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UEFA European Championship awards

UEFA trophies and awards

At the end of each UEFA European Championship tournament, several awards are attributed to the players and teams which have distinguished from the rest, in different aspects of the game.

Awards

There are currently five post-tournament awards, and one given during the tournament:^[1]

the Player of the Tournament for best player, first awarded in 1996;
the Top Scorer Award (currently commercially termed Alipay Top Scorer Award) for most prolific goal scorer;^{[lower-alpha 1]}
the Young Player of the Tournament (currently commercially termed as SOCAR Young Player of the Tournament) for best under 21 years of age at the start of the calendar year, first awarded in 2016;
the Man of the Match Award for outstanding performance during each game of the tournament, first awarded in 1996;
the Team of the Tournament for best combined team of players at the tournament.

In 2021, Alipay also rolled out the digital trophy in gold, silver and bronze.

Player of the Tournament

The Player of the Tournament award is presented to the best player at each edition of the UEFA European Championship since 1996.

UEFA published on its website the Player of the Tournament in 1984, 1988 and 1992. The winners were Michel Platini, Marco van Basten and Peter Schmeichel, respectively. However, these winners are unofficial.

Due to Schmeichel's award in 1992 being unofficial, Gianluigi Donnarumma was the first goalkeeper to officially win the award, at UEFA Euro 2020.

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Edition	Player	Ref.
1996 England	Matthias Sammer	^[2]
2000 Belgium/Netherlands	Zinedine Zidane	^[3]
2004 Portugal	Theodoros Zagorakis	^[4]
2008 Austria/Switzerland	Xavi	^[5]
2012 Poland/Ukraine	Andrés Iniesta	^[6]
2016 France	Antoine Griezmann	^[7]
2020 Europe^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Gianluigi Donnarumma	^[8]

11 host countries: Azerbaijan, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Scotland and Spain.

Top goalscorer

If there is more than one player with the same number of goals, since 2008 the tie-breaker goes to the player who has contributed the most assists. If there is still more than one player, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has played the least amount of time. Between the years 1960 and 2016, the Golden Boot award went to the top goalscorer of each edition of the UEFA European Championship. At Euro 2020, there was a new physical and digital trophy presented to the tournament's top scorer. It was commissioned by Alipay, the Chinese company sponsoring the award. "Sculpted in the shape of the Chinese character '支' (pronounced zhi, and meaning 'payment' as well as 'support'), the barefooted player on the trophy reflects the egalitarian footballing ideal that success on the pitch comes regardless of background or status," according to UEFA.^[9]

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Edition	Golden Boot		Silver Boot		Bronze Boot
Edition	Player(s)	Goals	Player	Goals	Player	Goals
1960 France	Milan Galić François Heutte Valentin Ivanov Dražan Jerković Viktor Ponedelnik	2 goals	—
1964 Spain	Ferenc Bene Dezső Novák Chus Pereda	2 goals
1968 Italy	Dragan Džajić	2 goals
1972 Belgium	Gerd Müller	4 goals
1976 Yugoslavia	Dieter Müller	4 goals
1980 Italy	Klaus Allofs	3 goals
1984 France	Michel Platini	9 goals
1988 West Germany	Marco van Basten	5 goals
1992 Sweden	Dennis Bergkamp Tomas Brolin Henrik Larsen Karl-Heinz Riedle	3 goals
1996 England	Alan Shearer	5 goals
2000 Belgium/Netherlands	Patrick Kluivert Savo Milošević	5 goals
2004 Portugal	Milan Baroš	5 goals
2008 Austria/Switzerland	David Villa	4 goals
2012 Poland/Ukraine^[10]	Fernando Torres	3 goals, 1 assist (189 minutes)	Mario Gómez	3 goals, 1 assist (282 minutes)	Alan Dzagoev	3 goals, 0 assist (253 minutes)
2016 France^[11]	Antoine Griezmann	6 goals, 2 assists (555 minutes)	Cristiano Ronaldo	3 goals, 3 assists (625 minutes)	Olivier Giroud	3 goals, 2 assists (456 minutes)
2020 Europe^[12]	Cristiano Ronaldo	5 goals, 1 assist (360 minutes)	Patrik Schick	5 goals, 0 assists (404 minutes)	Karim Benzema	4 goals, 0 assists (349 minutes)

Young Player of the Tournament

The Young Player of the Tournament award is presented to the best player in the tournament who is at most 22 years old. For the UEFA Euro 2016, this meant that the player had to have been born on or after 1 January 1994. The award was first given out in 2016.

