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

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

Hungary

Head coach: Rudolf Illovszky

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

Soviet Union

Head coach: Aleksandr Ponomarev

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 19 1GK Vladimir Pilguy (1948-01-26)26 January 1948 (aged 24) 1 Dynamo Moscow 1 1GK Evhen Rudakov (1942-01-02)2 January 1942 (aged 30) 23 Dynamo Kyiv 4 2DF Nikolay Abramov (1950-01-05)5 January 1950 (aged 22) 2 Spartak Moscow 2 2DF Revaz Dzodzuashvili (1945-04-10)10 April 1945 (aged 27) 28 Dinamo Tbilisi 13 2DF Yuri Istomin (1944-07-03)3 July 1944 (aged 27) 26 CSKA Moscow 12 2DF Vladimir Kaplichny (1944-05-26)26 May 1944 (aged 28) 38 CSKA Moscow 5 2DF Viktor Matvienko (1948-11-09)9 November 1948 (aged 23) 6 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 11 3MF Oleg Dolmatov (1948-11-29)29 November 1948 (aged 23) 6 Dynamo Moscow 3 3MF Murtaz Khurtsilava (c) (1943-01-05)5 January 1943 (aged 29) 52 Dinamo Tbilisi 6 3MF Viktor Kolotov (1949-07-03)3 July 1949 (aged 22) 14 Dynamo Kyiv 14 3MF Anatoly Konjkov (1949-09-19)19 September 1949 (aged 22) 8 Shakhtar Donetsk 10 3MF Vladimir Muntyan (1946-09-14)14 September 1946 (aged 25) 29 Dynamo Kyiv 9 4FW Anatoliy Banishevskiy (1946-12-23)23 December 1946 (aged 25) 48 Neftchi Baku 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

West Germany

Head coach: Helmut Schön

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

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