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Head-to-Head
· Turkey and Poland meet for the fourth time at the European Championships. Turkey won twice and Poland once.
· Poland's win over Turkey came in the final in 2003 (3-0). Turkey recorded 3-1 wins in the 2017 playoff round and in the 2019 semi-finals.
· Turkey defeated Poland in each of their last three meetings at major world level tournaments (Olympic Games, World Championship, World Cup, Grand Champions Cup, World Grand Prix, Volleyball Nations League), all in the Nations League: 3-0 in 2018, 3-2 in 2019 and 3-1 in 2021.
· In January 2020, Turkey defeated Poland 3-2 in the European Olympic qualifying tournament. Turkey eventually defeated Germany 3-0 in the final of that tournament and qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, where they reached the quarter-finals.

Turkey
· This will be Turkey's 100th match at the European Championships. They recorded 51 wins and 48 defeats in their previous 99.
· Turkey finished in the top four in each of the last three European Championships: fourth in 2015, third in 2017 and second in 2019. They also recorded a top-four finish in 2003 (2nd) and 2011 (3rd).
· Turkey have won six successive matches at the European Championships for the first time. They defeated Czech Republic 3-1 in the round of last 16.
· Turkey lost three of their last 20 matches at the European Championships. All three defeats were versus Serbia, while they won each of their last 17 games against all other opponents.
· Turkey won four of their previous five quarter-final matches in the competition, with a 3-0 defeat to Russia in 2013 as the only exception. They defeated Russia (2011, 2017) and the Netherlands (2019) in straight sets, and Germany (2015) in five sets.
· Ebrar Karakurt (99) is Turkey's leading points scorer this tournament.

Poland
· Poland finished in the top four in one of the last five editions of the European Championships (fourth in 2019), directly following four consecutive editions where they finished outside of the top four.
· At the 2019 European Championships, Poland defeated Germany 3-2 in the quarter-finals. The Poles had lost their first two quarter-final matches in the competition: 3-0 versus Serbia in 2011 and 3-1 against the Netherlands in 2015.
· Poland have won five of their six matches in this tournament, with a 3-1 defeat against Bulgaria in the group stage as the only exception. Poland defeated Ukraine 3-1 in the round of last 16.
· Poland won 11 of their last 13 European Championships matches that went to a deciding set.
· Magdalena Stysiak (104) has won the most points for Poland this tournament, despite not playing in the group stage match versus Spain.
· Zuzanna Efimienko-Mlotkowska (19) is among the players to have won the most points from blocks in the final round of this edition. She was Poland's top scorer in the round of last 16, collecting 17 points of which nine from blocks.