UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament

The **UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament** is a team of the best performers at a UEFA European Championship. The team is chosen by the UEFA Technical Study Group, and was first awarded in 1996. Teams were later retroactively named for the best 11 players from the 1960 to 1992 tournaments.

## Teams

|Edition|Goalkeepers|Defenders|Midfielders|Forwards|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|France 1960 (11 player squad)|Lev Yashin|Vladimir Durković Ladislav Novák|Igor Netto Josef Masopust Valentin Ivanov Dragoslav Šekularac Bora Kostić|Slava Metreveli Milan Galić Viktor Ponedelnik|
|Spain 1964 (11 player squad)|Lev Yashin|Feliciano Rivilla Dezső Novák Ferran Olivella|Ignacio Zoco Amancio Amaro Valentin Ivanov Chus Pereda|Ferenc Bene Flórián Albert Luis Suárez|
|Italy 1968 (11 player squad)|Dino Zoff|Mirsad Fazlagić Giacinto Facchetti Bobby Moore Albert Shesternyov|Dragan Džajić Angelo Domenghini Sandro Mazzola Ivica Osim|Geoff Hurst Luigi Riva|
|Belgium 1972 (11 player squad)|Yevhen Rudakov|Revaz Dzodzuashvili Paul Breitner Murtaz Khurtsilava Franz Beckenbauer|Herbert Wimmer Uli Hoeneß Günter Netzer|Jupp Heynckes Gerd Müller Raoul Lambert|
|Yugoslavia 1976 (11 player squad)|Ivo Viktor|Ján Pivarník Ruud Krol Franz Beckenbauer Anton Ondruš|Jaroslav Pollák Rainer Bonhof Dragan Džajić Antonín Panenka|Zdeněk Nehoda Dieter Müller|
|Italy 1980 (11 player squad)|Dino Zoff|Claudio Gentile Karlheinz Förster Gaetano Scirea Hans-Peter Briegel|Jan Ceulemans Marco Tardelli Bernd Schuster Hansi Müller|Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Horst Hrubesch|
|France 1984 (11 player squad)|Harald Schumacher|João Pinto Karlheinz Förster Morten Olsen Andreas Brehme|Fernando Chalana Jean Tigana Michel Platini Alain Giresse Frank Arnesen|Rudi Völler|
|West Germany 1988 (11 player squad)|Hans van Breukelen|Giuseppe Bergomi Frank Rijkaard Ronald Koeman Paolo Maldini|Ruud Gullit Jan Wouters Giuseppe Giannini Lothar Matthäus|Marco van Basten Gianluca Vialli|
|Sweden 1992 (11 player squad)|Peter Schmeichel|Jocelyn Angloma Laurent Blanc Andreas Brehme Jürgen Kohler|Stefan Effenberg Ruud Gullit Thomas Häßler Brian Laudrup|Marco van Basten Dennis Bergkamp|
|England 1996 (18 player squad)|David Seaman Andreas Köpke|Radoslav Látal Laurent Blanc Marcel Desailly Matthias Sammer Paolo Maldini|Didier Deschamps Steve McManaman Paul Gascoigne Rui Costa Karel Poborský Dieter Eilts|Alan Shearer Hristo Stoichkov Davor Šuker Youri Djorkaeff Pavel Kuka|
|Belgium and Netherlands 2000 (22 player squad)|Francesco Toldo Fabien Barthez|Lilian Thuram Laurent Blanc Marcel Desailly Alessandro Nesta Fabio Cannavaro Paolo Maldini Frank de Boer|Patrick Vieira Zinedine Zidane Luís Figo Rui Costa Edgar Davids Demetrio Albertini Pep Guardiola|Thierry Henry Patrick Kluivert Nuno Gomes Raúl Francesco Totti Savo Milošević|
|Portugal 2004 (23 player squad)|Petr Čech Antonios Nikopolidis|Sol Campbell Ashley Cole Traianos Dellas Olof Mellberg Ricardo Carvalho Giourkas Seitaridis Gianluca Zambrotta|Michael Ballack Luís Figo Frank Lampard Maniche Pavel Nedvěd Theodoros Zagorakis Zinedine Zidane|Milan Baroš Angelos Charisteas Henrik Larsson Cristiano Ronaldo Wayne Rooney Jon Dahl Tomasson Ruud van Nistelrooy|
|Austria and Switzerland 2008 (23 player squad)|Gianluigi Buffon Iker Casillas Edwin van der Sar|José Bosingwa Philipp Lahm Carlos Marchena Pepe Carles Puyol Yuri Zhirkov|Hamit Altıntop Luka Modrić Marcos Senna Xavi Konstantin Zyryanov Michael Ballack Cesc Fàbregas Andrés Iniesta Lukas Podolski Wesley Sneijder|Andrey Arshavin Roman Pavlyuchenko Fernando Torres David Villa|
|Poland and Ukraine 2012 (23 player squad)|Gianluigi Buffon Iker Casillas Manuel Neuer|Gerard Piqué Fábio Coentrão Philipp Lahm Pepe Sergio Ramos Jordi Alba|Daniele De Rossi Steven Gerrard Xavi Andrés Iniesta Sami Khedira Sergio Busquets Mesut Özil Andrea Pirlo Xabi Alonso|Mario Balotelli Cesc Fàbregas Cristiano Ronaldo Zlatan Ibrahimović David Silva|
|France 2016 (11 player squad)|Rui Patrício|Joshua Kimmich Jérôme Boateng Pepe Raphaël Guerreiro|Toni Kroos Joe Allen Antoine Griezmann Aaron Ramsey Dimitri Payet|Cristiano Ronaldo|
|Europe 2020 (11 player squad)|Gianluigi Donnarumma|Kyle Walker Leonardo Bonucci Harry Maguire Leonardo Spinazzola|Pierre-Emile Højbjerg Jorginho Pedri|Federico Chiesa Romelu Lukaku Raheem Sterling|
|Germany 2024 (11 player squad)|Mike Maignan|Kyle Walker William Saliba Manuel Akanji Marc Cucurella|Rodri Dani Olmo Fabián Ruiz|Lamine Yamal Jamal Musiala Nico Williams|

