Germany vs Hungary: UEFA EURO 2020 match background, facts and stats

Hungary have a solid overall record against Germany and have won two of their last three games there as they travel to Munich to conclude Group F in what is the teams' first competitive meeting since the 1954 FIFA World Cup final.

• Hungary's three-match unbeaten run away to Germany was ended on their last visit five years ago, although there is a considerable difference in EURO pedigree between the teams. While nine of Germany's 12 previous appearances have extended into the knockout rounds, Hungary's achievement in reaching the last 16 at UEFA EURO 2016 was their most successful campaign in the competition for 44 years.

• Both sides come into this match in buoyant mood, Hungary having held on for a 1-1 draw against world champions France while Germany beat holders Portugal 4-2. Each side had lost their opening game, three late Portugal goals condemning Hungary to a 3-0 loss in Budapest while a Mats Hummels own goal gave France a 1-0 victory in Munich.

• Germany will go through if they avoid defeat. They will finish first if they win and France do not beat Portugal. Germany will finish third if they draw and France lose, or if both Germany and Portugal lose.

• Hungary will go through if they win. If they win and France lose, second place will be decided on overall goal difference. Hungary will finish third if they win and the other game is drawn.

Previous meetings

• The most recent of the sides' meetings came in June 2016, an Ádám Lang own goal and Thomas Müller's strike giving Germany a 2-0 friendly victory in Gelsenkirchen.

• That made it three wins in their last four matches against Hungary for Germany, who went down 2-0 at home to the Hungarians in a Kaiserslautern friendly in June 2004.

• Before a 5-2 friendly victory in Budapest in August 2001, Germany/West Germany were without a win in five matches against Hungary (D4 L1).

• This is the teams' first competitive meeting since the 1954 World Cup final, won 3-2 by West Germany in Berne with Helmut Rahn scoring twice, including the decisive goal in the 84th minute, as his side came back from two goals down to claim their first world title.

• Hungary had beaten West Germany 8-3 earlier in the same tournament, Sándor Kocsis scoring four times in what is the only other competitive fixture between the sides.

• Germany have won 13 of their 34 matches against Hungary, with seven of their ten defeats coming in the first 14 games between the countries.

• This is only the sides' second match in Munich; the first, a friendly in December 1911, ended in a 4-1 Hungary victory.

EURO facts: Germany

• The Mannschaft are participating in their 13th successive EURO since missing out on the final tournament as West Germany in 1968, their first attempt.

• EURO winners in 1972, 1980 and 1996 – and three-time runners-up – Germany last missed out on the semi-finals in 2004 when, as in 2000, they did not make it through the group stage. With three European titles, they are the competition's joint record winners alongside Spain.

• Germany were again semi-finalists at UEFA EURO 2016, losing 2-0 to hosts France in the last four. The then-world champions had finished first in their section before beating Slovakia (3-0) and Italy (1-1, 6-5 pens) in the knockout rounds.

• Joachim Löw's side won seven of their eight qualifiers (L1) to book their place at UEFA EURO 2020. Having suffered their sole defeat, 4-2 at home to the Netherlands on 6 September 2019, Germany scored 15 goals in winning their last four matches.

• This is Germany's 26th successive appearance in a World Cup or EURO final tournament.

• The Matchday 1 defeat by France was Germany's first game in Munich since a goalless UEFA Nations League draw against the same opponents in September 2018; their overall record in the city after beating Portugal is W14 D5 L8. They have now won five of their nine matches at the Football Arena Munich (D1 L3), although their joint heaviest UEFA European Championship loss came at the stadium, a 3-0 reverse against the Czech Republic in UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying.

• Germany won both games at the Football Arena Munich at the 2006 World Cup, beating Costa Rica 4-2 in the group stage and Sweden 2-0 in the round of 16. They also lifted the World Cup in the city in 1974 after a 2-1 victory over the Netherlands in the final; it was the hosts' only fixture in Munich during that tournament.

EURO facts: Hungary

• This is Hungary's second consecutive EURO finals. Their 2016 appearance was their first since 1972 and their first major tournament since the 1986 World Cup. Only four countries competed at the first two EURO final rounds the Magyars reached – in 1964 and 1972.

• In 2016 a team coached by Bernd Storck finished first in Group F on five points, level with Iceland but above them on head-to-head record, and two points ahead of eventual champions Portugal with eliminated Austria on one point. Hungary opened with a 2-0 win against Austria in Bordeaux, Ádám Szalai opening the scoring, before draws against Iceland (1-1) and Portugal (3-3).

