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.

Manager: Raymond Goethals

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Christian Piot	(1947-10-06)6 October 1947 (aged 24)	23	Standard Liège
2	2DF	Georges Heylens	(1941-08-08)8 August 1941 (aged 30)	60	Anderlecht
3	2DF	Léon Dolmans	(1945-04-06)6 April 1945 (aged 27)	5	Standard Liège
4	2DF	Jean Thissen	(1946-04-21)21 April 1946 (aged 26)	23	Standard Liège
5	3MF	Erwin Vandendaele	(1945-03-05)5 March 1945 (aged 27)	11	Club Brugge
6	4FW	Jean Dockx	(1941-05-24)24 May 1941 (aged 31)	20	Anderlecht
7	3MF	Leon Semmeling	(1940-01-04)4 January 1940 (aged 32)	28	Standard Liège
8	2DF	Maurice Martens	(1947-06-05)5 June 1947 (aged 25)	4	Molenbeek
9	4FW	Raoul Lambert	(1944-10-20)20 October 1944 (aged 27)	13	Club Brugge
10	4FW	Paul van Himst (captain)	(1943-10-02)2 October 1943 (aged 28)	65	Anderlecht
11	3MF	Jan Verheyen	(1944-07-09)9 July 1944 (aged 27)	15	Anderlecht
12	1GK	Luc Sanders	(1945-10-06)6 October 1945 (aged 26)	0	Club Brugge
13	2DF	Gilbert van Binst	(1951-07-05)5 July 1951 (aged 20)	0	Anderlecht
14	4FW	Odilon Polleunis	(1943-05-01)1 May 1943 (aged 29)	15	Sint-Truidense
15	4FW	Jacques Teugels	(1946-08-03)3 August 1946 (aged 25)	7	Molenbeek
16	3MF	John Thio	(1944-09-02)2 September 1944 (aged 27)	17	Club Brugge
21	4FW	Frans Janssens	(1945-09-25)25 September 1945 (aged 26)	6	Lierse

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	Ferencváros
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	Ferencváros
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	Ferencváros
7	3MF	István Szőke	(1947-02-13)13 February 1947 (aged 25)	8	Ferencváros
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	Ferencváros
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	Ferencváros
15	4FW	Antal Dunai	(1943-03-21)21 March 1943 (aged 29)	22	Újpesti Dózsa
16	3MF	József Kovács	(1949-04-08)8 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	Ferencváros

Manager: Aleksandr Ponomarev

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Yevhen 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 Matviyenko	(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	Anatoliy Konkov	(1949-09-19)19 September 1949 (aged 22)	8	Shakhtar Donetsk
15	4FW	Eduard Kozynkevych	(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	Volodymyr Onyshchenko	(1949-10-28)28 October 1949 (aged 22)	1	Zorya Voroshylovhrad
19	1GK	Vladimir Pilguy	(1948-01-26)26 January 1948 (aged 24)	1	Dynamo Moscow

Manager: Helmut Schön

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Sepp Maier	(1944-02-28)28 February 1944 (aged 28)	40	Bayern Munich
2	2DF	Horst-Dieter Höttges	(1943-09-10)10 September 1943 (aged 28)	53	Werder Bremen
3	2DF	Paul Breitner	(1951-09-05)5 September 1951 (aged 20)	7	Bayern Munich
4	2DF	Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck	(1948-04-03)3 April 1948 (aged 24)	12	Bayern Munich
5	2DF	Franz Beckenbauer (captain)	(1945-09-11)11 September 1945 (aged 26)	61	Bayern Munich
6	3MF	Herbert Wimmer	(1944-11-09)9 November 1944 (aged 27)	16	Borussia Mönchengladbach
7	4FW	Jürgen Grabowski	(1944-07-07)7 July 1944 (aged 27)	26	Eintracht Frankfurt
8	4FW	Uli Hoeneß	(1952-01-05)5 January 1952 (aged 20)	10	Bayern Munich
9	4FW	Jupp Heynckes	(1945-05-09)9 May 1945 (aged 27)	17	Borussia Mönchengladbach
10	3MF	Günter Netzer	(1944-09-14)14 September 1944 (aged 27)	29	Borussia Mönchengladbach
11	4FW	Erwin Kremers	(1949-03-23)23 March 1949 (aged 23)	2	Schalke 04
13	4FW	Gerd Müller	(1945-11-03)3 November 1945 (aged 26)	40	Bayern Munich
14	2DF	Berti Vogts	(1946-12-30)30 December 1946 (aged 25)	42	Borussia Mönchengladbach
15	3MF	Rainer Bonhof	(1952-03-29)29 March 1952 (aged 20)	1	Borussia Mönchengladbach
16	2DF	Michael Bella	(1945-09-29)29 September 1945 (aged 26)	4	MSV Duisburg
17	4FW	Johannes Löhr	(1942-07-05)5 July 1942 (aged 29)	20	1. FC Köln
18	3MF	Horst Köppel	(1948-05-17)17 May 1948 (aged 24)	9	Borussia Mönchengladbach
22	1GK	Wolfgang Kleff	(1946-11-16)16 November 1946 (aged 25)	2	Borussia Mönchengladbach

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