### Players with multiple awards

Players in **bold** are still active.

|Total||Player||Years|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Laurent Blanc|1992, 1996, 2000||||
|Paolo Maldini|1988, 1996, 2000||||
|Pepe|2008, 2012, 2016||||
|**Cristiano Ronaldo**|2004, 2012, 2016||||
|Valentin Ivanov|1960, 1964||||
|Lev Yashin|1960, 1964||||
|Franz Beckenbauer|1968, 1976||||
|Dino Zoff|1968, 1976||||
|Dragan Džajić|1968, 1976||||
|Karlheinz Förster|1980, 1984||||
|Andreas Brehme|1984, 1992||||
|Marco van Basten|1988, 1992||||
|Ruud Gullit|1988, 1992||||
|Marcel Desailly|1996, 2000||||
|Rui Costa|1996, 2000||||
|Zinedine Zidane|2000, 2004||||
|Luís Figo|2000, 2004||||
|Michael Ballack|2004, 2008||||
|Philipp Lahm|2008, 2012||||
|Gianluigi Buffon|2008, 2012||||
|Iker Casillas|2008, 2012||||
|Cesc Fàbregas|2008, 2012||||
|Andrés Iniesta|2008, 2012||||
|Xavi|2008, 2012||||
|align="left"|** Kyle Walker**|2020, 2024|||

### Awards by country (1960–2024)

|Rank||Team||||||||||Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|3|14|16|7|**40**|||||||
|2|align=left|2|8|16|8|**34**|||||||
|3|align=left|6|12|8|5|**31**|||||||
|4|align=left|2|8|9|2|**21**|||||||
|5|align=left|1|8|6|4|**19**|||||||
|6|align=left|2|4|5|5|**16**|||||||
|7|align=left|1|6|4|4|**15**|||||||
|8|align=left|2|4|5|3|**14**|||||||
|9|align=left|3|3|3|2|**11**|||||||
|10|align=left|0|2|5|1|**8**|||||||
|11|align=left|1|1|3|1|**6**|||||||
|12|align=left|1|2|1|1|**5**|||||||
|13|align=left|0|1|1|2|**4**|||||||
|14|align=left|0|0|1|2|**3**|||||||
|align=left|0|1|0|2|||||||||
|align=left|0|1|0|2|||||||||
|17|align=left|0|0|1|1|**2**|||||||
|align=left|0|0|2|0|||||||||
|19|align=left|0|0|0|1|**1**|||||||
|align=left|0|0|0|1|||||||||
|align=left|0|1|0|0|||||||||
|align=left|0|0|1|0|||||||||

## All-time Euro XI

In June 2016, right before UEFA Euro 2016 in France, UEFA published an All-time Euro XI. The team was chosen based on votes on EURO2016.com and Twitter. To make the team, players had to meet at least two of the following four criteria:
- Appeared in at least a semi-final
- Featured in a Team of the Tournament
- Finished a EURO tournament as top scorer
- Produced an iconic EURO moment

- Goalkeeper
- Gianluigi Buffon

- Defenders
- Paolo Maldini
- Franz Beckenbauer
- Carles Puyol
- Philipp Lahm

- Midfielders
- Andrés Iniesta
- Andrea Pirlo
- Zinedine Zidane

- Forwards
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Thierry Henry
- Marco van Basten