UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll
The UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll is the popular name for an online poll conducted in 2004 by UEFA as part of their Golden Jubilee celebrations, celebrating the best European footballers from the fifty previous years. The poll, available on UEFA's website, asked respondents to pick their ten favorite players from each of the five previous decades, from a shortlist of 250 players. Over 150,000 people responded, producing over seven million votes. Zinedine Zidane topped the poll narrowly from Franz Beckenbauer. Italian players featured most frequently with ten nominations, edging out German players with eight nominations.
Full results
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Player |
Nation |
Votes |
1 | Zinedine Zidane | France | 123,582 |
2 | Franz Beckenbauer | Germany | 122,569 |
3 | Johan Cruyff | Netherlands | 119,332 |
4 | Marco van Basten | Netherlands | 117,987 |
5 | Dino Zoff | Italy | 114,529 |
6 | Alfredo Di Stéfano | Argentina Spain | 107,435 |
7 | Eusébio | Portugal Mozambique | 103,937 |
8 | Lev Yashin | Soviet Union | 101,862 |
9 | Michel Platini | France | 99,380 |
10 | Paolo Maldini | Italy | 95,497 |
11 | Ferenc Puskás | Hungary Spain | 94,361 |
12 | Paolo Rossi | Italy | 91,194 |
13 | Ruud Gullit | Netherlands | 91,001 |
14 | Bobby Charlton | England | 89,921 |
15 | Lothar Matthäus | West Germany Germany | 86,798 |
16 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | West Germany | 86,649 |
17 | Franco Baresi | Italy | 83,800 |
18 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | 82,668 |
19 | George Best | Northern Ireland | 79,036 |
20 | Kevin Keegan | England | 78,840 |
21 | Frank Rijkaard | Netherlands | 71,333 |
22 | David Beckham | England | 71,299 |
23 | Bobby Moore | England | 70,884 |
24 | Roberto Baggio | Italy | 68,239 |
25 | Michael Laudrup | Denmark | 67,484 |
26 | Ronald Koeman | Netherlands | 66,661 |
27 | Peter Schmeichel | Denmark | 66,463 |
28 | Gheorghe Hagi | Romania | 62,383 |
29 | Sepp Maier | West Germany | 62,375 |
30 | Oliver Kahn | Germany | 58,151 |
31 | Luís Figo | Portugal | 58,078 |
32 | Raúl | Spain | 56,880 |
33 | Berti Vogts | West Germany | 55,398 |
34 | Johan Neeskens | Netherlands | 54,796 |
35 | Gianni Rivera | Italy | 53,874 |
36 | José Antonio Camacho | Spain | 53,873 |
37 | Marco Tardelli | Italy | 53,732 |
38 | Just Fontaine | France | 53,612 |
39 | Peter Shilton | England | 50,841 |
40 | Bernd Schuster | West Germany | 50,247 |
41 | Raymond Kopa | France | 49,504 |
42 | Eric Cantona | France | 48,436 |
43 | Stanley Matthews | England | 47,915 |
44 | Ruud van Nistelrooy | Netherlands | 47,398 |
45 | Valentin Kozmich Ivanov | Soviet Union | 46,022 |
46 | Gary Lineker | England | 44,787 |
47 | Alessandro Nesta | Italy | 44,667 |
48 | José Santamaría | Uruguay Spain | 43,690 |
49 | Alessandro Del Piero | Italy | 43,227 |
50 | Alessandro Costacurta | Italy | 42,511 |
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