Monday, August 24, 2026

European Championship Finals

 

Final Tournament (in Belgium)

Belgium

Manager: Raymond Goethals

No.

Pos.

Player

Date of birth (age)

Caps

Club

1

GK

Christian Piot

6 October 1947 (aged 24)

23

 Standard Liège

2

DF

Georges Heylens

8 August 1941 (aged 30)

60

 Anderlecht

3

DF

Léon Dolmans

6 April 1945 (aged 27)

5

 Standard Liège

4

DF

Jean Thissen

21 April 1946 (aged 26)

23

 Standard Liège

5

MF

Erwin Vandendaele

5 March 1945 (aged 27)

11

 Club Brugge

6

FW

Jean Dockx

24 May 1941 (aged 31)

20

 Anderlecht

7

MF

Leon Semmeling

4 January 1940 (aged 32)

28

 Standard Liège

8

DF

Maurice Martens

5 June 1947 (aged 25)

4

 Molenbeek

9

FW

Raoul Lambert

20 October 1944 (aged 27)

13

 Club Brugge

10

FW

Paul van Himst (captain)

2 October 1943 (aged 28)

65

 Anderlecht

11

MF

Jan Verheyen

9 July 1944 (aged 27)

15

 Anderlecht

12

GK

Luc Sanders

6 October 1945 (aged 26)

0

 Club Brugge

13

DF

Gilbert van Binst

5 July 1951 (aged 20)

0

 Anderlecht

14

FW

Odilon Polleunis

1 May 1943 (aged 29)

15

 Sint-Truidense

15

FW

Jacques Teugels

3 August 1946 (aged 25)

7

 Molenbeek

16

MF

John Thio

2 September 1944 (aged 27)

17

 Club Brugge

21

FW

Frans Janssens

25 September 1945 (aged 26)

6

 Lierse

Hungary

Manager: Rudolf Illovszky

No.

Pos.

Player

Date of birth (age)

Caps

Club

1

GK

István Géczi

13 June 1944 (aged 28)

13

 Ferencváros

2

DF

Tibor Fábián

26 July 1946 (aged 25)

9

 Vasas

3

DF

Miklós Páncsics

4 February 1944 (aged 28)

28

 Ferencváros

4

DF

Péter Juhász

3 August 1948 (aged 23)

15

 Újpesti Dózsa

5

FW

Lajos Szűcs

10 December 1943 (aged 28)

28

 Budapesti Honvéd

6

DF

László Bálint

1 February 1948 (aged 24)

6

 Ferencváros

7

MF

István Szőke

13 February 1947 (aged 25)

8

 Ferencváros

8

MF

Lajos Kocsis

17 June 1947 (aged 24)

17

 Budapesti Honvéd

9

FW

Ferenc Bene (captain)

17 December 1944 (aged 27)

60

 Újpesti Dózsa

10

MF

Lajos Kű

5 July 1948 (aged 23)

3

 Ferencváros

11

FW

Sándor Zámbó

10 October 1944 (aged 27)

24

 Újpesti Dózsa

12

MF

István Juhász

17 July 1945 (aged 26)

13

 Ferencváros

15

FW

Antal Dunai

21 March 1943 (aged 29)

22

 Újpesti Dózsa

16

MF

József Kovács

8 April 1949 (aged 23)

3

 Videoton

20

MF

Mihály Kozma

1 November 1949 (aged 22)

5

 Budapesti Honvéd

22

GK

Imre Rapp

15 September 1937 (aged 34)

0

 Pécsi MSC

24

MF

Flórián Albert

15 September 1941 (aged 30)

72

 Ferencváros

Soviet Union

Manager: Aleksandr Ponomarev

No.

Pos.

Player

Date of birth (age)

Caps

Club

1

GK

Yevhen Rudakov

2 January 1942 (aged 30)

23

 Dynamo Kyiv

2

DF

Revaz Dzodzuashvili

10 April 1945 (aged 27)

28

 Dinamo Tbilisi

3

MF

Murtaz Khurtsilava (captain)

