These are the rosters to the 1972 UEFA European Football Championship , which was in Belgium, from 14 June to 18 June 1972. The players' listed ages is their age on the tournament's opening day (14 June 1972).
The tournament squads were remarkable in that every player in the tournament played for a club in his native country.
Manager: Raymond Goethals
No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Club |
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1 | GK | Christian Piot | 6 October 1947 (aged 24) | 23 | Standard Liège |
2 | DF | Georges Heylens | 8 August 1941 (aged 30) | 60 | Anderlecht |
3 | DF | Léon Dolmans | 6 April 1945 (aged 27) | 5 | Standard Liège |
4 | DF | Jean Thissen | 21 April 1946 (aged 26) | 23 | Standard Liège |
5 | MF | Erwin Vandendaele | 5 March 1945 (aged 27) | 11 | Club Brugge |
6 | FW | Jean Dockx | 24 May 1941 (aged 31) | 20 | Anderlecht |
7 | MF | Leon Semmeling | 4 January 1940 (aged 32) | 28 | Standard Liège |
8 | DF | Maurice Martens | 5 June 1947 (aged 25) | 4 | Molenbeek |
9 | FW | Raoul Lambert | 20 October 1944 (aged 27) | 13 | Club Brugge |
10 | FW | Paul van Himst (captain) | 2 October 1943 (aged 28) | 65 | Anderlecht |
11 | MF | Jan Verheyen | 9 July 1944 (aged 27) | 15 | Anderlecht |
12 | GK | Luc Sanders | 6 October 1945 (aged 26) | 0 | Club Brugge |
13 | DF | Gilbert van Binst | 5 July 1951 (aged 20) | 0 | Anderlecht |
14 | FW | Odilon Polleunis | 1 May 1943 (aged 29) | 15 | Sint-Truidense |
15 | FW | Jacques Teugels | 3 August 1946 (aged 25) | 7 | Molenbeek |
16 | MF | John Thio | 2 September 1944 (aged 27) | 17 | Club Brugge |
21 | FW | Frans Janssens | 25 September 1945 (aged 26) | 6 | Lierse |
Manager: Rudolf Illovszky
No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Club |
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1 | GK | István Géczi | 13 June 1944 (aged 28) | 13 | Ferencváros |
2 | DF | Tibor Fábián | 26 July 1946 (aged 25) | 9 | Vasas |
3 | DF | Miklós Páncsics | 4 February 1944 (aged 28) | 28 | Ferencváros |
4 | DF | Péter Juhász | 3 August 1948 (aged 23) | 15 | Újpesti Dózsa |
5 | FW | Lajos Szűcs | 10 December 1943 (aged 28) | 28 | Budapesti Honvéd |
6 | DF | László Bálint | 1 February 1948 (aged 24) | 6 | Ferencváros |
7 | MF | István Szőke | 13 February 1947 (aged 25) | 8 | Ferencváros |
8 | MF | Lajos Kocsis | 17 June 1947 (aged 24) | 17 | Budapesti Honvéd |
9 | FW | Ferenc Bene (captain) | 17 December 1944 (aged 27) | 60 | Újpesti Dózsa |
10 | MF | Lajos Kű | 5 July 1948 (aged 23) | 3 | Ferencváros |
11 | FW | Sándor Zámbó | 10 October 1944 (aged 27) | 24 | Újpesti Dózsa |
12 | MF | István Juhász | 17 July 1945 (aged 26) | 13 | Ferencváros |
15 | FW | Antal Dunai | 21 March 1943 (aged 29) | 22 | Újpesti Dózsa |
16 | MF | József Kovács | 8 April 1949 (aged 23) | 3 | Videoton |
20 | MF | Mihály Kozma | 1 November 1949 (aged 22) | 5 | Budapesti Honvéd |
22 | GK | Imre Rapp | 15 September 1937 (aged 34) | 0 | Pécsi MSC |
24 | MF | Flórián Albert | 15 September 1941 (aged 30) | 72 | Ferencváros |
Manager: Aleksandr Ponomarev
No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Club |
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1 | GK | Yevhen Rudakov | 2 January 1942 (aged 30) | 23 | Dynamo Kyiv |
