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

Manager: Raymond Goethals

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Club
1 1GK Christian Piot (1947-10-06)6 October 1947 (aged 24) Standard Liège
2 2DF Georges Heylens (1941-08-08)8 August 1941 (aged 30) Anderlecht
3 2DF Léon Dolmans (1945-04-06)6 April 1945 (aged 27) Standard Liège
4 2DF Jean Thissen (1946-04-21)21 April 1946 (aged 26) Standard Liège
5 3MF Erwin Vandendaele (1945-03-05)5 March 1945 (aged 27) Club Brugge
6 4FW Jean Dockx (1941-05-24)24 May 1941 (aged 31) Anderlecht
7 3MF Leon Semmeling (1940-01-04)4 January 1940 (aged 32) Standard Liège
8 2DF Maurice Martens (1947-06-05)5 June 1947 (aged 25) Molenbeek
9 4FW Raoul Lambert (1944-10-20)20 October 1944 (aged 27) Club Brugge
10 4FW Paul van Himst (captain) (1943-10-02)2 October 1943 (aged 28) Anderlecht
11 3MF Jan Verheyen (1944-07-09)9 July 1944 (aged 27) Anderlecht
12 1GK Luc Sanders (1945-10-06)6 October 1945 (aged 26) Club Brugge
13 2DF Gilbert van Binst (1951-07-05)5 July 1951 (aged 20) Anderlecht
14 4FW Odilon Polleunis (1943-05-01)1 May 1943 (aged 29) Sint-Truidense
15 4FW Jacques Teugels (1946-08-03)3 August 1946 (aged 25) Molenbeek
16 3MF John Thio (1944-09-02)2 September 1944 (aged 27) Club Brugge
21 4FW Frans Janssens (1945-09-25)25 September 1945 (aged 26) Lierse

Hungary

Manager: Rudolf Illovszky

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Club
1 1GK István Géczi (1944-06-13)13 June 1944 (aged 28) 13 Ferencvárosi
2 2DF Tibor Fábián (1946-07-26)26 July 1946 (aged 25) 9 Vasas
3 2DF Miklós Páncsics (1944-02-04)4 February 1944 (aged 28) 28 Ferencvárosi
4 2DF Péter Juhász (1948-08-03)3 August 1948 (aged 23) 15 Újpesti Dózsa
5 4FW Lajos Szűcs (1943-12-10)10 December 1943 (aged 28) 28 Budapesti Honvéd
6 2DF László Bálint (1948-02-01)1 February 1948 (aged 24) 6 Ferencvárosi
7 3MF István Szőke (1947-02-13)13 February 1947 (aged 25) 8 Ferencvárosi
8 3MF Lajos Kocsis (1947-06-17)17 June 1947 (aged 24) 17 Budapesti Honvéd
9 4FW Ferenc Bene (captain) (1944-12-17)17 December 1944 (aged 27) 60 Újpesti Dózsa
10 3MF Lajos Kű (1948-07-05)5 July 1948 (aged 23) 3 Ferencvárosi
11 4FW Sándor Zámbó (1944-10-10)10 October 1944 (aged 27) 24 Újpesti Dózsa
12 3MF István Juhász (1945-07-17)17 July 1945 (aged 26) 13 Ferencvárosi
15 4FW Antal Dunai (1943-03-21)21 March 1943 (aged 29) 22 Újpesti Dózsa
16 3MF József Kovács (1949-04-03)3 April 1949 (aged 23) 3 Videoton
20 3MF Mihály Kozma (1949-11-01)1 November 1949 (aged 22) 5 Budapesti Honvéd
22 1GK Imre Rapp (1937-09-15)15 September 1937 (aged 34) 0 Pécsi MSC
24 3MF Flórián Albert (1941-09-15)15 September 1941 (aged 30) 72 Ferencvárosi

