Sweden will look to end a barren run against France stretching back 11 games and almost 43 years when the sides meet in their final UEFA EURO 2012 Group D fixture.

Head-to-head record
• Sweden's record in 17 matches against France is W4 D5 L8; they have not won in three UEFA European Championship games against Les Bleus, recording two draws and a defeat.

• Sweden have only beaten Les Bleus once in seven competitive encounters, 2-0 in a FIFA World Cup qualifier in Stockholm on 15 October 1969. Their overall competitive record against France reads W1 D3 L3.

• That 1969 fixture is Sweden's most recent victory against France – competitive or friendly – with the French posting six wins and five draws subsequently.

• The nations first met in Paris on 10 November 1935, with France prevailing 2-0; Sweden won the second encounter 1-0 in the French capital on 26 March 1952.

• France won the most recent meeting 3-2 in Gothenberg on 20 August 2008.

• The teams have met only once before at a major tournament, drawing 1-1 in Stockholm at EURO '92. Laurent Blanc appeared for France, one of his six matches as a player against Sweden, which yielded two wins and four draws.

Selected previous meetings
20 August 2008: Sweden 2-3 France (H Larsson 5, Källström 85pen; Benzema 19, Govou 61 77) – Ullevi Stadium, Gothenberg, friendly
Sweden: Isaksson, Mellberg (Von Schlebrugge 69), Majstorovic, P Hansson, M Nilsson (Stoor 62), D Andersson (Holmen 83), Källström, A Svensson, Wilhelmsson (Wendt 46), H Larsson (Berg 62), Rosenberg.
France: Mandanda, Sagna, Gallas, Mexès, Evra, Govou, Toulalan (Gourcuff 90), L Diarra, Malouda (Alou Diarra 70), Benzema, Henry.

• Henrik Larsson's 37th and final Sweden strike put Lars Lagerbäck's side ahead but Sidney Govou's double won this friendly for Raymond Domenech's France.

10 June 1992: Sweden 1-1 France (J Erikssen 24; Papin 58) – Råsunda Stadium, Solna, EURO '92 group stage
Sweden: Ravelli, R Nilsson, P Andersson, Björklund, J Eriksson, Ingesson, Schwarz, Thern, Limpar, Brolin, K Andersson (Dahlin 74).
France: Martini, Angloma (Fernandez 66), Boli, Blanc, Casoni, Amoros, Sauzée, Deschamps, Cantona, Papin, Vahirua (Perez 46).

• Tommy Svensson's Sweden were pegged back by Michel Platini's France in their opening EURO '92 fixture. Les Bleus did not progress beyond the group stage, while section winners Sweden lost to Germany in the semi-finals.

Form guide
• France earned two UEFA European Championship qualifying draws against Ukraine in Kyiv – 0-0 on 4 September 1999, a match in which Blanc played, and 2-2 on 21 November 2007 in their 700th senior fixture.

• France fell at the group stage at the 2010 World Cup and UEFA EURO 2008, failing to win a single game at either tournament.

• Sweden last appeared at a major tournament at UEFA EURO 2008, which they exited at the group stage after one win and two losses.

Team ties
• A number of Sweden players have played in France:
Johan Elmander (Toulouse FC 2006-08)
Petter Hansson (Stade Rennais FC 2007-10, AS Monaco FC 2010-)
Andreas Isaksson (Stade Rennais FC 2004-06)
Kim Källström (Stade Rennais FC 2003-06, Olympique Lyonnais 2006-)
Christian Wilhelmsson (FC Nantes 2006)

• Zlatan Ibrahimović and Éric Abidal won the Spanish title together at FC Barcelona in 2009/10.

• Yoann Gourcuff played alongside Isaksson and Källström at Rennes, and has played with the latter at Lyon since 2010.

• Källström's current Lyon team-mates also include Hugo Lloris, Anthony Réveillère, Jimmy Briand and Bafétimbi Gomis. He played with Karim Benzema, Alou Diarra, Florent Malouda and Abidal earlier in his Lyon career.

• Sweden youngster John Guidetti and France's Samir Nasri are both on Manchester City FC's books, though the former spent the 2011/12 season loaned to Feyenoord.

• Johan Elmander and André-Pierre Gignac were Toulouse team-mates in 2007/08.

• Gunnar Andersson remains the most celebrated Swedish export to France, having scored 169 league goals for Olympique de Marseille from 1950 to 1958. He died in a car crash in 1969.

• Sweden coach Erik Hamrén's only previous encounters with French opponents came in the 2004/05 UEFA Cup, where his Aalborg BK side drew 1-1 at home and lost 2-0 away against AJ Auxerre.