Match facts: Spain v Italy

SPAIN

• Vicente del Bosque could become only the second coach to win the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship. Helmut Schön was at the West Germany helm for the 1972 EURO and 1974 World Cup.

• If Fernando Torres scores in Kyiv he will become the first player to register in two EURO finals.

• Iker Casillas, Andrés Iniesta, Xavi Hernández, Torres, Cesc Fàbregas, Santi Cazorla, Xabi Alonso, Sergio Ramos and David Silva all featured in the 2008 showpiece. No player has appeared in two UEFA European Championship final wins, though Rainer Bonhof was a non-playing member of the West Germany squads in 1972 and 1980.

• Spain are 19 competitive games without defeat since a 1-0 loss to Switzerland on 16/06/2010 at the World Cup. They have lost four of their 14 friendlies in that time, however.

• Spain are ten games unbeaten, winning seven since their 1-0 defeat by England on 12/11/2011. Their semi-final shoot-out triumph is classed as a draw.

• Casillas has gone 419 minutes without conceding, since Antonio Di Natale's 61st-minute effort for Italy on 10/06. Spain have kept nine successive clean sheets in major tournament knockout games.

• Fàbregas made his seventh substitute appearance at the UEFA European Championship against Portugal, equalling a record held by the Netherlands' Aron Winter and Cazorla.

• Del Bosque's team have made 3,417 completed passes at UEFA EURO 2012, to their opponents' 1,530. It was 672/341 against Italy, 810/198 v Ireland, 639/231 v Croatia, 638/429 v France and 658/331 v Portugal.

• Spain have had over 50% possession in 21 of their last 22 games at major final tournaments, the exception being the UEFA EURO 2008 final against Germany (46%).

Injury news
• Carles Puyol (knee) and Spain's record scorer, David Villa (broken leg), were ruled out of the finals.

Miscellaneous
• On 28/06, FC Barcelona announced they have agreed a €14m fee to re-sign Jordi Alba from Valencia CF on a five-year deal, subject to a medical next week.

• Iniesta (v Croatia, Italy), Torres (v Republic of Ireland), Alonso (v France) and Ramos (v Portugal) have won Carlsberg Man of the Match awards at UEFA EURO 2012.

• Spain's 4-0 victory against the Republic of Ireland was their biggest win at a UEFA European Championship.

• Spain's squad includes 12 of the party that won in 2008: Casillas, Raúl Albiol, Iniesta, Xavi, Torres, Fàbregas, Cazorla, Alonso, Ramos, Álvaro Arbeloa, David Silva and Pepe Reina. Casillas, Xavi, Alonso and Torres were in the 2004 squad, and for Casillas this is a national record fourth EURO as he was also at UEFA EURO 2000.

• Casillas kept his 73rd clean sheet for Spain against Serbia on 26/05, beating Edwin van der Sar's international record. Five days later he celebrated a record 95th international win against South Korea (4-1).

UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying
• Spain won eight out of eight in Group I, becoming one of only five sides to go through a qualifying campaign with a 100% record in the history of the UEFA European Championship.

• Ramos and Villa were the only players to feature in all eight group games for Del Bosque's side. Two of the final tournament squad did not feature in qualifying: Reina and Juanfran.

Domestic information
• Casillas, Ramos, Arbeloa, Albiol and Alonso helped Real Madrid CF to Liga glory, Albiol making five league starts.

• Barcelona's Víctor Valdés, Gerard Piqué, Xavi, Fàbregas, Iniesta, Sergio Busquets and Pedro Rodríguez won the Copa del Rey, Pedro scoring twice on 25/05 in a 3-0 final triumph against an Athletic Club side featuring Fernando Llorente and Javi Martínez. Barça also won the UEFA Super Cup, Spanish Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.

• Juan Mata and Torres (Chelsea FC: UEFA Champions League and FA Cup), Silva (Manchester City FC: Premier League) and Reina (Liverpool FC: League Cup) all won trophies with English sides.