Soviet Union

Manager: Aleksandr Ponomarev

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Club
1 1GK Evhen Rudakov (1942-01-02)2 January 1942 (aged 30) 23 Dynamo Kyiv
2 2DF Revaz Dzodzuashvili (1945-04-10)10 April 1945 (aged 27) 28 Dinamo Tbilisi
3 3MF Murtaz Khurtsilava (captain) (1943-01-05)5 January 1943 (aged 29) 52 Dinamo Tbilisi
4 2DF Nikolay Abramov (1950-01-05)5 January 1950 (aged 22) 2 Spartak Moscow
5 2DF Viktor Matvienko (1948-11-09)9 November 1948 (aged 23) 6 Dynamo Kyiv
6 3MF Viktor Kolotov (1949-07-03)3 July 1949 (aged 22) 14 Dynamo Kyiv
7 2DF Vladimir Troshkin (1947-09-28)28 September 1947 (aged 24) 5 Dynamo Kyiv
8 3MF Anatoly Baidachny (1952-10-01)1 October 1952 (aged 19) 3 Dynamo Moscow
9 4FW Anatoliy Banishevskiy (1946-12-23)23 December 1946 (aged 25) 48 Neftchi Baku
10 3MF Vladimir Muntyan (1946-09-14)14 September 1946 (aged 25) 29 Dynamo Kyiv
11 3MF Oleg Dolmatov (1948-11-29)29 November 1948 (aged 23) 6 Dynamo Moscow
12 2DF Vladimir Kaplichny (1944-05-26)26 May 1944 (aged 28) 38 CSKA Moscow
13 2DF Yuri Istomin (1944-07-03)3 July 1944 (aged 27) 26 CSKA Moscow
14 3MF Anatoly Konkov (1949-09-19)19 September 1949 (aged 22) 8 Shakhtar Donetsk
15 4FW Eduard Kozinkevich (1949-05-23)23 May 1949 (aged 23) 5 Karpaty Lviv
16 4FW Givi Nodia (1948-01-02)2 January 1948 (aged 24) 18 Dinamo Tbilisi
18 4FW Vladimir Onischenko (1949-10-28)28 October 1949 (aged 22) 1 Zarya Voroshilovgrad
19 1GK Vladimir Pilguy (1948-01-26)26 January 1948 (aged 24) 1 Dynamo Moscow

West Germany

Manager: Helmut Schön

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Club
1 1GK Sepp Maier (1944-02-28)28 February 1944 (aged 28) Bayern Munich
2 2DF Horst-Dieter Höttges (1943-09-10)10 September 1943 (aged 28) Werder Bremen
3 2DF Paul Breitner (1951-09-05)5 September 1951 (aged 20) Bayern Munich
4 2DF Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (1948-04-03)3 April 1948 (aged 24) Bayern Munich
5 2DF Franz Beckenbauer (captain) (1945-09-11)11 September 1945 (aged 26) Bayern Munich
6 3MF Herbert Wimmer (1944-11-09)9 November 1944 (aged 27) Borussia Mönchengladbach
7 4FW Jürgen Grabowski (1944-07-07)7 July 1944 (aged 27) Eintracht Frankfurt
8 4FW Uli Hoeneß (1952-01-05)5 January 1952 (aged 20) Bayern Munich
9 4FW Jupp Heynckes (1945-05-09)9 May 1945 (aged 27) Borussia Mönchengladbach
10 3MF Günter Netzer (1944-09-14)14 September 1944 (aged 27) Borussia Mönchengladbach
11 4FW Erwin Kremers (1949-03-23)23 March 1949 (aged 23) Schalke 04
13 4FW Gerd Müller (1945-11-03)3 November 1945 (aged 26) Bayern Munich
14 2DF Berti Vogts (1946-12-30)30 December 1946 (aged 25) Borussia Mönchengladbach
15 3MF Rainer Bonhof (1952-03-29)29 March 1952 (aged 20) Borussia Mönchengladbach
16 2DF Michael Bella (1945-09-29)29 September 1945 (aged 26) MSV Duisburg
17 4FW Johannes Löhr (1942-07-05)5 July 1942 (aged 29) 1. FC Köln
18 3MF Horst Köppel (1948-05-17)17 May 1948 (aged 24) Borussia Mönchengladbach
22 1GK Wolfgang Kleff (1946-11-16)16 November 1946 (aged 25) Borussia Mönchengladbach
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