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 | GK | Christian Piot | 6 October 1947 (aged 24) | .svg.png){kind=small} | |
| 2 | DF | Georges Heylens | 8 August 1941 (aged 30) | | |
| 3 | DF | Léon Dolmans | 6 April 1945 (aged 27) | | |
| 4 | DF | Jean Thissen | 21 April 1946 (aged 26) | | |
| 5 | MF | Erwin Vandendaele | 5 March 1945 (aged 27) | | |
| 6 | FW | Jean Dockx | 24 May 1941 (aged 31) | | |
| 7 | MF | Leon Semmeling | 4 January 1940 (aged 32) | | |
| 8 | DF | Maurice Martens | 5 June 1947 (aged 25) | | |
| 9 | FW | Raoul Lambert | 20 October 1944 (aged 27) | | |
| 10 | FW | Paul van Himst (captain) | 2 October 1943 (aged 28) | | |
| 11 | MF | Jan Verheyen | 9 July 1944 (aged 27) | | |
| 12 | GK | Luc Sanders | 6 October 1945 (aged 26) | | |
| 13 | DF | Gilbert van Binst | 5 July 1951 (aged 20) | | |
| 14 | FW | Odilon Polleunis | 1 May 1943 (aged 29) | | |
| 15 | FW | Jacques Teugels | 3 August 1946 (aged 25) | | |
| 16 | MF | John Thio | 2 September 1944 (aged 27) | | |
| 21 | FW | Frans Janssens | 25 September 1945 (aged 26) | |
Hungary
Manager: Rudolf Illovszky
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | István Géczi | 13 June 1944 (aged 28) | 13 |  |
| 2 | DF | Tibor Fábián | 26 July 1946 (aged 25) | 9 | |
| 3 | DF | Miklós Páncsics | 4 February 1944 (aged 28) | 28 | |
| 4 | DF | Péter Juhász | 3 August 1948 (aged 23) | 15 | |
| 5 | FW | Lajos Szűcs | 10 December 1943 (aged 28) | 28 | |
| 6 | DF | László Bálint | 1 February 1948 (aged 24) | 6 | |
| 7 | MF | István Szőke | 13 February 1947 (aged 25) | 8 | |
| 8 | MF | Lajos Kocsis | 17 June 1947 (aged 24) | 17 | |
| 9 | FW | Ferenc Bene (captain) | 17 December 1944 (aged 27) | 60 | |
| 10 | MF | Lajos Kű | 5 July 1948 (aged 23) | 3 | |
| 11 | FW | Sándor Zámbó | 10 October 1944 (aged 27) | 24 | |
| 12 | MF | István Juhász | 17 July 1945 (aged 26) | 13 | |
| 15 | FW | Antal Dunai | 21 March 1943 (aged 29) | 22 | |
| 16 | MF | József Kovács | 3 April 1949 (aged 23) | 3 | |
| 20 | MF | Mihály Kozma | 1 November 1949 (aged 22) | 5 | |
| 22 | GK | Imre Rapp | 15 September 1937 (aged 34) | 0 | |
| 24 | MF | Flórián Albert | 15 September 1941 (aged 30) | 72 | |
Soviet Union
Manager: Aleksandr Ponomarev
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Evhen Rudakov | 2 January 1942 (aged 30) | 23 |  |
| 2 | DF | Revaz Dzodzuashvili | 10 April 1945 (aged 27) | 28 | |
| 3 | MF | Murtaz Khurtsilava (captain) | 5 January 1943 (aged 29) | 52 | |
| 4 | DF | Nikolay Abramov | 5 January 1950 (aged 22) | 2 | |
| 5 | DF | Viktor Matvienko | 9 November 1948 (aged 23) | 6 | |
| 6 | MF | Viktor Kolotov | 3 July 1949 (aged 22) | 14 | |
| 7 | DF | Vladimir Troshkin | 28 September 1947 (aged 24) | 5 | |
| 8 | MF | Anatoly Baidachny | 1 October 1952 (aged 19) | 3 | |
| 9 | FW | Anatoliy Banishevskiy | 23 December 1946 (aged 25) | 48 | |
| 10 | MF | Vladimir Muntyan | 14 September 1946 (aged 25) | 29 | |
| 11 | MF | Oleg Dolmatov | 29 November 1948 (aged 23) | 6 | |
| 12 | DF | Vladimir Kaplichny | 26 May 1944 (aged 28) | 38 | |
| 13 | DF | Yuri Istomin | 3 July 1944 (aged 27) | 26 | |
| 14 | MF | Anatoly Konkov | 19 September 1949 (aged 22) | 8 | |
| 15 | FW | Eduard Kozinkevich | 23 May 1949 (aged 23) | 5 | |
| 16 | FW | Givi Nodia | 2 January 1948 (aged 24) | 18 | |
| 18 | FW | Vladimir Onischenko | 28 October 1949 (aged 22) | 1 | |
| 19 | GK | Vladimir Pilguy | 26 January 1948 (aged 24) | 1 | |
West Germany
Manager: Helmut Schön
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Sepp Maier | 28 February 1944 (aged 28) |  | |
| 2 | DF | Horst-Dieter Höttges | 10 September 1943 (aged 28) | | |
| 3 | DF | Paul Breitner | 5 September 1951 (aged 20) | | |
| 4 | DF | Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck | 3 April 1948 (aged 24) | | |
| 5 | DF | Franz Beckenbauer (captain) | 11 September 1945 (aged 26) | | |
| 6 | MF | Herbert Wimmer | 9 November 1944 (aged 27) | | |
| 7 | FW | Jürgen Grabowski | 7 July 1944 (aged 27) | | |
| 8 | FW | Uli Hoeneß | 5 January 1952 (aged 20) | | |
| 9 | FW | Jupp Heynckes | 9 May 1945 (aged 27) | | |
| 10 | MF | Günter Netzer | 14 September 1944 (aged 27) | | |
| 11 | FW | Erwin Kremers | 23 March 1949 (aged 23) | | |
| 13 | FW | Gerd Müller | 3 November 1945 (aged 26) | | |
| 14 | DF | Berti Vogts | 30 December 1946 (aged 25) | | |
| 15 | MF | Rainer Bonhof | 29 March 1952 (aged 20) | | |
| 16 | DF | Michael Bella | 29 September 1945 (aged 26) | | |
| 17 | FW | Johannes Löhr | 5 July 1942 (aged 29) | | |
| 18 | MF | Horst Köppel | 17 May 1948 (aged 24) | | |
| 22 | GK | Wolfgang Kleff | 16 November 1946 (aged 25) | |
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