We obtain two useful recurrence relations between diagonal matrix elements for the Klein-Gordon equation with a Coulomb potential. Some explicit expressions of diagonal matrix elements of r k (6 k −6) are presented. The general calculation formulae for off-diagonal matrix elements n 1 l 1 |r k |n 2 l 2 are derived analytically. An important five-term recurrence relation among off-diagonal matrix elements, the analogue to what is known as Blanchard's rule in the non-relativistic Schrödinger equation case, is obtained explicitly.