Russia have won all four UEFA European Championship meetings against Greece and will be seeking to continue that proud record as the teams meet for the third successive final tournament in Warsaw.

Head-to-head record
• Russia were victorious against Greece in the group stage of both UEFA EURO 2004 and UEFA EURO 2008.

• Greece also lost twice in qualifying for EURO '96, going down 3-0 in Salonika on 26 April 1995 and 2-1 in Moscow on 11 October.

• Although they have won only one of ten previous fixtures between the sides, Greece are unbeaten in their two FIFA World Cup fixtures with Russia. In Athens on 17 November 1993, Nikos Machlas (68) earned the 1-0 win which meant both teams reached the finals for the first time. The earlier match, in Moscow on 23 May 1993, ended 1-1; Igor Dobrovolski (72, penalty) and Anastassios Mitropoulos (45) were the scorers.

• All four friendlies have ended level, Igor Kolyvanov earning Russia a 1-1 draw in Athens on 18 February 1998 after Kostas Frantzeskos had given the home team an early lead.

• The next, in Heraklion, Crete, on 28 February 2001 ended 3-3; Angelos Charisteas marked his international debut with two first-half goals before Angelos Basinas ensured it was honours even with a 90th-minute penalty equaliser; Maksim Buznikin (2) and Dmitri Khokhlov were the Russian scorers.

• In Moscow on 15 August 2001, a third friendly ended goalless, while their most recent meeting in Piraeus last year was a 1-1 draw.

• Greece's record in 11 meetings with the Soviet Union was W2 D0 L9 F4 A 25.

Selected previous meetings
11 November 2011: Russia 1-1 Greece (Katsouranis 60; Shirokov 2) – Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus, friendly
Greece: Tzorvas, Torossidis, Holebas, Papadopoulos, Papastathopoulos, Katsouranis (Makos 88), Fotakis (Liberopoulos 80), Karagounis (Tziolis 56), Salpingidis (Kone 68), Gekas (Mitroglou 77), Samaras (Charisteas 56).
Russia: Malafeev (Shunin 46), Anyukov, V Berezutski (A Berezutski 46), Ignashevich, Zhirkov (Shishkin 67), Zyryanov (Glushakov 79), Denisov, Shirokov (Bilyaletdinov 84), Dzyuba (Kokorin 46), Arshavin, Dzagoev.

• Kostas Katsouranis cancelled out Roman Shirokov's second-minute opener. Greece's José Holebas, born in Germany to a Greek father and Uruguayan mother, won his first cap.

14 June 2008: Greece 0-1 Russia (Zyryanov 33) – Stadion Salzburg, Salzburg, UEFA EURO 2008 group stage
Greece: Nikopolidis, Seitaridis (Karagounis 40), Dellas, Kyrgiakos, Torossidis, Patsatzoglou, Katsouranis, Basinas, Charisteas, Amanatidis (Giannakopoulos 80), Liberopoulos (Gekas 61).
Russia: Akinfeev, Anyukov, Ignashevich, Kolodin, Zhirkov (V Berezutski 87), Semak, Semshov, Zyryanov, Bilyaletdinov (Saenko 70), Torbinskiy, Pavlyuchenko.

• Konstantin Zyryanov scored the only goal in Salzburg as Russia ended Greece's defence of the trophy.

20 June 2004: Russia 2-1 Greece (Kirichenko 2, Bulykin 17; Vryzas 43) – Estádio do Algarve, Faro-Loule, UEFA EURO 2004 group stage
Russia: Malafeev, Anyukov, Sharonov (Sennikov 56), Bugaev, Evseev, Gusev, Alenitchev, Radimov, Karyaka (Semshov 46) Bulykin (Sychev 46), Kirichenko.
Greece: Nikopolidis, Seitaridis, Dellas, Kapsis, Venetidis (Fyssas 89), Basinas (Tsiartas 42), Katsouranis, Zagorakis, Vryzas, Papadopoulos (Nikolaidis 70), Charisteas.

• The defeat was the only one Otto Rehhagel's Greece suffered in six matches in Portugal en route to the title.

Form guide
• UEFA EURO 2004 represented Greece's first appearance in a European finals tournament since 1980. They have not missed a EURO since.

• Russia reached the semi-finals of UEFA EURO 2008, losing 3-0 to eventual winners Spain – who had also beaten them 4-1 in the group stage.

• Russia have missed just one EURO since the break-up of the former Soviet Union, UEFA EURO 2000, though they had not progressed beyond the group stage before UEFA EURO 2008.

Team ties
• Giourkas Seitaridis played for FC Dinamo Moskva from 2005 to 2006, making eight league appearances.

