The first ten years of European Cup (1955-65)

 

Top rated players Euro 1968

3,75 Albert Shesternev (URS)

3,50 Bobby Moore (Eng)

3,25 Anatoliy Byshovets, Gennadiy Evryuzhikhin (URS) 

3,17 Dino Zoff (Ita)

3,00 Giacinto Facchetti (Ita), Dobrivoje Trivić, Dragan Džajić (Yug), Bobby Charlton (Eng)

2,83 Angelo Domenghini (Ita)

Yugoslavia ratings in the 1962 World Cup

 

Ratings: France Football.

7,00 Dragoslav Šekularac
6,83 Vladimir Durković
6,70 Petar Radaković
6,67 Milutin Šoškić
6,50 Vlatko Marković, Fahrudin Jusufi, Vladica Popović, Milan Galić
6,33 Dražan Jerković
6,10 Josip Skoblar
6,00 Vladica Kovačević
5,00 Vojislav Melić 

Brazil ratings in the 1962 World Cup

 

6,83 Mário Zagallo
6,67 Gilmar, Nílton Santos, Garrincha
6,33 Djalma Santos, Mauro Ramos, Zito
6,25 Amarildo
6,17 Zózimo
6,00 Vavá, Pelé
5,83 Didi

Le pagelle della Fiorentina 1959/60

7,03 Kurt Hamrin

6,64 Sergio Castelletti

6,62 Alberto Orzan

6,60 Giuliano Sarti

6,48 Armando Segato

6,47 Giuseppe Chiappella

6,44 Francisco Lojacono

6,28 Saul Malatrasi

6,25 Guido Gratton

6,20 Miguel Montuori

5,97 Claudio Rimbaldo

5,91 Enzo Robotti

5,76 Gianfranco Petris

5,67 Claudio Azzali

West Germany ratings in the 1962 World Cup

 

6,88 Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
6,75 Herbert Erhardt
6,50 Hans Nowak
6,38 Willi Schulz, Willi Giesemann  
6,12 Wolfgang Fahrian
6,00 Horst Szymaniak, Uwe Seeler
5,50 Helmut Haller, Albert Brülls
5,25 Hans Schäfer

Top rated Serie A players 1959/60

7,07 John Charles (Juventus)

7,05 Nils Liedholm (Milan)

7,03 Kurt Hamrin (Fiorentina), Omar Enrique Sívori (Juventus)

6,78 Giacomo Losi (Roma)

6,76 Ottavio Bugatti (Napoli)

6,74 Roberto Anzolin (Palermo)

6,71 Gianni Seghedoni (Bari)

6,66 Umberto Colombo (Juventus), Bengt Lindskog (Inter)

6,63 Mirko Pavinato (Bologna), Egidio Guarnacci (Roma)

Le pagelle del Cagliari 1969/70

Voti: Corriere dello Sport.

7,07 Luigi Riva

6,91 Enrico Albertosi

6,69 Pierluigi Cera

6,60 Comunardo Niccolai

6,57 Nené

6,56 Giuseppe Tomasini, Angelo Domenghini

6,51 Sergio Gori

6,39 Mario Martiradonna

6,33 Cesare Poli

6,16 Giulio Zignoli

6,15 Ricciotti Greatti

6,12 Mario Brugnera

Soviet Union ratings in the 1962 World Cup

 Ratings: France Football (0-6).

4,25 Valentin Ivanov
3,75 Valery Voronin, Igor Netto,Viktor Ponedelnik
3,67 Givi Chokheli,Igor Chislenko
3,50 Leonid Ostrovskiy
3,25 Lev Yashin, Anatoli Maslyonkin
3,00 Mikhail Meskhi, Aleksei Mamykin
2,50 Viktor Kanevski

Suecia 2-3 Brasil hace 54 años

 

0-1 44' Tostão, 1-1 60' Ove Kindvall, 2-1 66' Kindvall, 2-2 68' Tostão, 2-3 83' Gérson. Espectadores: 46.824 (Ullevi, Göteborg).

