The rivalry against Spain has significantly increased in the last years, considering its world dominance of the last years. However, despite the heavy 4-0 loss in the Euro 2012 final, Italy still leads personal balance out of the 32 matches ever played against the Spanish side: 10 victories and 13 draws.
Despite never having won a World Cup, Hungary represented for many years one of the world's strongest teams. It has faced Italy a total of 34 times, but only managed to achieve nine wins and ties. The other 16 finished with an Italian victory, including the 1938 World Cup final.
Both for geographical and historical reasons, France really does represent the biggest rivalry Italians could ever feel. However, despite some relevant victories, such as the ones of 1986, 1998 and 2000, the French do not really have many arguments on their favor against Italy, statistically speaking.
As a matter of fact, out of the 37 games ever disputed, the Blues only managed to win nine times and to draw 10. Italy, instead, won the other 18, including the 2006 World Cup final.
With Austria, the sense of rivalry is not particularly relevant. However, the Azzurri have been able to develop a great dominance over their neighbors. In 37 matches, Italy has won 17, tied eight and lost 12. The last official encounter was the 2-1 victory during the 1998 World Cup, with goals by Christian Vieri and Roberto Baggio.
Just like with Austria, there is no particular sense of rivalry against this neighbor country. Nonetheless, Switzerland has the "honor" of being the nation that has lost the most against Italy: 28 in 58 games. In the other 30, the Swiss only won in eight occasions, tying 22.
Despite these numbers and the lack of titles, however, Switzerland was chosen over Italy to be one of the top seeds for the recent drawings of the upcoming World Cup in Brazil.