• Belgium proved too strong in the round of 16, however, running out 4-0 winners in Toulouse – although three of those goals came in the final 12 minutes.

• Hungary have now won two of their ten games at EURO final tournaments (D3 L5).

• Hungary were fourth in their UEFA EURO 2020 qualifying group, picking up 12 points from their eight games to finish behind Croatia, Wales and Slovakia – who are all also in the final tournament.

• Marco Rossi's side qualified for the play-offs having finished second in their group in the 2018/19 UEFA Nations League, picking up ten points to end two behind Finland and one ahead of Greece.

• The Hungarians then won 3-1 in Bulgaria in their play-off semi-final but looked to be heading out as they trailed to Iceland in their final in Budapest, only for late goals from Loïc Négo (88) and Dominik Szoboszlai (90+2) to snatch a dramatic 2-1 victory and a place in the final tournament.

• The Matchday 1 defeat by Portugal is Hungary's only competitiive defeat in 11 matches (W6 D4), since a 3-2 loss at home to Russia in the UEFA Nations League on 6 September 2020.

• Hungary got to the final of the 1938 and 1954 World Cups, losing to Italy (in France) and West Germany (in Switzerland) respectively.

• Hungary have played only four previous matches in Munich. Aside from their 1911 win against Germany, at the 1972 Olympic Games they faced Brazil (2-2), hosts West Germany (4-1) and, in the final, Poland (1-2) at the Olympiastadion. Those were all classed as full internationals.

• Hungary's record in Germany overall is W10 D8 L11. At the 1972 Olympics they beat Iran 5-0 in Nuremberg, Denmark in Augsburg, East Germany in Passau and Mexico in Regensburg (all 2-0) aside from their three games in Munich.

Links and trivia

• Born in Kaiserslautern, Hungary defender Willi Orbán has German and Hungarian citizenship. A German Under-21 international, he made his debut for Hungary in 2018.

• Niklas Süle was born in Frankfurt and has Hungarian grandparents, who emigrated from Budapest to Germany; he was eligible to play for Hungary as a result.

• Have played in Germany:
Péter Gulácsi (Leipzig 2015–)
Willi Orbán (Kaiserslautern 1997–2015, Leipzig 2015–)
Ádám Szalai (Stuttgart 2004–07, Mainz 2010–13, Schalke 2013/14, Hoffenheim 2014–19, Hannover 2016 loan, Mainz 2019–)
Roland Sallai (Freiburg 2018–)

• Have played together:
Lukas Klostermann, Marcel Halstenberg & Péter Gulácsi, Willi Orbán (Leipzig 2015–)
Timo Werner & Péter Gulácsi, Willi Orbán (Leipzig 2016–20)
Robin Koch & Roland Sallai (Freiburg 2018–20)

• Szalai's team-mates at Hoffenheim included Süle (2014–17) and Serge Gnabry (2017/18).

• Emre Can (Dortmund), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern) and Kai Havertz (Leverkusen) all scored Bundesliga goals against Sallai's Freiburg in 2020.

• A Werner hat-trick helped Leipzig to an 8-0 win against Szalai's Mainz on 2 November 2019, the club's record Bundesliga victory. Werner also provided three assists with Halstenberg also on the scoresheet.

• Hungary head coach Rossi made 15 appearances for German club Eintracht Frankfurt in 1996/97.

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Germany

• After going two EURO finals matches without scoring – both against France – Germany struck four goals in a group game at the tournament for the first time as Joachim Löw's side came from behind to beat Fernando Santos's Portugal 4-2 in Munich on Matchday 2. They had also won by that scoreline in the quarter-finals of UEFA EURO 2012 against a Greece side led by the same coach.

• The defeat by France on Matchday 1 was Germany's third in four tournament matches, having lost two of their three games at the 2018 World Cup – both of those also without scoring. It was the second successive major finals in which Germany had lost their opening match and the first time they had done so at the UEFA European Championship. In Russia three years ago they lost their first game (vs Mexico) and won the second (vs Sweden), but then also lost their third (vs South Korea) to go out at the group stage.

• Germany's two pre-UEFA EURO 2020 friendlies brought a 1-1 draw with Denmark in Innsbruck and a 7-1 romp against Latvia in Düsseldorf in which there were seven different goalscorers, the first of them, Robin Gosens, opening his account for the Mannschaft. The Atalanta player was also on target against Portugal, in which he won the Star of the Match award.