• Juanfran, who made his Spain debut against Serbia on 26/05, was in the Club Atlético de Madrid XI that defeated an Athletic team boasting Llorente and Javi Martínez in the UEFA Europa League final in Bucharest on 09/05.

ITALY

• Italy have won just two of their last eight games in regulation time and were a national-record six matches without a victory in major final tournaments before beating the Republic of Ireland on 18/06.

• Coach Cesare Prandelli is unbeaten in competitive internationals, recording ten wins and five draws to date, with the shoot-out triumph over England classed as a draw.

• Christian Maggio is available after serving a one-match suspension against Germany.

• In the semis, Mario Balotelli became only the second Italy player to score twice in one EURO game, after Pierluigi Casiraghi against Russia in 1996. He also became the first Azzurri player to register three goals at one UEFA European Championship, a tally that equals Antonio Cassano's national-record haul at all EURO finals.

• Andrea Pirlo made 146 passes against England, completing 117 – the most at UEFA EURO 2012, extra time included.

Injury news
• Giorgio Chiellini injured his hamstring against Ireland and missed the quarter-final before returning for the semi.

• Daniele De Rossi overcame sciatica problems to face Germany; Ignazio Abate did not play as he was unable to train in the lead up to the game due to muscle fatigue suffered in the quarter-final.

• Cassano was expected to miss the rest of the season after undergoing heart surgery on 04/11 but returned to action at the start of April.

Miscellaneous
• Pirlo (v Croatia, England and Germany) is the only player to have picked up three Carlsberg Man of the Match awards at UEFA EURO 2012. Cassano took the honour against Ireland.

• Pirlo's effort against Croatia was the first goal direct from a free-kick at the UEFA European Championship since Marek Heinz versus Germany at UEFA EURO 2004.

• Italy have never scored an extra-time goal at the UEFA European Championship in seven attempts.

• Fabio Borini is yet to make his competitive debut for Italy.

• Eight of the squad had EURO experience: Gianluigi Buffon (2004, 2008), Cassano (2004, 2008), Pirlo (2004, 2008), Chiellini (2008), Andrea Barzagli (2008), De Rossi (2008), Antonio Di Natale (2008) and Morgan De Sanctis (2008).

• Italy lost 3-0 to Russia in Zurich on 01/06 in their only pre-tournament friendly. Their meeting with Luxembourg in Parma, scheduled for 29/05, was cancelled after an earthquake.

UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying
• Italy's tally of 26 points from ten games was a national record in a qualifying section for a major tournament.

• The Azzurri finished with the best defensive record across the nine groups, conceding only two goals.

• Discounting the six minutes of the home game against Serbia before it was abandoned, Italy did not concede for 625 minutes between Estonia finding the net in their opening fixture and Serbia's goal 13 months later.

• Chiellini played every minute of Italy's campaign; Cassano was the only other ever-present member of the squad and also the Azzurri's six-goal leading scorer.

• Six of the squad did not play in qualifying: Angelo Ogbonna, Abate, Giaccherini, Di Natale, Borini and Diamanti.

Domestic information
• The Italy squad features seven members of the Juventus side that went through the Serie A season unbeaten en route to the title: Buffon, Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci, Chiellini, Giaccherini, Claudio Marchisio and Pirlo. Pirlo has not been on the losing side in Serie A since 18 December 2010, when he was at AC Milan.

• The Bianconeri suffered their first defeat of the season in their last outing, losing 2-0 to a Napoli side featuring De Sanctis and Maggio in the Coppa Italia final on 20/05.

• Balotelli scored 13 goals in 23 games and was sent off twice as Manchester City FC won the Premier League.

• Di Natale struck 23 times as Udinese Calcio finished third in Serie A, the third successive season he has hit 20 or more. He did not manage more than 17 before he reached the age of 30.

• Giovinco (15), Marchisio (9) and Diamanti (8) all established personal bests in front of goal in Serie A, while Nocerino's return of ten in 35 games was four more than he had mustered in his previous four seasons combined.