Suecia:
Ronney Pettersson (Djurgården)
Jan Karlsson (Ifö Bromölla)
Kurt Axelsson (GAIS)
Nils Johansson (IFK Göteborg)
Rolf Björklund (Malmö FF)
->20' Boris Målberg (Elfsborg)
Jim Nildén (AIK)
Leif Eriksson (Djurgården)
->46' Lennart Wallin (IFK Göteborg)
Roger Magnusson (Åtvidaberg)
Ove Kindvall (Norrköping)
Agne Simonsson capitano (Örgryte)
Ingvar Svahn (Malmö FF)
->46' Tom Turesson (Hammarby)
DT: Orvar Bergmark.

Brasil:
Gilmar I (Santos)
Fidélis (Bangu)
Bellini capitano (São Paulo)
Orlando Peçanha (Santos)
Paulo Henrique (Flamengo)
->Lima (Santos)
Gérson I (Botafogo)
Tostão (Cruzeiro)
Garrincha (Corinthians)
Jairzinho (Botafogo)
Pelé (Santos)
Paraná (São Paulo)
->Edu (Santos)
DT: Vicente Feola.

The 200 Best Footballers of All Time: #189 Wolfgang Overath

 

1. FC Köln

Memory Lane: European topscorers in the 1966 World Cup.

Including Qualifiers.

  16: Eusébio (Portugal)
  6: Helmut Haller (West Germany), Anatoli Banishevski (USSR), Sandro Mazzola (Italy), Georgi Asparukhov (Bulgaria), Mimis Papaioannou (Greece)
  5: Ferenc Bene (Hungary), Paul van Himst (Belgium), Włodzimierz Lubański (Poland), Jobby Crossan (Northern Ireland)
  4: Geoff Hurst (England), Franz Beckenbauer (West Germany), Valeri Porkujan (USSR), František Knebort (Czechoslovakia), Paolo Barison (Italy), Nikola Kotkov (Bulgaria), Milan Galić (Yugoslavia), Roy Vernon (Wales)
  3: Bobby Charlton & Roger Hunt (England), Uwe Seeler (West Germany), José Augusto & José Torres (Portugal), Valentin Ivanov, Eduard Malofeyev & Slava Metreveli (USSR), János Farkas & Kálmán Meszöly (Hungary), Néstor Combín & Philippe Gondet (France), René-Pierre Quentin & Köbi Kuhn (Switzerland), Jesús María Pereda (Spain), Karol Jokl (Czechoslovakia), Ivor Allchurch (Wales), Giorgos Sideris (Greece), Juhani Peltonen (Finland), Louis Pilot (Luxembourg)
  2: Wolfgang Overath, Klaus-Dieter Sieloff & Werner Krämer (West Germany), Agne Simonsson, Torbjörn Jonsson, Lars Granström & Bo Larsson (Sweden), Vladimir Barkaya & Igor Chislenko (USSR), John Greig & Denis Law (Scotland), Ernest Pol & Jerzy Sadek (Poland), Ole Madsen & Ole Fritsen (Denmark), Erik Johansen & Harald Berg (Norway), Peter Ducke & Jürgen Nöldner (East Germany), Bruno Mora (Italy), Máté Fenyvesi (Hungary), Dragan Džajić (Yugoslavia), George Best (Northern Ireland), Van Nee (Holland), Ivan Mráz (Czechoslovakia), Fevzi Zemzem (Turkey), Viorel Mateianu (Romania), Johnny Thio (Belgium)

Matches between the South American giants, 1960-69.

Brazil : 9 5 7 41-31 = 54,76%
Argentina : 9 3 8 38-34 = 52,50%
Uruguay : 3 4 6 9-23 = 38,46%

Scored goals:
1,95 Brazil
1,90 Argentina
0,69 Uruguay

Conceded goals:
1,48 Brazil
1,70 Argentina
1,77 Uruguay

Altogether 27 matches with 88 goals (3,26 per match).

Memory Lane: Cup Winners' Cup 1960-1969.

