Top plays bottom in Group F finale

Top meets bottom in Group F on Matchday 6, with SK Sturm Graz looking to finish a disappointing UEFA Europa League campaign on a high with a defeat of section winners Galatasaray AŞ.

• Both sides' fates were decided on Matchday 4, with Galatasaray qualifying and Sturm bowing out.

Previous meetings
• Sturm and Galatasaray played for a third time on Matchday 2, drawing 1-1 in Istanbul.

• The clubs met in the 2000/01 UEFA Champions League group stage, with Ivica Osim's Sturm beating Mircea Lucescu's Galatasaray 3-0 at home and drawing 2-2 in Istanbul.

• The teams for the game in Vienna on 20 September 2000 were:
Sturm: Schicklgruber, Neukirchner, Schupp, Reinmayr (Strafner, 71), Prilasnig, Schopp, Minavandchal, Kocijan (Mamedov, 46), Popović, Yuran (Korsos, 83), Fleurquin.
Galatasaray: Taffarel, Bülent Korkmaz, Popescu, Ahmet Yıldırım (Ergün Penbe, 46), Suat Kaya, Járdel, Hasan Şaş (Mixirica, 46), Ümit Davala (Faruk Atalay, 70), Bülent Akin, Capone, Hakan Ünsal.

• Current Sturm coach Franco Foda was an unused substitute in both legs.

Match background
• Galatasaray competed in the final two UEFA Cup group-stage campaigns, progressing from their section on both occasions. Sturm never competed in the UEFA Cup group stage.

• Sturm have not won in three European home games since beating FK Petrovac 5-0 in this season's third qualifying round.

• Galatasaray are unbeaten in ten European away games since a 1-0 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round defeat at FC Steaua Bucureşti on 27 August 2008.

Team facts
• Galatasaray coach Frank Rijkaard's only experience of Austrian opposition prior to Matchday 2 came in three international games for the Netherlands. His side drew 1-1 at home against Austria in a FIFA World Cup qualifier in 1985. He played later in two friendlies against them, losing 3-2 in 1990 before finding the net in a win by the same scoreline two years later.

• German coach Foda has been with Sturm for over a decade, having joined the club as a defender in 1997. The former 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Bayer 04 Leverkusen and VfB Stuttgart player counts his son Sandro Foda – a midfielder – among his players at Sturm.

• Sturm's Bosnian midfielder Samir Muratović played in Turkey with Kocaelispor in the 1998/99 season.

• Sturm defender Gordon Schildenfeld played in Turkey with Beşiktaş JK during the latter part of the 2007/08 season, during which time he was a team-mate of Galatasaray counterpart Gökhan Zan.

• Galatasaray's Milan Baroš and Harry Kewell took on Sturm's neighbours Grazer AK as Liverpool FC players, with their side winning 2-0 in Graz before losing 1-0 at home in a 2004/05 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round tie.

• This will be Sturm's 100th game in UEFA club competitions, with their previous 99 games netting them 32 wins, 26 draws and 41 defeats; they have scored 122 goals in that time and conceded 144.