OB and Parma meet again

The 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup winners Odense BK will be hoping that history does not repeat itself as they play host to Parma FC in their first UEFA Cup Group D fixture.

• The two sides met in the quarter-finals of the 1994/95 UEFA Cup, with the Italian side knocking out their Danish opponents 1-0 on aggregate en route to the first of their two UEFA Cup successes - they beat Juventus 2-1 on aggregate in the final.

• The first leg in Italy was settled by Gianfranco Zola's 49th-minute penalty, and Parma held on for a 0-0 draw in the second encounter in Denmark.

• Current Parma stars Luca Bucci and Fernando Couto played against OB back in 1994/95.

• Those two games mark the only occasions in the course of 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup winners OB's 61-match European history (22 wins, 13 draws and 26 defeats) that they have encountered Italian opponents.

• Parma are veterans of almost twice as many UEFA club competition games (115), winning the 1992/93 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, the 1993 UEFA Super Cup and the UEFA Cups in 1994/95 and 1998/99.

• Their experience of Danish opposition is not that extensive, however, with only two other games against Superliga sides since that meeting with OB in 1994/95.

• They played Brøndby IF in the third round of the 2001/02 UEFA Cup, drawing 1-1 in the first leg at home before progressing with a 3-0 win in Denmark, with Patrick Mboma, Hidetoshi Nakata and Sabri Lamouchi scoring the goals. Lamouchi had also scored in the first leg.

• Spanish side CA Osasuna will host the Netherlands' SC Heerenveen in the day's other Group D fixture.