5 January 1943 (aged 29)

52

 Dinamo Tbilisi

4

DF

Nikolay Abramov

5 January 1950 (aged 22)

2

 Spartak Moscow

5

DF

Viktor Matviyenko

9 November 1948 (aged 23)

6

 Dynamo Kyiv

6

MF

Viktor Kolotov

3 July 1949 (aged 22)

14

 Dynamo Kyiv

7

DF

Vladimir Troshkin

28 September 1947 (aged 24)

5

 Dynamo Kyiv

8

MF

Anatoly Baidachny

1 October 1952 (aged 19)

3

 Dynamo Moscow

9

FW

Anatoliy Banishevskiy

23 December 1946 (aged 25)

48

 Neftchi Baku

10

MF

Vladimir Muntyan

14 September 1946 (aged 25)

29

 Dynamo Kyiv

11

MF

Oleg Dolmatov

29 November 1948 (aged 23)

6

 Dynamo Moscow

12

DF

Vladimir Kaplichny

26 May 1944 (aged 28)

38

 CSKA Moscow

13

DF

Yuri Istomin

3 July 1944 (aged 27)

26

 CSKA Moscow

14

MF

Anatoliy Konkov

19 September 1949 (aged 22)

8

 Shakhtar Donetsk

15

FW

Eduard Kozynkevych

23 May 1949 (aged 23)

5

 Karpaty Lviv

16

FW

Givi Nodia

2 January 1948 (aged 24)

18

 Dinamo Tbilisi

18

FW

Volodymyr Onyshchenko

28 October 1949 (aged 22)

1

 Zorya Voroshylovhrad

19

GK

Vladimir Pilguy

26 January 1948 (aged 24)

1

 Dynamo Moscow

20

GK

Viktor Bannikov

28 April 1938 (aged 34)

12

 Torpedo Moscow

21

DF

Mykhailo Fomenko

19 September 1948 (aged 23)

0

 Dynamo Kyiv

22

FW

Levon Ishtoyan

3 September 1947 (aged 24)

6

 Ararat Yerevan

West Germany

Manager: Helmut Schön

No.

Pos.

Player

Date of birth (age)

Caps

Club

1

GK

Sepp Maier

28 February 1944 (aged 28)

40

 Bayern Munich

2

DF

Horst-Dieter Höttges

10 September 1943 (aged 28)

53

 Werder Bremen

3

DF

Paul Breitner

5 September 1951 (aged 20)

7

 Bayern Munich

4

DF

Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck

3 April 1948 (aged 24)

12

 Bayern Munich

5

DF

Franz Beckenbauer (captain)

11 September 1945 (aged 26)

61

 Bayern Munich

6

MF

Herbert Wimmer

9 November 1944 (aged 27)

16

 Borussia Mönchengladbach

7

FW

Jürgen Grabowski

7 July 1944 (aged 27)

26

 Eintracht Frankfurt

8

FW

Uli Hoeneß

5 January 1952 (aged 20)

10

 Bayern Munich

9

FW

Jupp Heynckes

9 May 1945 (aged 27)

17

 Borussia Mönchengladbach

10

MF

Günter Netzer

14 September 1944 (aged 27)

29

 Borussia Mönchengladbach

11

FW

Erwin Kremers

23 March 1949 (aged 23)

2

 Schalke 04

13

FW

Gerd Müller

3 November 1945 (aged 26)

40

 Bayern Munich

14

DF

Berti Vogts

30 December 1946 (aged 25)

42

 Borussia Mönchengladbach

15

MF

Rainer Bonhof

29 March 1952 (aged 20)

1

 Borussia Mönchengladbach

16

DF

Michael Bella

29 September 1945 (aged 26)

4

 MSV Duisburg

17

FW

Johannes Löhr

5 July 1942 (aged 29)

20

 1. FC Köln

18

MF

Horst Köppel

17 May 1948 (aged 24)

9

 Borussia Mönchengladbach

22

GK

Wolfgang Kleff

16 November 1946 (aged 25)

2

 Borussia Mönchengladbach




SEMIFINALS  

Antwerpen, June 14, Bosuil
West Germany     2-1 Belgium
  [G.Müller 24, 71; Polleunis 83]
  [ref: Mullen (Scotland); att: 56,000]
West Germany: Maier, Höttges, Beckenbauer, Schwarzenbeck, Breitner, U.Hoeneß 
              (Grabowski 58), Wimmer, Netzer, Heynckes, G.Müller, E.Kremers
Belgium: Piot, Heylens, Van den Daele, Thissen, Dolmans, Dockx, Verheyen,
         M.Martens (Polleunis 70), Semmeling, Van Himst, Lambert 

Brussel, June 14, Astridpark Soviet Union 1-0 Hungary [Konkov 53] [missed penalty: Zámbö 85 (saved)] [ref: Glöckner (East Germany); att: 2,000] Soviet Union: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Kaplichny, Istomin, Khurtsilava, Kolotov, Troshkin, Baidachni, Banishevski (70 G.Nodia), Konkov, Onishenko Hungary: Géczi, Fábián, Páncsics, Bálint, P.Juhász, I.Juhász, Kocsis (60 Albert), Kü, Szöke, Bene (60 A.Dunai), Zámbö

MATCH FOR THIRD PLACE Ličge, June 17, Stade Sclessin Belgium 2-1 Hungary [Lambert 24, Van Himst 28, Kü 53pen] [ref: Boström (Sweden); att: 9,000] Belgium: Piot, Heylens, Van den Daele, Thissen, Dolmans, Dockx, Verheyen, Polleunis, Semmeling, Van Himst, Lambert Hungary: Géczi, Fábián, Páncsics, Bálint, P.Juhász, I.Juhász, Kü, Abert, Kozma, A.Dunai, Zámbö (46 Szücs)

FINAL
Bruxelles, June 18, Stade Heysel West Germany 3-0 Soviet Union [G.Müller 27, 58, Wimmer 52] [ref: Marschall (Austria), att: 50,000] West Germany: Maier, Höttges, Beckenbauer, Schwarzenbeck, Breitner, U.Hoeneß, Wimmer, Netzer, Heynckes, G.Müller, E.Kremers Soviet Union: Rudakov, Dzodzuashvili, Kaplichny, Istomin, Khurtsilava, Kolotov, Troshkin, Baidachni, Banishevsky (66 Kozinkevich), Konkov (46 Dolmatov), Onishenko




Topscorer overall: G.Müller (West Germany) 11 goals Topscorer final tournament: G.Müller (West Germany) 4 goals