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.
Belgium[]
Head coach: Raymond Goethals
# | Pos | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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GK | Christian Piot | 6 October 1947 (aged 24) | Standard Liège | |||
GK | Luc Sanders | 6 October 1945 (aged 26) | Club Brugge | |||
DF | Léon Dolmans | 6 April 1945 (aged 27) | Standard Liège | |||
DF | Georges Heylens | 8 August 1941 (aged 30) | Anderlecht | |||
DF | Maurice Martens | 5 June 1947 (aged 25) | Molenbeek | |||
DF | Jean Thissen | 21 April 1946 (aged 26) | Standard Liège | |||
DF | Gilbert van Binst | 5 July 1951 (aged 20) | Anderlecht | |||
MF | Leon Semmeling | 4 January 1940 (aged 32) | Standard Liège | |||
MF | John Thio | 2 September 1944 (aged 27) | Club Brugge | |||
MF | Erwin Vandendaele | 5 March 1945 (aged 27) | Club Brugge | |||
MF | Jan Verheyen | 9 July 1944 (aged 27) | 1 | Anderlecht | ||
FW | Jean Dockx | 24 May 1941 (aged 31) | Anderlecht | |||
FW | Frans Janssens | 25 September 1945 (aged 26) | 1 | Lierse | ||
FW | Raoul Lambert | 20 October 1944 (aged 27) | Club Brugge | |||
FW | Odilon Polleunis | 1 May 1943 (aged 29) | Sint-Truidense | |||
FW | Jacques Teugels | 3 August 1946 (aged 25) | Molenbeek | |||
FW | Paul van Himst (c) | 2 October 1943 (aged 28) | 0 | Anderlecht |
Hungary[]
Head coach: Rudolf Illovszky
# | Pos | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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GK | István Géczi | 13 June 1944 (aged 28) | 13 | Ferencvárosi | ||
GK | Imre Rapp | 15 September 1937 (aged 34) | 0 | 2 | Pécsi MSC | |
DF | Tibor Fábián | 26 July 1946 (aged 25) | 9 | Vasas | ||
DF | László Bálint | 1 February 1948 (aged 24) | 6 | Ferencvárosi | ||
DF | Péter Juhász | 3 August 1948 (aged 23) | 15 | Újpesti Dózsa | ||
DF | Miklós Páncsics | 4 February 1944 (aged 28) | 28 | Ferencvárosi | ||
MF | Flórián Albert | 15 September 1941 (aged 30) | 72 | Ferencvárosi | ||
MF | István Juhász | 17 July 1945 (aged 26) | 13 | Ferencvárosi | ||
MF | Lajos Kocsis | 17 June 1947 (aged 24) | 17 | Budapesti Honvéd | ||
MF | József Kovács | 3 April 1949 (aged 23) | 3 | Videoton | ||
MF | Mihály Kozma | 1 November 1949 (aged 22) | 5 | 0 | Budapesti Honvéd | |
MF | Lajos Kű | 5 July 1948 (aged 23) | 3 | 0 | Ferencvárosi | |
MF | István Szőke | 13 February 1947 (aged 25) | 8 | Ferencvárosi | ||
FW | Ferenc Bene (c) | 17 December 1944 (aged 27) | 60 | Újpesti Dózsa | ||
FW | Antal Dunai | 21 March 1943 (aged 29) | 22 | Újpesti Dózsa | ||
FW | Lajos Szűcs | 10 December 1943 (aged 28) | 28 | Budapesti Honvéd | ||
FW | Sándor Zámbó | 10 October 1944 (aged 27) | 24 | 1 | Újpesti Dózsa |
Soviet Union[]
Head coach: Aleksandr Ponomarev
# | Pos | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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GK | Vladimir Pilguy | 26 January 1948 (aged 24) | 1 | Dynamo Moscow | ||
GK | Evhen Rudakov | 2 January 1942 (aged 30) | 23 | Dynamo Kyiv | ||
DF | Nikolay Abramov | 5 January 1950 (aged 22) | 2 | Spartak Moscow | ||
DF | Revaz Dzodzuashvili | 10 April 1945 (aged 27) | 28 | Dinamo Tbilisi | ||
DF | Yuri Istomin | 3 July 1944 (aged 27) | 26 | CSKA Moscow | ||
DF | Vladimir Kaplichny | 26 May 1944 (aged 28) | 38 | CSKA Moscow | ||
DF | Viktor Matvienko | 9 November 1948 (aged 23) | 6 | Dynamo Kyiv | ||
DF | Vladimir Troshkin | 28 September 1947 (aged 24) | 5 | Dynamo Kyiv | ||
MF | Anatoly Baidachny | 1 October 1952 (aged 19) | 3 | Dynamo Moscow | ||
MF | Oleg Dolmatov | 29 November 1948 (aged 23) | 6 | 1 | Dynamo Moscow | |
MF | Murtaz Khurtsilava (c) | 5 January 1943 (aged 29) | 52 | Dinamo Tbilisi | ||
MF | Viktor Kolotov | 3 July 1949 (aged 22) | 14 | Dynamo Kyiv | ||
MF | Anatoly Konjkov | 19 September 1949 (aged 22) | 8 | Shakhtar Donetsk | ||
MF | Vladimir Muntyan | 14 September 1946 (aged 25) | 29 | 0 | Dynamo Kyiv | |
FW | Anatoliy Banishevskiy | 23 December 1946 (aged 25) | 48 | Neftchi Baku | ||
FW | Eduard Kozinkevich | 23 May 1949 (aged 23) | 5 | Karpaty Lviv | ||
FW | Givi Nodia | 2 January 1948 (aged 24) | 18 | Dinamo Tbilisi | ||
FW | Vladimir Onischenko | 28 October 1949 (aged 22) | 1 | Zarya Voroshilovgrad |
West Germany[]
Head coach: Helmut Schön
# | Pos | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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GK | Wolfgang Kleff | 16 November 1946 (aged 25) | 2 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | ||
GK | Sepp Maier | 28 February 1944 (aged 28) | Bayern Munich | |||
DF | Franz Beckenbauer (c) | 11 September 1945 (aged 26) | Bayern Munich | |||
DF | Michael Bella | 29 September 1945 (aged 26) | Duisburg | |||
DF | Paul Breitner | 5 September 1951 (aged 20) | Bayern Munich | |||
DF | Horst-Dieter Höttges | 10 September 1943 (aged 28) | Werder Bremen | |||
DF | Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck | 3 April 1948 (aged 24) | Bayern Munich | |||
DF | Berti Vogts | 30 December 1946 (aged 25) | Borussia Mönchengladbach | |||
MF | Rainer Bonhof | 29 March 1952 (aged 20) | Borussia Mönchengladbach | |||
MF | Uli Hoeneß | 5 January 1952 (aged 20) | Bayern Munich | |||
MF | Horst Köppel | 17 May 1948 (aged 24) | Borussia Mönchengladbach | |||
MF | Günter Netzer | 14 September 1944 (aged 27) | 0 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | ||
FW | Jürgen Grabowski | 7 July 1944 (aged 27) | Eintracht Frankfurt | |||
FW | Jupp Heynckes | 9 May 1945 (aged 27) | Borussia Mönchengladbach | |||
FW | Erwin Kremers | 23 March 1949 (aged 23) | 1 | Schalke 04 | ||
FW | Johannes Löhr | 5 July 1942 (aged 29) | Köln | |||
FW | Gerd Müller | 3 November 1945 (aged 26) | Bayern Munich | |||
FW | Herbert Wimmer | 9 November 1944 (aged 27) | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
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