UEFA Euro 1972 squads
{{Short description|1972 UEFA championship 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
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{{nat fs player|no=1|pos=GK|name=Christian Piot|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1947|10|6|df=y}}|caps=23|club=Standard Liège|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=2|pos=DF|name=Georges Heylens|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1941|8|8|df=y}}|caps=60|club=Anderlecht|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=3|pos=DF|name=Léon Dolmans|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1945|4|6|df=y}}|caps=5|club=Standard Liège|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=4|pos=DF|name=Jean Thissen|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1946|4|21|df=y}}|caps=23|club=Standard Liège|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=5|pos=MF|name=Erwin Vandendaele|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1945|3|5|df=y}}|caps=11|club=Club Brugge|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=6|pos=FW|name=Jean Dockx|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1941|5|24|df=y}}|caps=20|club=Anderlecht|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=7|pos=MF|name=Leon Semmeling|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1940|1|4|df=y}}|caps=28|club=Standard Liège|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=8|pos=DF|name=Maurice Martens|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1947|6|5|df=y}}|caps=4|club=Molenbeek|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=9|pos=FW|name=Raoul Lambert|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1944|10|20|df=y}}|caps=13|club=Club Brugge|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=10|pos=FW|name=Paul van Himst|other=captain|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1943|10|2|df=y}}|caps=65|club=Anderlecht|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=11|pos=MF|name=Jan Verheyen|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1944|7|9|df=y}}|caps=15|club=Anderlecht|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=12|pos=GK|name=Luc Sanders|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1945|10|6|df=y}}|caps=0|club=Club Brugge|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=13|pos=DF|name=Gilbert van Binst|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1951|7|5|df=y}}|caps=0|club=Anderlecht|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=14|pos=FW|name=Odilon Polleunis|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1943|5|1|df=y}}|caps=15|club=Sint-Truidense|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=15|pos=FW|name=Jacques Teugels|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1946|8|3|df=y}}|caps=7|club=Molenbeek|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=16|pos=MF|name=John Thio|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1944|9|2|df=y}}|caps=17|club=Club Brugge|clubnat=Belgium}}
{{nat fs player|no=21|pos=FW|name=Frans Janssens|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1945|9|25|df=y}}|caps=6|club=Lierse|clubnat=Belgium}}
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Hungary
Manager: Rudolf Illovszky
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{{nat fs player|no=1|pos=GK|name=István Géczi|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1944|6|13|df=y}}|caps=13|club=Ferencváros|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=2|pos=DF|name=Tibor Fábián|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1946|7|26|df=y}}|caps=9|club=Vasas|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=3|pos=DF|name=Miklós Páncsics|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1944|2|4|df=y}}|caps=28|club=Ferencváros|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=4|pos=DF|name=Péter Juhász|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1948|8|3|df=y}}|caps=15|club=Újpesti Dózsa|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=5|pos=FW|name=Lajos Szűcs|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1943|12|10|df=y}}|caps=28|club=Budapesti Honvéd|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=6|pos=DF|name=László Bálint|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1948|2|1|df=y}}|caps=6|club=Ferencváros|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=7|pos=MF|name=István Szőke|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1947|2|13|df=y}}|caps=8|club=Ferencváros|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=8|pos=MF|name=Lajos Kocsis|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1947|6|17|df=y}}|caps=17|club=Budapesti Honvéd|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=9|pos=FW|name=Ferenc Bene|other=captain|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1944|12|17|df=y}}|caps=60|club=Újpesti Dózsa|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=10|pos=MF|name=Lajos Kű|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1948|7|5|df=y}}|caps=3|club=Ferencváros|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=11|pos=FW|name=Sándor Zámbó|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1944|10|10|df=y}}|caps=24|club=Újpesti Dózsa|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=12|pos=MF|name=István Juhász|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1945|7|17|df=y}}|caps=13|club=Ferencváros|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=15|pos=FW|name=Antal Dunai|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1943|3|21|df=y}}|caps=22|club=Újpesti Dózsa|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=16|pos=MF|name=József Kovács|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1949|4|8|df=y}}|caps=3|club=Videoton|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=20|pos=MF|name=Mihály Kozma|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1949|11|1|df=y}}|caps=5|club=Budapesti Honvéd|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=22|pos=GK|name=Imre Rapp|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1937|9|15|df=y}}|caps=0|club=Pécsi MSC|clubnat=Hungary}}
{{nat fs player|no=24|pos=MF|name=Flórián Albert|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1941|9|15|df=y}}|caps=72|club=Ferencváros|clubnat=Hungary}}
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Soviet Union
Manager: Aleksandr Ponomarev
