one for a draw and none for a defeat, so Monday’s result moves Sevilla up three points and leaves Osasuna where they were before kickoff. Without standings verified as of the final whistle, we will not quote exact positions. The mechanics of the change are still clear:
- Sevilla: +3 points, +2 goal difference, +2 goals scored, one more clean sheet.
- Osasuna: +0 points, -2 goal difference, +2 goals conceded.
- Head-to-head: Sevilla now hold the advantage in the season series between the two clubs. That record becomes the first tiebreaker if they finish level on points, unless the reverse fixture in Pamplona overturns it.
That last point is the one most often missed in Spain. Because La Liga uses head-to-head before overall goal difference, Monday’s result is effectively a mini-tiebreaker stored away for May. If Osasuna win the return game by exactly two goals, the head-to-head goal difference would be level, and the tie would then move on to further criteria.
How La Liga separates teams level on points
- Points won in the matches between the tied teams.
- Goal difference in those head-to-head matches.
- Overall goal difference across the season.
- Overall goals scored.
- Fair-play points, as set out in the competition rules.
Why La Liga plays on a Monday
La Liga regularly closes a matchday with a Monday evening fixture. The league spreads its ten games across several days to give broadcasters separate time slots, and to give clubs that played in midweek European competition more time to recover. For fans abroad the Monday game works as a standalone event, since it rarely clashes with the Premier League, Serie A or the Bundesliga.
For readers in the United States, one timing detail made this Monday different. Europe ended summer time on Sunday, October 25, 2026, while the US does not change its clocks until Sunday, November 1. For that one week, Spain and France run five hours ahead of New York instead of the usual six, and every European kickoff arrives an hour earlier than normal on the East Coast. Fans who missed the start of either Monday game may find that clock change to blame.
Ligue 1 results: Monday, October 26, 2026
| Result | Status | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 Lyon | FT | Parc des Princes |
Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 Lyon. PSG won a marquee fixture by two clear goals at home and did not concede, which is as complete a result as the scoreline allows. Lyon leave Paris without points and with a -2 goal difference swing.
What it means for the Ligue 1 table
Ligue 1 has had 18 clubs since the 2023-24 season, down from 20, which means each team plays 34 league games rather than 38. With fewer rounds to recover ground, a defeat in October weighs slightly more in France than the same defeat does in Spain. Lyon will feel that after Monday.
- PSG: +3 points, +2 goal difference, +2 goals scored, one more clean sheet.
- Lyon: +0 points, -2 goal difference, +2 goals conceded.
- The tiebreak angle: Ligue 1 ranks teams level on points by overall goal difference before head-to-head records. Those two goals therefore count straight away in any tie with any club, not only in a tie with each other.
That difference in tiebreak order between the two leagues is easy to overlook, so it is worth setting the two side by side.
| Tiebreak step | La Liga | Ligue 1 |
|---|---|---|
| First criterion after points | Head-to-head points | Overall goal difference |
| Does overall goal difference count early? | Only after head-to-head | Yes, immediately |
| What Monday’s 2-0 does for the winner | Banks a head-to-head edge over the opponent | Improves standing against every club |
| Matches per team per season | 38 (20 clubs) | 34 (18 clubs) |
Common myth
Many fans assume every league uses goal difference first. La Liga does not. Two Spanish teams level on points are separated by their meetings with each other before overall goal difference is ever checked.
The places that matter in an 18-team Ligue 1
With 18 clubs, the cut-off points in France fall close together. The bottom two are relegated automatically, and the club in 16th place goes into a play-off against a Ligue 2 side to keep its place. At the top, the number of Champions League places depends on France’s standing in the UEFA coefficient, so that line shifts from season to season. Each win in late October therefore counts toward European qualification and toward avoiding relegation, depending on where a club sits.
Lyon will not take any conclusion about their season from one defeat away to the champions-elect of most preseason predictions. They will, however, want to avoid a run in which games like this one start to pile up, because a short calendar leaves less time for a correction.
