This will be Wales’ 16th meeting with Finland in all competitions – excluding the home nations and Republic of Ireland, they’ve only ever faced Czechia (18), Belgium (17) and Germany (17) more often.

Wales are unbeaten in their last four meetings with Finland in all competitions, most recently a 0-0 draw in a friendly in September 2021.

Finland lost their last away game against Wales 3-1 in November 2020. Prior to this, they had been unbeaten each of their last five such visits (W2 D3).

Wales have won their last two competitive meetings with Finland, both in the UEFA Nations League in 2020. They’ve never won three in a row against them before.

Wales have never won a European Championship play-off match, drawing and losing against each of Hungary in 1962/1963, Yugoslavia in 1976 and Russia in 2003. However, they did qualify for the 2022 World Cup via the play-offs.

This is Finland’s first ever appearance in the play-off rounds for either the World Cup or European Championship. They won six games in the group stages, their joint-most ever in a single EURO/World Cup qualifying campaign.

Daniel James has been involved in five goals in his last five home appearances for Wales (1 goal, 4 assists), scoring or assisting every 55 minutes across those appearances.

Teemu Pukki – who is Finland’s all-time leading scorer (39) and has won the second-most caps (118) behind Jari Litmanen (137) – has been involved in 17 goals in his last 18 UEFA European Championship qualifying appearances (12 goals, 5 assists).