Albania v Switzerland: Swiss have won just one of their nine games at a European Championship finals
Match facts ahead of the Euro 2016 Group A meeting in Lens on Saturday

Using the Independent's dedicated Euro 2016 app, we take a look at all the key match stats ahead of Albania v Switzerland
- Switzerland are unbeaten in their six encounters with Albania (W5 D1).
- Switzerland have also never failed to score in their six games against Albania.
- This is Switzerland’s fourth European Championships. They have never yet gone past the group stages.
- Switzerland have only won one of their nine games at the European Championships (2-0 v Portugal in June 2008). That win came after the Swiss side had already been knocked out of EURO 2008.
- Switzerland have never won their opening game at the EURO (D2 L1).
- Switzerland scored seven goals from corners in the qualifying campaign (29% of their total goals), more than any other side.
- This is the first time Albania have qualified for a major tournament.
- Albania scored the fewest goals in the qualifying campaign among the 24 teams who made it to EURO 2016: 7 goals in 7 games effectively played (the game against Serbia was awarded as a 3-0 win to Albania).
- No Albanian player scored more than one goal during the qualifying campaign.
- Xherdan Shaqiri has scored in each of his two games with Switzerland against Albania.
- This is Vladimir Petkovic’s first major international tournament as a manager. He took charge of Switzerland after the 2014 World Cup.
- Albania’s Italian head-coach Gianni De Biasi is taking part in his first major tournament as manager.
For more stats, play-by-play commentary, comprehensive Euro 2016 news from the Independent and pre-match coverage, download Independent Euro Live 2016
Join our commenting forum
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies
Comments