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{{nat fs player|no=1|pos=GK|name=Yevhen Rudakov|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1942|1|2|df=y}}|caps=23|club=Dynamo Kyiv|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=2|pos=DF|name=Revaz Dzodzuashvili|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1945|4|10|df=y}}|caps=28|club=Dinamo Tbilisi|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=3|pos=MF|name=Murtaz Khurtsilava|other=captain|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1943|1|5|df=y}}|caps=52|club=Dinamo Tbilisi|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=4|pos=DF|name=Nikolay Abramov|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1950|1|5|df=y}}|caps=2|club=Spartak Moscow|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=5|pos=DF|name=Viktor Matviyenko|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1948|11|9|df=y}}|caps=6|club=Dynamo Kyiv|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=6|pos=MF|name=Viktor Kolotov|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1949|7|3|df=y}}|caps=14|club=Dynamo Kyiv|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=7|pos=DF|name=Vladimir Troshkin|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1947|9|28|df=y}}|caps=5|club=Dynamo Kyiv|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=8|pos=MF|name=Anatoly Baidachny|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1952|10|1|df=y}}|caps=3|club=Dynamo Moscow|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=9|pos=FW|name=Anatoliy Banishevskiy|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1946|12|23|df=y}}|caps=48|club=Neftchi Baku|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=10|pos=MF|name=Vladimir Muntyan|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1946|9|14|df=y}}|caps=29|club=Dynamo Kyiv|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=11|pos=MF|name=Oleg Dolmatov|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1948|11|29|df=y}}|caps=6|club=Dynamo Moscow|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=12|pos=DF|name=Vladimir Kaplichny|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1944|5|26|df=y}}|caps=38|club=CSKA Moscow|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=13|pos=DF|name=Yuri Istomin|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1944|7|3|df=y}}|caps=26|club=CSKA Moscow|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=14|pos=MF|name=Anatoliy Konkov|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1949|9|19|df=y}}|caps=8|club=Shakhtar Donetsk|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=15|pos=FW|name=Eduard Kozynkevych|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1949|5|23|df=y}}|caps=5|club=Karpaty Lviv|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=16|pos=FW|name=Givi Nodia|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1948|1|2|df=y}}|caps=18|club=Dinamo Tbilisi|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=18|pos=FW|name=Volodymyr Onyshchenko|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1949|10|28|df=y}}|caps=1|club=Zorya Voroshylovhrad|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=19|pos=GK|name=Vladimir Pilguy|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1948|1|26|df=y}}|caps=1|club=Dynamo Moscow|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=20|pos=GK|name=Viktor Bannikov|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1938|4|28|df=y}}|caps=12|club=Torpedo Moscow|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=21|pos=DF|name=Mykhailo Fomenko|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1948|9|19|df=y}}|caps=0|club=Dynamo Kyiv|clubnat=USSR}}
{{nat fs player|no=22|pos=FW|name=Levon Ishtoyan|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1947|9|3|df=y}}|caps=6|club=Ararat Yerevan|clubnat=USSR}}
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West Germany
Manager: Helmut Schön
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{{nat fs player|no=1|pos=GK|name=Sepp Maier|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1944|2|28|df=y}}|caps=40|club=Bayern Munich|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=2|pos=DF|name=Horst-Dieter Höttges|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1943|9|10|df=y}}|caps=53|club=Werder Bremen|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=3|pos=DF|name=Paul Breitner|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1951|9|5|df=y}}|caps=7|club=Bayern Munich|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=4|pos=DF|name=Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1948|4|3|df=y}}|caps=12|club=Bayern Munich|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=5|pos=DF|name=Franz Beckenbauer|other=captain|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1945|9|11|df=y}}|caps=61|club=Bayern Munich|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=6|pos=MF|name=Herbert Wimmer|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1944|11|9|df=y}}|caps=16|club=Borussia Mönchengladbach|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=7|pos=FW|name=Jürgen Grabowski|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1944|7|7|df=y}}|caps=26|club=Eintracht Frankfurt|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=8|pos=FW|name=Uli Hoeneß|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1952|1|5|df=y}}|caps=10|club=Bayern Munich|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=9|pos=FW|name=Jupp Heynckes|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1945|5|9|df=y}}|caps=17|club=Borussia Mönchengladbach|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=10|pos=MF|name=Günter Netzer|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1944|9|14|df=y}}|caps=29|club=Borussia Mönchengladbach|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=11|pos=FW|name=Erwin Kremers|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1949|3|23|df=y}}|caps=2|club=Schalke 04|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=13|pos=FW|name=Gerd Müller|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1945|11|3|df=y}}|caps=40|club=Bayern Munich|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=14|pos=DF|name=Berti Vogts|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1946|12|30|df=y}}|caps=42|club=Borussia Mönchengladbach|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=15|pos=MF|name=Rainer Bonhof|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1952|3|29|df=y}}|caps=1|club=Borussia Mönchengladbach|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=16|pos=DF|name=Michael Bella|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1945|9|29|df=y}}|caps=4|club=MSV Duisburg|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=17|pos=FW|name=Johannes Löhr|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1942|7|5|df=y}}|caps=20|club=1. FC Köln|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=18|pos=MF|name=Horst Köppel|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1948|5|17|df=y}}|caps=9|club=Borussia Mönchengladbach|clubnat=West Germany}}
{{nat fs player|no=22|pos=GK|name=Wolfgang Kleff|age={{birth date and age2|1972|6|14|1946|11|16|df=y}}|caps=2|club=Borussia Mönchengladbach|clubnat=West Germany}}
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External links
- [https://www.rsssf.org/tables/72e-full.html RSSSF]
- weltfussball.de [https://www.weltfussball.de/spieler/em-1972-in-belgien/]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20200701073610/http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/history/1972.html Soviet Union squad roster]. www.rusteam.permian.ru
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