To mark UEFA's Golden Jubilee, each of the 52 member associations were invited to nominate its most outstanding player of the past 50 years.

The 52 Golden Players selected, listed below, will find permanent recognition at the House of European Football in Nyon. A specially created display within UEFA's headquarters will feature all 52 stars, thus ensuring a permanent presence for each country's top player.

There were surprises from France and Germany where the players one might expect to win - Michel Platini and Franz Beckenbauer - failed to make it into the list. Instead Fritz Walter, Germany's 1954 World Cup winning captain and Just Fontaine, the top scorer at the 1958 World Cup, go into the UEFA Hall of Fame.

Other famous names to be recognised are Johan Cruyff, the Dutch magician of the 1970s, the Hungarian 'Galloping Major' Ferenc Puskas and Argentianian-born Spanish great Alfredo di Stefano.

Denis Law, Pat Jennings and John Charles were the nominees from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

UEFA's 52 'Golden Players'



ALBANIA

PANO PANAJOT

  

ITALY

DINO ZOFF

ANDORRA

KOLDO

  

KAZAKHSTAN

SERGEY KVOCHKIN

ARMENIA

KHOREN HOVHANNISYAN

  

LATVIA

ALEKSANDRS STARKOVS

AUSTRIA

HERBERT PROHASKA

  

LIECHTENSTEIN

RAINER HASLER

AZERBAIJAN

ANATOLI BANISHEVSKI

  

LITHUANIA

ARMINAS NARBEKOVAS

BELARUS

SERGEI ALEINIKOV

  

LUXEMBOURG

LOUIS PILOT

BELGIUM

PAUL VAN HIMST

  

MACEDONIA

DARKO PANCHEV

BOSNIA & HERZ.

SAFET SUSIC

  

MALTA

CARMEL BUSUTTIL

BULGARIA

HRISTO STOICHKOV

  

MOLDOVA

PAVEL CEBANU

CROATIA

DAVOR SUKER

  

NETHERLANDS

JOHAN CRUYFF

CYPRUS

SOTIRIS KALAFAS

  

NORWAY

RUNE BRATSETH

CZECH REP.

JOSEF MASOPUST

  

POLAND

WLODZIMIERZ LUBANSKI

DENMARK

MICHAEL LAUDRUP

  

PORTUGAL

EUSEBIO

ENGLAND

BOBBY MOORE

  

ROMANIA

GHEORGHE HAGI

ESTONIA

MART POOM

  

RUSSIA

LEV YASHIN

FAROES

ABRAHAM LOKIN

  

SAN MARINO

MASSIMO BONINI

FINLAND

JARI LITMANEN

  

SCOTLAND

DENIS LAW

FRANCE

JUST FONTAINE

  

SERBIA & MONT.

DRAGAN DZAJIC

GEORGIA

MURTAZ KHURTSILAVA

  

SLOVAKIA

JAN POPLUHAR

GERMANY

FRITZ WALTER

  

SLOVENIA

BRANE OBLAK

GREECE

VASSILIS HATZIPANAGIS

  

SPAIN

ALFREDO DI STEFANO

HUNGARY

FERENC PUSKAS

  

SWEDEN

HENRIK LARSSON

ICELAND

ASGEIR SIGURVINSSON

  

SWITZERLAND

STEPHANE CHAPUISAT

N. IRELAND

PAT JENNINGS

  

TURKEY

HAKAN SUKUR

IRELAND REP.

JOHNNY GILES

  

UKRAINE

OLEG BLOKHIN

ISRAEL

MORDECHAI SHPIGLER

  

WALES

JOHN CHARLES