Videoton - Sporting: Interesting Factors

Videoton are unbeaten in eight European home games (three wins and five draws) since a 3-0 loss to Hibernian FC on 26 September 1989, over 23 years ago.

Marco Caneira has played for Sporting in three separate periods. He started his career in the club's youth department, and made his debut for them at 17, representing Sporting (1996-2000), and returning in 2006/07 (when he won the Portuguese Cup while on loan from Valencia CF) and again (2008-11), when he joined Videoton.

Sporting's coach is Ricardo Sá Pinto, who won 45 caps for Portugal and played for Sporting twice as a player – winning a league title and two Portuguese Cups – Sporting hired him as coach in February 2012 – it is his first major job as a first-team manager. The two coaches did not play together at Sporting (Sá Pinto arrived at the end of Sousa's only full season at the club, 1993/94), but they know each other well from the national team, having been in the squads for EURO '96 and UEFA EURO 2000.

Vidi and Sporting are meeting for the first time in UEFA competition, and this is Videoton's first match against Portuguese opponents.

Sporting's record in eight games against Hungarian sides is W2 D1 L5. Those games also include the final of the 1963/64 European Cup Winners' Cup, where Sporting beat MTK 1-0 in a replay in Belgium two days after their first encounter ended 3-3.

Other than those two games, Sporting's record against Hungarian sides is W1 D0 L5 (W1 D0 L2 in Portugal – W0 D0 L3 in Hungary).

This is Sporting's first game against a Hungarian side in just over 32 years.