Total points:
1. West Germany : 107
2. England : 97
3. Scotland : 72
4. Italy : 67
5. Spain : 63
6. Hungary, Czechoslovakia : 52
8. Portugal : 50
9. East Germany, Bulgaria : 35
11. Yugoslavia, France : 34
13. Wales : 32
14. Belgium : 29
15. Switzerland, Holland : 26
17. Soviet Union : 25
18. Poland : 24
19. Romania, Denmark, Turkey : 22
22. Austria : 20
23. Greece : 19
24. Norway : 13
25. Ireland : 9
26. Sweden* : 8
27. Northern Ireland, Malta : 6
29. Cyprus : 5
30. Luxembourg, Finland : 4
32. Albania : 2
33. Iceland : 1

Average points:
1. West Germany : 67,7%
2. England : 67,4%
3. Soviet Union : 65,8%
4. Scotland, Italy : 63,2%
6. Spain : 63,0%
7. Czechoslavia : 57,8%
8. Portugal : 56,8%
9. Hungary : 56,5%
10. Poland : 54,5%
11. East Germany, Bulgaria : 53,0%
13. Holland, Belgium, Sweden* : 50,0%
16. Yugoslavia, France : 47,2%
18. Wales : 47,1%
19. Romania : 45,8%
20. Turkey : 44,0%
21. Greece : 41,3%
22. Denmark : 39,3%
23. Switzerland : 37,1%
24. Austria : 34,5%
25. Norway : 32,5%
26. Ireland : 22,5%
27. Northern Ireland : 16,7%
28. Cyprus : 15,6%
29. Malta : 15,0%
30. Finland : 14,3%
31. Luxembourg : 11,1%
32. Iceland : 5,0%

Combined:
1. West Germany : 2
2. England : 4
3. Scotland : 7
4. Italy : 8
5. Spain : 11
6. Czechoslovakia : 13
7. Hungary : 15
8. Portugal : 16
9. Soviet Union, East Germany, Bulgaria : 20
12. Yugoslavia, France, Belgium : 27
15. Holland, Poland : 28
17. Wales : 31
18. Switzerland, Romania : 38
20. Turkey, Sweden* : 39
22. Denmark : 41
23. Greece : 44
24. Austria : 46
25. Norway : 49
26. Ireland : 51
27. Northern Ireland : 53
28. Malta : 56
29. Cyprus : 57
30. Finland : 60
31. Luxembourg : 61
32. Iceland : 65

*) Swedish teams partecipated only in 1968 and 1969, the Swedish Cup not being held 1954-67.

Memory Lane: the European Cup, 1960-1964.

Total points:
1. Spain : 61
2. Italy : 53
3. Portugal : 52
4. West Germany : 41
5. Holland : 37
6. Scotland : 32
7. Czechoslovakia : 30
8. England : 28
9. Austria : 26
10. Switzerland : 24
11. Belgium : 21
12. Hungary : 20
13. Poland : 19
14. Sweden, Bulgaria : 16
16. France : 15
17: Denmark : 14
18. Turkey : 12
19. Yugoslavia : 11
20. Romania : 10
21. Greece : 7
22. Norway : 5
23. East Germany, Albania, Finland, Luxembourg : 4
27. Northern Ireland : 3
28. Ireland : 2
29. Malta, Cyprus, Iceland : 0

Average points:
1. Italy : 75,7%
2. Portugal : 70,3%
3. Spain : 69,3%
4. West Germany : 66,1%
5. Holland : 63,8%
6. Czechoslovakia : 60,0%
7. Hungary : 58,8%
8. England : 58,3%
9. Scotland : 57,1%
10. Poland : 55,9%
11. Austria : 52,0%
12. Switzerland : 50,0%
13. Belgium : 45,7%
14. Bulgaria, Sweden : 44,4%
16. France, Romania : 41,7%
18. Denmark : 38,9%
19. Turkey : 35,3%
20. Albania : 33,3%
21. Yugoslavia : 32,4%
22. Greece : 29,2%
23. Northern Ireland : 21,4%
24. Finland : 20,0%
25. East Germany : 18,2%
26. Norway : 17,9%
27. Luxembourg : 16,7%
28. Ireland : 10,0%
29. Malta, Cyprus, Iceland : 0,0%

Combined:
1. Italy : 3
2. Spain : 4
3. Portugal : 5
4. West Germany : 8
5. Holland : 10
6. Czechoslovakia : 13
7. Scotland : 15
8. England : 16
9. Hungary : 19
10. Austria : 20
11. Switzerland : 22
12. Poland : 23
13. Belgium : 24
14. Sweden, Bulgaria : 28
16. France : 32
17. Denmark : 35
18. Turkey, Romania : 37
20. Yugoslavia : 40
21. Greece, Albania : 43
23. Finland : 47
24. Norway, East Germany : 48
26. Luxembourg : 50
27. Northern Ireland : 51
28. Ireland : 56
29. Malta, Cyprus, Iceland : 58

Memory Lane: average points in 1960s qualifiers.

