List of top scorers in the men's European football championships

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The list of scorers of the European Football Championships Men covers all scorers of the finals tournaments of 1960 and 1964 even as European Cup discharged of Nations competition. Only the goals scored are taken into account here, regardless of whether UEFA uses the templates or game minutes to award the “Golden Shoe” for the same number of goals. In addition, the top scorers of the respective overall competition, consisting of qualification and final round, are listed.

So far, no player has managed to win the title of top scorer twice. The record scorer in the finals is Frenchman Michel Platini , who scored nine goals in his own country in 1984 . The record scorer at the European Championships is the Croatian Davor Šuker , who scored fifteen goals in the competition from 1994 to 1996 .

Top scorer

year Finals Gates qualification Gates Overall competition Gates
1960 YugoslavYugoslav Milan Galić François Today Valentin Iwanow Dražan Jerković Wiktor Ponedelnik
FrenchmanFrenchman 
SovietSoviet 
YugoslavYugoslav 
SovietSoviet 
2 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Titus Buberník Just Fontaine
FranceFrance 
5 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Titus Buberník Just Fontaine Jean Vincent
FranceFrance 
FranceFrance 
5
1964 HungarianHungarian Ferenc Bene Dezső Novák Jesús María Pereda
HungarianHungarian 
SpaniardsSpaniards 
2 DenmarkDenmark Ole Madsen 11 DenmarkDenmark Ole Madsen 11
1968 YugoslavYugoslav Dragan Džajic 2 ItalyItaly Luigi Riva 7th
1972 GermanGerman Gerd Müller 4th GermanGerman Gerd Müller 11
1976 GermanGerman Dieter Müller 4th IrishmanIrishman Don Givens 8th IrishmanIrishman Don Givens 8th
1980 GermanGerman Klaus Allofs 3 English peopleEnglish people Kevin Keegan 7th English peopleEnglish people Kevin Keegan 7th
1984 FrenchmanFrenchman Michel Platini 9 GermanyGermany Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 7th FrenchmanFrenchman Michel Platini 9
1988 DutchDutch Marco van Basten 5 BelgianBelgian Nico Claesen 7th ItalianItalian Alessandro Altobelli Nico Claesen Marco van Basten
BelgianBelgian 
DutchDutch 
7th
1992 DutchDutch Dennis Bergkamp Tomas Brolin Henrik Larsen Karl-Heinz Riedle
SwedeSwede 
DaneDane 
GermanGerman 
3 Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Darko Pančev 10 FrenchmanFrenchman Jean-Pierre Papin 11
1996 English peopleEnglish people Alan Shearer 5 CroatianCroatian Before that, Šuker 15th CroatianCroatian Before that, Šuker 15th
2000 DutchDutch Patrick Kluivert Savo Milošević
YugoslavYugoslav 
5 SpaniardsSpaniards Raúl 11 SpaniardsSpaniards Raúl Zlatko Zahovič
SloveneSlovene 
12
2004 CzechCzech Milan Baroš 5 SloveneSlovene Ermin Siljak 9 SloveneSlovene Ermin Šiljak Ruud van Nistelrooy
DutchDutch 
9
2008 SpaniardsSpaniards David Villa 4th Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland David Healy 13 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland David Healy 13
2012 SpainSpain Fernando Torres 1 Mario Balotelli Alan Dsagojew Mario Gómez Mario Mandžukić Cristiano Ronaldo
ItalyItaly 
RussiaRussia 
GermanyGermany 
CroatiaCroatia 
PortugalPortugal 
3 NetherlandsNetherlands Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 12 NetherlandsNetherlands Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 12
2016 FranceFrance Antoine Griezmann 6th PolandPoland Robert Lewandowski 13 PolandPoland Robert Lewandowski 14th
Each also European champion record
1 Torres was top scorer with the same number of assists as Gómez due to the shorter playing time.

Ranking list (finals)

by country
rank country title
1 GermanyGermany Germany 4th
Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia/ YugoslaviaYugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia  4th
3 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 3
Spain 1945Spain/ SpainSpainSpain  3
FranceFrance France 3
6th Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 2
Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 2
8th DenmarkDenmark Denmark 1
EnglandEngland England 1
SwedenSweden Sweden 1
Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 1

See also

Individual evidence

  1. dpa : Torres before Gomez top scorer: minutes decide. (No longer available online.) In: t-online.de. T-Online , July 2, 2012, archived from the original on June 30, 2013 ; Retrieved August 29, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.t-online.de