2 | DF | Revaz Dzodzuashvili | 10 April 1945 (aged 27) | 28 | Dinamo Tbilisi |
3 | MF | Murtaz Khurtsilava (captain) | 5 January 1943 (aged 29) | 52 | Dinamo Tbilisi |
4 | DF | Nikolay Abramov | 5 January 1950 (aged 22) | 2 | Spartak Moscow |
5 | DF | Viktor Matviyenko | 9 November 1948 (aged 23) | 6 | Dynamo Kyiv |
6 | MF | Viktor Kolotov | 3 July 1949 (aged 22) | 14 | Dynamo Kyiv |
7 | DF | Vladimir Troshkin | 28 September 1947 (aged 24) | 5 | Dynamo Kyiv |
8 | MF | Anatoly Baidachny | 1 October 1952 (aged 19) | 3 | Dynamo Moscow |
9 | FW | Anatoliy Banishevskiy | 23 December 1946 (aged 25) | 48 | Neftchi Baku |
10 | MF | Vladimir Muntyan | 14 September 1946 (aged 25) | 29 | Dynamo Kyiv |
11 | MF | Oleg Dolmatov | 29 November 1948 (aged 23) | 6 | Dynamo Moscow |
12 | DF | Vladimir Kaplichny | 26 May 1944 (aged 28) | 38 | CSKA Moscow |
13 | DF | Yuri Istomin | 3 July 1944 (aged 27) | 26 | CSKA Moscow |
14 | MF | Anatoliy Konkov | 19 September 1949 (aged 22) | 8 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
15 | FW | Eduard Kozynkevych | 23 May 1949 (aged 23) | 5 | Karpaty Lviv |
16 | FW | Givi Nodia | 2 January 1948 (aged 24) | 18 | Dinamo Tbilisi |
18 | FW | Volodymyr Onyshchenko | 28 October 1949 (aged 22) | 1 | Zorya Voroshylovhrad |
19 | GK | Vladimir Pilguy | 26 January 1948 (aged 24) | 1 | Dynamo Moscow |
Manager: Helmut Schön
No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Club |
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1 | GK | Sepp Maier | 28 February 1944 (aged 28) | 40 | Bayern Munich |
2 | DF | Horst-Dieter Höttges | 10 September 1943 (aged 28) | 53 | Werder Bremen |
3 | DF | Paul Breitner | 5 September 1951 (aged 20) | 7 | Bayern Munich |
4 | DF | Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck | 3 April 1948 (aged 24) | 12 | Bayern Munich |
5 | DF | Franz Beckenbauer (captain) | 11 September 1945 (aged 26) | 61 | Bayern Munich |
6 | MF | Herbert Wimmer | 9 November 1944 (aged 27) | 16 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
7 | FW | Jürgen Grabowski | 7 July 1944 (aged 27) | 26 | Eintracht Frankfurt |
8 | FW | Uli Hoeneß | 5 January 1952 (aged 20) | 10 | Bayern Munich |
9 | FW | Jupp Heynckes | 9 May 1945 (aged 27) | 17 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
10 | MF | Günter Netzer | 14 September 1944 (aged 27) | 29 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
11 | FW | Erwin Kremers | 23 March 1949 (aged 23) | 2 | Schalke 04 |
13 | FW | Gerd Müller | 3 November 1945 (aged 26) | 40 | Bayern Munich |
14 | DF | Berti Vogts | 30 December 1946 (aged 25) | 42 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
15 | MF | Rainer Bonhof | 29 March 1952 (aged 20) | 1 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
16 | DF | Michael Bella | 29 September 1945 (aged 26) | 4 | MSV Duisburg |
17 | FW | Johannes Löhr | 5 July 1942 (aged 29) | 20 | 1. FC Köln |
18 | MF | Horst Köppel | 17 May 1948 (aged 24) | 9 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
22 | GK | Wolfgang Kleff | 16 November 1946 (aged 25) | 2 | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
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