• Katsouranis was a team-mate of former Russian international Andrei Karyaka at SL Benfica in 2006/07. Between 2007 and 2008, Charisteas and former Russia winger Ivan Saenko played together at 1. FC Nürnberg while Fanis Gekas and Dmitri Bulykin were at Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

• Andrey Arshavin's Arsenal FC were 2-1 winners against the Olympiacos FC of Vassilis Torossidis and Holebas in the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League group stage in London.

• In the Piraeus return, won 3-1 by Olympiacos, Giannis Maniatis, Holebas, Avraam Papadopoulos and Torossidis were in the home team, Arshavin again featuring for Arsenal.

• In the 2009/10 group stage, Arshavin scored Arsenal's second in their 2-0 home victory against an Olympiacos team featuring Papadopoulos, Torossidis and substitute Kostas Mitroglou.

• Denis Glushakov scored FC Lokomotiv Moskva's first goal in a 3-1 win at Grigoris Makos' AEK Athens FC in the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League group stage. Dmitri Torbinski and Roman Shishkin also started for Lokomotiv.

• Sergei Ignashevich scored PFC CSKA Moskva's goal in a 1-1 draw at home to PAOK FC in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League round of 32 second leg, sealing a 2-1 aggregate win. Dimitris Salpingidis and Kostas Chalkias started for the Greek club with Stefanos Athanasiadis coming on as a substitute.

• On 30 September 2010 Nikos Liberopoulos and Pantelis Kafes both scored past Russia goalkeeper Vyacheslav Malafeev although their AEK side still lost 4-2 at FC Zenit St Petersburg in the UEFA Europa League group stage.

• AEK also lost 3-0 at home to Zenit in Athens with Igor Denisov among the scorers. Kafes, Makos and Liberopoulos started for AEK.

• On 2 December 2009 Diniyar Bilyaletdinov scored the only goal in Everton FC's UEFA Europa League win at AEK, who included Kafes and Makos in their side. Bilyaletdinov had also set up two goals in Everton's 4-0 home success on 17 September 2009.

• On 29 July 2009 Aleksandr Kokorin scored FC Dinamo Moskva's winner in their 1-0 victory at Celtic FC in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round first leg. Aleksandr Kerzhakov played the full 90 minutes, while Giorgos Samaras was a Celtic substitute on the hour.

• A week later Samaras came on to score the goal that gave Celtic a 2-0 away victory – their first away success in Europe for six years – with his first European goal for the club. Kerzhakov and substitute Kokorin represented Dinamo.

• On 5 December 2007, substitute Salpingidis scored both goals in Panathinaikos FC's 2-0 victory against Lokomotiv Moskva in the UEFA Cup group stage. Loukas Vyntra, Alexandros Tziolis and Takis Fyssas – now Greece's technical director – started, with Sotiris Ninis and Giorgos Karagounis introduced as substitutes.

• Charisteas got 1. FC Nürnberg's first goal in their 2-2 draw at Zenit in the UEFA Cup group stage on 29 November 2007. Pavel Pogrebnyak was on target for the home team.

• On 8 November 2007 Larissa FC went down 3-2 at home to Zenit, for whom Pogrebnyak and Zyryanov scored; Giorgos Fotakis got the home side's second.

• In the 2007/08 UEFA Cup quarter-finals Arshavin, Pogrebnyak, Aleksandr Anyukov and Denisov scored for Zenit in a 4-1 victory at Gekas's Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

• In the group stage of that season's competition, Roman Pavlyuchenko's penalty helped FC Spartak Moskva to a 2-1 home win against Leverkusen.

• On 3 September 2007 Kerzhakov was on the scoresheet in Sevilla FC's 4-1 victory at AEK Athens in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round second leg. Liberopoulos and Sokratis Papastathopoulos were among the AEK starters.

• On 21 October 2004 Arshavin, Kerzhakov (3) and Denisov were all on target as Zenit overwhelmed an AEK team coach by Fernando Santos 5-1 in St Petersburg in the UEFA Cup group stage. Katsouranis captained AEK while Liberopoulos was also in the starting lineup.

• Greece coach Santos was also on the AEK bench for the 2005/06 UEFA Cup first round between the teams when Arshavin scored the only goal of the tie in the 89th minute of the second leg in Athens. Liberopoulos and Katsouranis were again in AEK's starting lineup.

• Former Russia goalkeeper Sergei Ovchinnikov played under Santos at FC Porto in 2000/01. Santos also worked with Karyaka at Benfica in 2006/07.

• Former Russia defender Omari Tetradze played for PAOK from 1999 to 2002.