Denmark have enjoyed both their finest hour and their most humiliating defeat against Germany, their opponents in the teams' final UEFA EURO 2012 Group B fixture.

Head-to-head record
• Denmark's record in 25 previous meetings with Germany is W8 D3 L14. However, they hold the upper hand in competitive fixtures, where they have won two of three encounters.

• The Danes have not lost in their last three meetings with Germany – all friendlies – recording wins in Copenhagen and Duisburg, and a draw in the Danish capital.

• The nations' competitive ties have all come at final tournaments: at the 1986 FIFA World Cup (2-0 to Denmark), the 1988 UEFA European Championship (2-0 to Germany) and the EURO '92 final (2-0 to Denmark). Denmark coach Morten Olsen played in the first two games.

• The countries first met in a Copenhagen friendly on 6 October 1912, which Denmark won 3-1. The Danes won their first three games against Germany, who finally prevailed 2-1 in Nuremberg in 1928.

• Germany handed Denmark their heaviest defeat in a friendly on 16 May 1937, winning 8-0 in Breslau – now the Polish UEFA EURO 2012 host city of Wroclaw – with Otto Siffling hitting five of those goals.

• Denmark's record against the former East Germany is W2 D2 L2.

Selected previous meetings
11 August 2010: Denmark 2-2 Germany (Rommedahl 74, Junker 87; Gomez 19, Helmes 73) – Parken Stadion, Copenhagen, friendly
Denmark: Sørensen, Jacobsen, Agger, Kjær, S Poulsen (Thomsen 28), Enevoldsen (Schøne 46), Kvist (Lorentzen 67), Eriksen, D Jensen (Silberbauer 46), Rommedahl, Pedersen (Junker 55)
Germany: Wiese, Beck (Riether 56), Boateng (Schultz 78), Tasci, Schäfer, Hitzlsperger (Helmes 66), Gentner, Träsch, Kroos, Marin (Hunt 56), Gomez.

• Joachim Löw's experimental Germany side surrendered a 2-0 lead to draw 2-2 with Olsen's Denmark in the sides' most recent meeting.

26 June 1992: Denmark 2-0 Germany (J Jensen 18, Vilfort 78) – Ullevi Stadion, Gothenburg, EURO '92 final
Denmark: Schmeichel, Sivebæk (Christiansen 66), L Olsen, Piechnik, Nielsen, Christofte, Vilfort, J Jensen, H Larsen, Povlsen, B Laudrup.
Germany: Illgner, Reuter, Kohler, Helmer, Buchwald, Brehme, Hässler, Sammer (Doll 46), Effenberg (Thom 80), Klinsmann, Riedle.

• Denmark's finest hour came as Richard Møller Nielsen's men beat Berti Vogts' Germany to win their only major title in a tournament they had only entered as late replacements for Yugoslavia.

14 June 1988: West Germany 2-0 Denmark (Klinsmann 10, Thon 85) – Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen, 1988 UEFA European Championship group stage
Germany: Immel, Buchwald (Borowka 33), Kohler, Herget, Brehme, Rolff, Littbarski, Matthäus, Thon, Völler (Mill 74), Klinsmann.
Denmark: Schmeichel, Vilfort (Berggreen 73), L Olsen, Sivebæk, I Nielsen, Heintze, M Olsen, Lerby, M Laudrup (J Eriksen 62), Elkjær, Povlsen.

• Germany's only competitive victory against Denmark came as West Germany at the 1988 UEFA European Championship. Franz Beckenbauer's side reached the semi-finals as group winners, with Sepp Piontek's Danes ending the group stage with no points.

Form guide
• Winners in 1992, Denmark failed to reach UEFA EURO 2008. Prior to that, they had competed at every UEFA European Championship finals since 1984, when they reached the semi-finals, but lost out to Spain on penalties.

• West Germany or Germany have played in every EURO final tournament since marking their first appearance with victory in 1972. Also winners in 1980 and 1996, they reached the 1976, 1992 and 2008 finals, but have yet to take Europe's top prize since the turn of the millennium.

Team ties
• Denmark coach Olsen spent the final seasons of his playing career (1986-89) with 1. FC Köln, who finished second in the table in his final campaign. He coached the club from 1993 to 1995.

• Several Denmark players have Bundesliga experience:
Nicolai Jørgensen (Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2010-, 1. FC Kaiserslautern 2011-)
Lars Jacobsen (Hamburger SV 2002-03, 1. FC Nürnberg 2007-08)
Simon Kjær (VfL Wolfsburg 2010-)
William Kvist (VfB Stuttgart 2010-)
Peter Løvenkrands (FC Schalke 04 2006-08)
Christian Poulsen (FC Schalke 04 2002-06)

• Kvist and Cacau are team-mates at Stuttgart.

• At Leverkusen Jørgensen has played alongside Simon Rolfes, Lars Bender and André Schürrle; he has been on loan at Kaiserslautern since 2011.

• Kjær is on loan at AS Roma, but contracted to Wolfsburg until 2014.

• Christian Poulsen and Manuel Neuer were team-mates in 2005/06, the Dane's final season with Schalke. Neuer, Benedikt Höwedes and Mesut Özil also played alongside Løvenkrands at Schalke.

• Nicklas Bendtner and Per Mertesacker are both on Arsenal FC's books, though the fomer spent the 2011/12 season on loan at Sunderland AFC.

• Denmark's Simon Poulsen made his international debut in a 1-0 win in Germany in March 2007. Bendtner scored the only goal.