Euro kings Real Madrid are closing in on a century old Celtic record as Welsh minnows TNS threaten to topple another historic Hoops milestone.
The Spanish giants made it 40 matches unbeaten in all competitions after a 3-3 Copa del Rey thriller against Sevilla at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan.
And that draw saw Los Blancos break the Spanish record set by bitter La Liga rivals Barcelona last season for a sequence of games without defeat.
But Zinedine Zidane’s men are still a long way off the benchmark in Europe set by Celtic exactly 100 years ago when they went 62 games undefeated.
That incredible run even included TWO games in ONE day with all fixtures coming in the league, the same as Belgian side Union SG who managed a 60-match run.
Benfica’s run of 48 games from December 1963 until February 1965 is the best since the advent of European competition with the legendary Eusebio part of that great side.
Celtic also hold the British record for successive league wins when Martin O’Neill led the Hoops to 25 victories on the spin in the 2003/04 season.
But runaway Welsh Premier League leaders The New Saints need just four more wins - starting with today’s trip to Newtown - to surpass that and will then target Benfica’s European record of 29 league wins.
Uefa's unbeaten runs in competitive top-level matches
62: Celtic (SCO) 1915–17
60: Union SG (BEL) 1933–35
48: Benfica (POR) 1963–65
45: Dinamo Zagreb (CRO) 2014–15
43: Juventus (ITA) 2011–12
42= Ajax (NED) 1995–96
42= Milan (ITA) 1991–92
40= Nottingham Forest (ENG) 1978
40= Real Madrid (ESP) 2016–17