1. Soviet Union : 84,0%
2. West Germany : 79,5%
3. Italy : 79,2%
4. Hungary : 78,6%
5. England : 75,0%
6. Bulgaria : 72,2%
7. Yugoslavia : 64,6%
8. Scotland : 63,6%
9. France, Czechoslovakia : 62,5%
11. Sweden : 60,4%
12. Spain : 58,3%
13. Romania : 55,0%
14. Switzerland : 54,2%
15. Belgium, East Germany, Poland : 50,0%
18. Portugal, Holland : 48,0%
20. Northern Ireland : 47,9%
21. Greece : 45,2%
22. Denmark : 42,0%
23. Austria : 38,2%
24. Wales : 30,0%
25. Norway : 29,5%
26. Ireland : 29,2%
27. Turkey : 22,7%
28. Israel : 18,8%
29. Albania : 16,7%
30. Luxembourg : 14,8%
31. Finland : 13,6%
32. Cyprus : 8,3%

Memory Lane: Clásico goalscorers 1950s & 1960s.

Real Madrid players in bold text.


1950-59
6: César, Di Stéfano
4: Basora, Pahiño, Roque Olsen, Rial
3: Tejada, Evaristo, Molowny, Narro, Arsuaga.

1960-69
9: Di Stéfano, Gento, Puskás
6: Zaldúa
4: Fusté, Amancio
3: Del Sol, Pirri.

Yugoslavia: National team topscorers 1950-91.

1950: Rajko Mitić, 7
1951: Stjepan Bobek, 5
1952: Rajko Mitić & Branko Zebec, 8
1953: Bernard Vukas & Rajko Mitić, 5
1954: Stjepan Bobek & Todor Veselinović, 5
1955: Todor Veselinović & Miloš Milutinović, 5
1956: Todor Veselinović, 7
1957: Miloš Milutinović, 5
1958: Todor Veselinović, 8
1959: Muhamed Mujić, 5
1960: Borivoje Kostić, 18
1961: Milan Galić, 7
1962: Milan Galić, 8
1963: Milan Galić, Slaven Zambata & Josip Skoblar, 2
1964: Slaven Zambata, 9
1965: Milan Galić, 3
1966: Dragan Gugleta & Josip Bakal, 2
1967: Slaven Zambata & Ivan Osim, 3
1968: Vahidin Musemić, 8
1969: Dragan Džajić, 3
1970: Josip Bakal, 3
1971: Dragan Džajić, 3
1972: Dušan Bajević, 15
1973: Dušan Bajević, 4
1974: Josip Katalinski, 4
1975: Brane Oblak & Zvonko Ivezić, 2
1976: Momčilo Vukotić, Danilo Popivoda, Josip Katalinski & Dragan Džajić, 2
1977: Dušan Bajević & Safet Sušić (photo, above), 5
1978: Vahid Halilhodžić, 4
1979: Safet Sušić, 6
1980: Zlatko Vujović & Safet Sušić, 3
1981: Zlatko Vujović, 5
1982: eight players with 1 goal
1983: Safet Sušić, 3
1984: Safet Sušić, Dragan Stojković, Miloš Šestić & Fadil Vokrri, 2
1985: Zlatko Vujović, 3
1986: Zlatko Vujović, 4
1987: Darko Pančev, Dragan Stojković, Fadil Vokrri, Faruk Hadžibegić & Srecko Katanec, 2
1988: Dejan Savićević, 3
1989: Zlatko Vujović, 4
1990: Darko Pančev, 6
1991: Dejan Savićević & Darko Pančev, 6

Topscorer 5 times: Safet Sušić & Zlatko Vujović
4 times: Todor Veselinović & Milan Galić
3 times: Rajko Mitić, Slaven Zambata, Dragan Džajić, Dušan Bajević & Darko Pančev
twice: Stjepan Bobek, Miloš Milutinović, Josip Bakal, Josip Katalinski, Dragan Stojković, Fadil Vokrri & Dejan Savićević.