• Those two warm-up games were notable for the return of erstwhile stalwarts Mats Hummels and Thomas Müller, neither of whom had played for Germany since November 2018. Christian Günter had an even longer wait for a return to national colours, his second cap, as a substitute in the draw against Denmark, coming seven years after his first, while Kevin Volland's appearance in Innsbruck was his first since November 2016.

• The game against Latvia was also a significant one for goalkeeper and captain Manuel Neuer as it was his 100th international appearance for Germany, making him the third centurion in the UEFA EURO 2020 squad alongside Müller and Toni Kroos (now both 104 caps) and the first German goalkeeper ever to reach that landmark.

• Twelve players survived that early exit from the 2018 World Cup to retain their places in Joachim Löw's selection this time around, though only eight remain from UEFA EURO 2016 – Neuer, Hummels, Müller, Kroos, Joshua Kimmich and non-World Cup participants Bernd Leno, Emre Can and Leroy Sané.

• Until Kai Havertz scored Germany's third goal against Portugal no player in Löw's UEFA EURO 2020 squad had ever found the net at the EURO finals. Müller has now competed in 13 final tournament matches without a goal, Kroos in 12 and Hummels – an own goal scorer against France – in 11. Müller, who in contrast has scored ten World Cup final tournament goals, even missed his penalty in the 2016 quarter-final shoot-out against Italy.

• Eight members of Bayern München's 2020/21 Bundesliga-winning side have been selected for this squad – Neuer, Kimmich, Sané, Müller, Serge Gnabry, Leon Goretzka, Niklas Süle and Jamal Musiala, the youngest player in the party at 18.

• Other 2020/21 trophy winners in the squad are Dortmund pair Hummels and Can, who won the DFB-Pokal, Manchester City's Premier League champion İlkay Gündoğan, and UEFA Champions League winners Antonio Rüdiger, Timo Werner and final goalscorer Havertz of Chelsea.

• There were 21 members of Löw's EURO squad in UEFA Champions League action during the 2020/21 season, plus Leno in the UEFA Europa League, with only Freiburg's Günter, Monaco's Volland, Eintracht Frankfurt's Kevin Trapp and Leeds United's Robin Koch not involved in continental club competition.

Hungary

• Attila Fiola's goal against France was only his second for Hungary in 37 internationals, his first having come on his 34th appearance in a 4-1 World Cup qualifying win against San Marino earlier this year.

• Hungary's defeat by Portugal on Matchday 1 ended the team's long unbeaten run that had stretched to 11 matches when they defeated Cyprus 1-0 and drew 0-0 with the Republic of Ireland in their two pre-UEFA EURO 2020 friendlies, both played at the Ferenc Szusza Stadion in Budapest. Marco Rossi's side remain undefeated outside the Hungarian capital, however, in six matches, winning five, since their final UEFA EURO 2020 group qualifier, a 0-2 defeat to Wales in Cardiff.

• András Schäfer's first international goal settled the contest against Cyprus, a game in which János Hahn and Bendegúz Bolla both made their Hungary debuts. Those two players were again involved against Ireland, when another player, Szabolcs Schön, earned his first cap and recalled goalkeeper Ádám Bogdán came off the bench to make his first international appearance for over five years.

• Hahn was the top scorer in the 2020/21 Hungarian top flight, with 22 goals for Paks, the two players just behind him – Fehérvár's Nemanja Nikolić (15) and Honvéd's Dániel Gazdag (13) – having also both made the UEFA EURO 2020 squad along with five members of the title-winning Ferencváros side – Dénes Dibusz, Gergő Lovrencsics, Dávid Sigér, Endre Botka and Bogdán.

• Ádám Lang was also a league champion in 2020/21, winning the Cypriot league with Omonoia, for whom he also started all six group games in the UEFA Europa League.

• Ádám Szalai was the only player in Marco Rossi's squad to have scored at a major tournament until Fiola struck against France. Hungary captain Szalai, who was substituted in the first half against the world champions, found the net against Austria at UEFA EURO 2016 and is one of nine Hungarian survivors from that event along with Lang, Lovrencsics, Nikolić, Fiola, László Kleinheisler, Ádám Nagy and unused goalkeepers Dibusz and Péter Gulácsi.

• Skipper Szalai is also the only player in the Hungary squad with more than 50 caps and ten international goals to his name, boasting respective tallies of 72 and 23. Nagy made his 50th appearance in the draw against France.

• Hungary's EURO play-off match-winner Dominik Szoboszlai was ruled out of the final tournament with a groin injury that has sidelined him since he joined Leipzig from Salzburg at the turn of the year.