* Poland and Greece have not met in a competitive international for more than 25 years, the last such encounter being played in April 1987 when the Greeks won 1-0 in a European Championship qualifier in Athens.

* This is the first time Poland and Greece have met in the finals of a major tournament. The Poles have won three of four meetings with Greece in qualifying groups.

* Hosts Poland are unbeaten in their last five matches leading into the tournament and have clean sheets in all the last four. Since losing at home to France in a friendly almost exactly a year ago, they have lost just one of 11 games.

* Poland have only reached the European Championship finals once before. They qualified for the 2008 tournament in Austria and Switzerland but went out in the group stage without winning a match.

* Greece have not beaten Poland in five meetings, all friendlies, since their 1987 victory in Athens. They have failed to score in the last four.

* Greece, playing in their third Euro finals, were surprise champions on their debut in Portugal in 2004 but went home without a point at the last edition in 2008.

Previous meetings:

22/05/63 Fr Poland 4 Greece 0 Warsaw
16/10/63 Fr Greece 3 Poland 1 Athens
15/05/74 Fr Poland 2 Greece 0 Warsaw
6/05/76 Fr Greece 1 Poland 0 Athens
5/04/78 Fr Poland 5 Greece 2 Poznan
17/10/84 WCQ Poland 3 Greece 1 Zabrze
19/10/85 WCQ Greece 1 Poland 4 Athens
15/10/86 ECQ Poland 2 Greece 1 Poznan
29/04/87 ECQ Greece 1 Poland 0 Athens
5/09/89 Fr Poland 3 Greece 0 Warsaw
19/12/90 Fr Greece 1 Poland 2 Volos
23/03/94 Fr Greece 0 Poland 0 Thessaloniki
29/05/04 Fr Poland 1 Greece 0 Szczecin
12/08/09 Fr Poland 2 Greece 0 Bydgoszcz
29/03/11 Fr Greece 0 Poland 0 Larissa

Head to head:

Played: 15, Poland 10 wins, Greece 3 wins, Draws 2

Key: WCQ = World Cup qualifier, ECQ = European Championship qualifier, Fr = Friendly.

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