UEFA Euro 1972 squads

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

External links

• RSSSF

UEFA Euro 1972

Stages

Knockout stage · Final

General information

Squads · Qualification