The venues: two of Europe’s best-known home grounds
Both of Monday’s winners played in front of their own crowds, in two of the most recognisable stadiums in their countries.
| Stadium | Club | City | Opened | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán | Sevilla | Seville | 1958 | Named after a former club president; hosted the 1986 European Cup final |
| Parc des Princes | Paris Saint-Germain | Paris | 1972 (current structure) | PSG’s home since 1974; hosted European Cup finals and France internationals |
The Sánchez Pizjuán has a reputation as one of La Liga’s most intimidating grounds on European and big domestic nights. It hosted the 1986 European Cup final, in which Steaua București beat Barcelona on penalties. The Parc des Princes, in the 16th arrondissement on the western edge of Paris, was France’s main national stadium until the Stade de France opened for the 1998 World Cup. Its steep, enclosed stands keep crowd noise close to the pitch, which helps explain its reputation as a hard place for visiting teams.
How we compiled these results
We built this report from final scores recorded on October 27, 2026, the morning after the games, so that every result reflects the full 90 minutes plus stoppage time. Under Law 7 of the IFAB Laws of the Game, a match lasts two equal halves of 45 minutes. The referee adds time lost to substitutions, injuries, VAR checks and other stoppages, and goals scored in that added time count exactly like any other.
We have not covered individual refereeing decisions or VAR interventions from Monday’s two matches, because we only report incidents we can confirm from official sources. If you want to understand how video review works in these leagues, both La Liga and Ligue 1 use the IFAB VAR protocol. It limits reviews to four match-changing situations: goals, penalty decisions, direct red cards and mistaken identity. Our separate explainer on the meaning of VAR goes through the protocol step by step.
Ref's note
A goal disallowed after a VAR review never counts toward the score, even if the stadium celebrated it for a full minute. The official final scores above already reflect any decisions overturned on review.
Monday in the context of the week
Monday, October 26 closed a busy stretch of European football that began with Champions League nights on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 20 and 21, and continued with Europa League football on Thursday, October 22. Domestic leagues followed from Friday to Sunday. Coming after a full weekend, a two-match Monday is light, but each of these matches carried weight: one of Ligue 1’s biggest fixtures in Paris and a closing La Liga match that affects the middle of the Spanish table.
For readers keeping a running record of the season, the key takeaways from Monday are:
- Home sides were perfect: two wins from two, no goals conceded.
- Both winners now hold an advantage over their opponent: in Spain through the head-to-head record, in France through overall goal difference.
- Both losers took a -2 goal difference swing, which matters more in a 34-game Ligue 1 season than in a 38-game La Liga season.
- The clocks matter for US viewers: the gap between Europe’s and North America’s clock changes moved European kickoffs an hour earlier on the US East Coast for the week.
FAQ
What were the football results on October 26, 2026?
In La Liga, Sevilla beat Osasuna 2-0 at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium. In Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain beat Lyon 2-0 at the Parc des Princes. Both matches finished full time (FT), with no draws and no away goals.
How many goals were scored in La Liga and Ligue 1 on Monday, October 26?
Four goals were scored across the two matches, two in each game, all by the home sides. Neither Osasuna nor Lyon scored, so both winners kept a clean sheet.
Who scored the goals in Sevilla vs Osasuna and PSG vs Lyon?
We have not listed scorers or goal times in this roundup, because we only publish match details we can verify. The official La Liga and LFP match centres publish confirmed scorers, assists and minutes for both games.
Does the 2-0 win change Sevilla’s position in the La Liga table?
The win adds three points and +2 to Sevilla’s goal difference. It also gives them the head-to-head advantage over Osasuna, which is La Liga’s first tiebreaker. Exact table positions depend on the other results from the matchday, so check the official standings for the current order.
Why does goal difference matter more for PSG than for Sevilla?
Ligue 1 separates teams level on points by overall goal difference first, so PSG’s two-goal margin improves their position against every rival straight away. La Liga uses head-to-head results first, so Sevilla’s margin mainly counts in any tie with Osasuna until the head-to-head criteria run out.
Why were European games on earlier than usual in the United States that week?
Europe switched off summer time on October 25, 2026, but the US did not change its clocks until November 1, 2026. For that week, Spain and France were five hours ahead of New York instead of six, so European kickoffs started an hour earlier than usual on the East Coast.
