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{{Infobox international football competition
| tourney_name = UEFA European Football Championship
| year = 1972
| other_titles = Europees kampioenschap voetbal België 1972 {{nobold|{{in lang|nl}}}}<br />Championnat d'Europe de football Belgique 1972 {{nobold|{{in lang|fr}}}}<br />Fußball-Europameisterschaft Belgien 1972 {{nobold|{{in lang|de}}}}
| image = UEFA Euro 1972 logo.svg
| size = 200px
| caption = 
| country = Belgium
| dates = 14–18 June
| num_teams = 4
| venues = 4
| cities = 3
| champion = FRG
| count = 1
| second = URS
| third = BEL
| fourth = HUN
| matches = 4
| goals = 10
| attendance = 121880
| top_scorer = {{fbicon|FRG}} [[Gerd Müller]] {{nowrap|(4 goals)}}
| prevseason = [[UEFA Euro 1968|1968]]
| nextseason = [[UEFA Euro 1976|1976]]
}}
The '''1972 UEFA European Football Championship''' final tournament was held in Belgium. This was the fourth [[UEFA European Championship]], held every four years and endorsed by [[UEFA]]. The final tournament took place between 14 and 18 June 1972.

Only four countries played in the final tournament, with the tournament consisting of the semi-finals, a [[third place play-off]], and the final.

The hosts were only announced after the qualifying round, which meant all teams had to participate in the qualification process for the final stage.<ref>{{cite news |first=Mike |last=Henson |title=Euro 1972: West Germany sweep the continent on finals debut |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/17981959 |publisher=BBC Sport |date=12 May 2012 |access-date=17 June 2012 }}</ref> Belgium was chosen among three candidates; the other bids came from England and Italy,<ref>{{cite news |title=Sportflitsen | newspaper=De Tĳd : Dagblad voor Nederland |url=http://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?query=europees+kampioenschap+voetbal+Belgi%C3%AB&coll=ddd&page=1&facets%5Bperiode%5D%5B%5D=2%7C20e_eeuw%7C1970-1979%7C1972%7C&identifier=ddd%3A011236337%3Ampeg21%3Aa0119&resultsidentifier=ddd%3A011236337%3Ampeg21%3Aa0119 |publisher=De Tijd |language=nl |date=14 March 1972 |access-date=19 September 2015|trans-title=Sports flashes|via=Delpher}}</ref> whose teams did not reach the semi-finals.

[[Germany national football team|West Germany]] won the tournament, beating the [[Soviet Union national football team|Soviet Union]] 3–0 in the final, with goals coming from [[Gerd Müller]] (twice) and [[Herbert Wimmer]] at the [[Heysel Stadium]] in [[Brussels]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/history/news/0253-0d7b3004cb83-b521fb90279e-1000--muller-strikes-twice-as-west-germany-beat-ussr-in-1972-euro-/ |title=Müller strikes twice as West Germany beat USSR in 1972 EURO final|work=[[UEFA]] |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=3 October 2003 |access-date=17 October 2012}}</ref>

==Qualification==
{{main|UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying}}

The qualifying round was played throughout 1970 and 1971 (group phase), and 1972 (quarter-finals). There were eight qualifying groups of four teams each, with matches played on a home-and-away basis. The group winners qualified for the quarter-finals, played in two legs, home and away. The winners of the quarter-finals went through to the final tournament.

===Qualified teams===
{{:UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying}}

==Venues==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Brussels]]
! [[Liège]]
|-
| [[King Baudouin Stadium|Heysel Stadium]]
| [[Constant Vanden Stock Stadium|Stade Émile Versé]]
| [[Stade Maurice Dufrasne]]
|-
| Capacity: '''75,000'''
| Capacity: '''30,000'''
| Capacity: '''35,000'''
|-
| [[File:Stade Roi Baudouin.JPG|200px]]
| [[File:3564constantVandenStockStadium.jpg|200px]]
| [[File:Standard liege kaerjeng02.jpg|200px]]
|-
! rowspan="4" colspan="2" | {{Location map+|Belgium|float=center|width=410|caption=|places=
{{Location map~|Belgium|lat=50.864951|long=4.316210|label=[[Brussels]]|position=top}}
{{Location map~|Belgium|lat=50.609908|long=5.543344|label=[[Liège]]|position=bottom}}
{{Location map~|Belgium|lat=51.232406|long=4.472086|label=[[Antwerp]]|position=right}}}}
! [[Antwerp]]
|-
| [[Bosuilstadion]]
|-
| Capacity: '''60,000'''
|-
| [[File:20110720 bosuil.jpg|200px]]
|}

