From the Euro Cup of France in 1960 and that of England in 2020, different scorers in each of the 16 editions that were disputed. On several occasions there was more than one top scorer.
The first edition, which had the Soviet Union as champion, only four teams participated so each one played two, semi-finals and final. François Heutte (France), Viktor Ponedelnik (USSR), Valentin Ivanov (USSR), Dražan Jerković (Yugoslavia) and Milan Galić (Yugoslavia) were the top scorerswith two goals each.
In the 1964 edition, the four-team format was repeated and there were also several scorers, with two goals: Jesus Maria Pereda (Spain), Ferenc Bene (Hungary) and Deszö Novák (Hungary).
Only in the 1968 Euro there was only one name in the position of absolute scorer. In that edition the throne was left for the Yugoslav Dragan Dzajićalso with two.
Both the 1972 and 1976 and 1980 editions remained in the hands of West Germany. In the first, the scorer was Gerd Müller with four goals, and in the second the top scorer was Dieter Müllerwith the same number of conversions. Klaus Allofswith three goals, dominated the third in a row for the Germans.
The German streak was destroyed by the French Michel Platini when in 1984 he established himself as the player who converted the most in the same Euro Cup. That time he scored nine goals in just five games, where in two of them he scored a hat-trick.
Who was the scorer in each Euro Cup?
1988: Marco van Basten (Netherlands) – 5 goals
1992: Henrik Larsen (Denmark) and Karl-Heinz Riedle (Germany), Dennis Bergkamp (Netherlands) and Tomas brolin (Sweden) – 3 goals
1996: Alan Shearer (England) – 5 goals
2000: Patrick Kluivert (Netherlands) and Savo Milosević (Yugoslavia) – 5 goals
2004: Milan Baroš (Czech Republic) – 5 goals
2008: David town (Spain) – 4 goals
2012: Fernando towers (Spain), Alan Dzagoev (Russia), Mario Gomez (Germany), Mario Mandžukic (Croatia), Mario Balotelli (Italy) and Christian Ronaldo (Portugal) – 3 goals
2016: Antoine Griezmann (France) – 6 goals
2020: Christian Ronaldo (Portugal) and Patrik Schick (Czech Republic) – 5 goals.