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Edition	Player	Age
2016 France	Renato Sanches^[13]	18
2020 Europe	Pedri^[14]	18

Man of the Match Award

The Man of the Match award picks the outstanding player in every game of the tournament since 1996.^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]

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Most Man of the Match awards won by tournament
Edition	Player(s)	Awards
1996 England	Karel Poborský	3
2000 Belgium / Netherlands	Thierry Henry	3
2004 Portugal	Michael Ballack Milan Baroš Wayne Rooney Ruud van Nistelrooy Theodoros Zagorakis Zinedine Zidane	2
2008 Austria / Switzerland	Andrey Arshavin Wesley Sneijder David Villa	2
2012 Poland / Ukraine	Andrés Iniesta Andrea Pirlo	3
2016 France	Cristiano Ronaldo Antoine Griezmann Eden Hazard Andrés Iniesta Dimitri Payet Renato Sanches Granit Xhaka	2
2020 Europe	Sergio Busquets Federico Chiesa Denzel Dumfries Harry Kane Romelu Lukaku Leonardo Spinazzola	2

Total awards
As of 28 June 2021

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Players with at least three Euro Man of the Match awards
Rank	Player	Country	Awards	Euros with awards
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	6	2008, 2012, 2016, 2020
1	Andrés Iniesta	Spain	6	2008, 2012, 2016
3	Andrea Pirlo	Italy	4	2008, 2012
3	Zinedine Zidane	France	4	2000, 2004
5	Michael Ballack	Germany	3	2004, 2008
	Luís Figo	Portugal		2000, 2004
	Thierry Henry	France		2000
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden		2004, 2008, 2012
	Luka Modrić	Croatia		2008, 2016, 2020
	Mesut Özil	Germany		2012, 2016
	Pepe	Portugal		2008, 2012, 2016
	Karel Poborský	Czech Republic		1996
	Granit Xhaka	Switzerland		2016, 2020

Team of the Tournament

Editions

The Team of the Tournament is a team of the best performers at each respective UEFA European Championship edition, as chosen by the UEFA Technical Study Group since 1996.^[19] UEFA also retroactively named teams of the best 11 players from the 1960 to 1992 tournaments. The number of players in these squads has changed, from 18 players in 1996, 22 players in 2000, and 23 players from 2004 until 2012. Since 2016, a team of 11 players has been named.^[20]

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Edition	Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
France 1960 (11 player squad)^[21]	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)^[22]	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)^[23]	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)^[24]	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)^[25]	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)^[26]	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)^[27]	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)^[28]	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)^[29]	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)^[19]	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)^[19]	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)^[30]	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)^[31]	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)^[32]	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)^[33]	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)^[34]	Gianluigi Donnarumma	Kyle Walker Leonardo Bonucci Harry Maguire Leonardo Spinazzola	Pierre-Emile Højbjerg Jorginho Pedri	Federico Chiesa Romelu Lukaku Raheem Sterling

Statistics

As of 2020

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#	Nation	G	D	M	F	Total
1	Germany	3	14	16	6	39
2	Italy	6	12	8	5	31
3	Spain	2	7	13	6	28
4	France	1	7	9	2	19
5	Portugal	1	8	6	4	19
6	Netherlands	2	4	5	5	16
7	Czech Republic	2	4	5	3	14
8	England	1	5	4	4	14
9	Soviet Union	3	3	3	2	11
10	Yugoslavia	0	2	5	1	8
11	Denmark	1	1	3	1	6
12	Greece	1	2	1	1	5
13	Russia	0	1	1	2	4
14	Belgium	0	0	1	2	3
15	Hungary	0	1	0	2	3
16	Sweden	0	1	0	2	3
17	Croatia	0	0	1	1	2
18	Wales	0	0	2	0	2
19	Bulgaria	0	0	0	1	1
20	Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	0	1	1
21	Turkey	0	0	1	0	1
Total	21 Nation	23	72	84	51	230

All-time Euro XI

In June 2016, ahead of UEFA Euro 2016 in France, UEFA published an All-time Euro XI; the winning team was chosen based on votes cast on EURO2016.com and Twitter. The application featured the 11 players who have made the greatest impact at EURO final tournaments. Nominees had to meet at least two of the following four criteria:^[35]

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

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