==Squads==
{{main|UEFA Euro 1972 squads}}

==Match officials==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Country
! Referee
|-
|{{flagicon|SWE}} [[Swedish Football Association|Sweden]]
|[[Johan Einar Boström]]
|-
|{{flagicon|GDR}} [[Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR|East&nbsp;Germany]]
|[[Rudi Glöckner]]
|-
|{{flagicon|AUT}} [[Austrian Football Association|Austria]]
|[[Ferdinand Marschall]]
|-
|{{flagicon|SCO}} [[Scottish Football Association|Scotland]]
|[[William Mullan]]
|}

==Final tournament==
{{main|UEFA Euro 1972 final tournament}}
[[File:Euro 1972.png|thumb|300px|Finalists and their results]]

At the final tournament, [[Overtime (sports)#Association football (soccer)|extra time]] and a [[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|penalty shoot-out]] were used to decide the winner if necessary.

''All times are local, [[Central European Time|CET]] ([[UTC+01:00|UTC+1]])''

===Bracket===
{{#lst:UEFA Euro 1972 final tournament|bracket}}

===Semi-finals===
{{#lst:UEFA Euro 1972 final tournament|sf1}}
----
{{#lst:UEFA Euro 1972 final tournament|sf2}}

===Third-place play-off===
{{#lst:UEFA Euro 1972 final tournament|tp}}

===Final===
{{main|UEFA Euro 1972 Final}}
{{#lst:UEFA Euro 1972 Final|final}}

==Statistics==

===Goalscorers===
{{Goalscorers
|goals=10 |matches=4

|4 goals=
*{{fbicon|FRG}} [[Gerd Müller]]

|1 goal=
*{{fbicon|BEL}} [[Raoul Lambert]]
*{{fbicon|BEL}} [[Odilon Polleunis]]
*{{fbicon|BEL}} [[Paul Van Himst]]
*{{fbicon|HUN}} [[Lajos Kű]]
*{{fbicon|URS}} [[Anatoliy Konkov]]
*{{fbicon|FRG}} [[Herbert Wimmer]]
}}

===Awards===
;UEFA Team of the Tournament<ref>{{cite news |title=1972 team of the tournament |url=https://www.uefa.com/euro2024/news/0253-0d7bd0da58f2-d557c23f55fa-1000--euro-1972-team-of-the-tournament/ |work=Union of European Football Associations |access-date=23 January 2015}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="width:25%;" | Goalkeeper
! style="width:25%;" | Defenders
! style="width:25%;" | Midfielders
! style="width:25%;" | Forwards
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| {{fbicon|URS}} [[Yevhen Rudakov]]
| {{fbicon|URS}} [[Revaz Dzodzuashvili]]<br />{{fbicon|URS}} [[Murtaz Khurtsilava]]<br />{{fbicon|FRG}} [[Franz Beckenbauer]]<br />{{fbicon|FRG}} [[Paul Breitner]]
| {{fbicon|FRG}} [[Uli Hoeneß]]<br />{{fbicon|FRG}} [[Günter Netzer]]<br />{{fbicon|FRG}} [[Herbert Wimmer]]
| {{fbicon|BEL}} [[Raoul Lambert]]<br />{{fbicon|FRG}} [[Jupp Heynckes]]<br />{{fbicon|FRG}} [[Gerd Müller]]
|}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111116162418/http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/season=1972/index.html UEFA Euro 1972] at UEFA.com

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