Brazil: National team top scorers during 54 years.

1958: Pelé, 9
1959: Pelé, 11
1960: Quarentinha, 6
1961: Coutinho, 3
1962: Pelé, 8
1963: Pelé, 7
1964: Rinaldo, Pelé & Gérson, 2
1965: Pelé, 9
1966: Tostão, 6
1967: Paulo Borges, 2
1968: Jairzinho, 9
1969: Tostão, 12
1970: Jairzinho, 11
1971: Tostão & Paulo César Caju, 2
1972: Jairzinho, 3
1973: Paulo César Caju, 5
1974: Rivellino, 5
1975: Danival, Palhinha, Nelinho & Roberto Batata, 3
1976: Zico & Roberto Dinamite, 6
1977: Zico & Roberto Dinamite, 6
1978: Reinaldo, 4
1979: Zico & Sócrates, 5
1980: Ze Sérgio & Zico, 4
1981: Zico, 10
1982: Zico, 8
1983: Careca, 5
1984: Arturzinho, 1*
1985: Casagrande, 4
1986: Careca, 8
1987: Valdo & Romário, 4
1988: Geovanni, 4
1989: Bebeto, 10
1990: Müller & Careca, 3
1991: Neto, 5
1992: Bebeto, 7
1993: Bebeto, 6
1994: Romário, 10
1995: Túlio, 10
1996: Sávio & Ronaldo, 5
1997: Romário, 19
1998: Élber, 6
1999: Rivaldo, 8
2000: Rivaldo, 8
2001: Edílson, 4
2002: Ronaldo, 11
2003: Kaká, 5
2004: Adriano, 9
2005: Adriano, 10
2006: Ronaldo & Kaká, 5
2007: Robinho, 6
2008: Luís Fabiano, 6
2009: Luís Fabiano, 11
2010: Robinho, 6
2011: Neymar, 7
2012: Neymar, 9

6 times topscorer: Pelé & Zico
3 times: Tostão, Jairzinho, Careca, Romário, Bebeto & Ronaldo.

*) in 1984 Brazil played only three matches: 0-2 vs England, 0-0 vs Argentina and 1-0 vs Uruguay.

Italy: National team topscorers during 50 years.

1962: Altafini & Orlando, 4
1963: Sormani & Rivera, 2
1964: Mazzola, 3
1965: Mazzola, 6
1966: Mazzola, 5
1967: Riva -photo-, 6
1968: Prati, Domenghini & Riva, 2
1969: Riva, 8
1970: Riva, 6
1971: Boninsegna, 5
1972: Riva, 4
1973: Riva, 6
1974: four players with 1 goal
1975: P. Pulici, 2
1976: Bettega, 8
1977: Bettega, 6
1978: P. Rossi, 4
1979: P. Rossi, 3
1980: Graziani, 5
1981: Graziani, 3
1982: P. Rossi, 6
1983: Cabrini & P. Rossi, 2
1984: Altobelli, P. Rossi & Cabrini, 3
1985: Altobelli, 3
1986: Altobelli, 9
1987: Vialli, 5
1988: Vialli, 5
1989: R. Baggio, 3
1990: Schillaci, 6
1991: Vialli, 3
1992: R. Baggio, 6
1993: R. Baggio, 5
1994: R. Baggio, 5
1995: Zola, 7
1996: Casiraghi, 5
1997: Del Piero, 4
1998: Vieri, 6
1999: F. Inzaghi, 3
2000: F. Inzaghi, 5
2001: F. Inzaghi, 4
2002: Del Piero & Vieri, 5
2003:  F. Inzaghi, 6
2004: Vieri, 3
2005: Toni, 5
2006: Gilardino & Toni, 4
2007: Toni, 4
2008: Di Natale, 4
2009: Gilardino, 6
2010: Quagliarella, 3
2011: Cassano, 4
2012: Balotelli, 4

Topscorer 6 times: Riva
5 times: P. Rossi
4 times: R. Baggio & F. Inzaghi
3 times: Mazzola, Altobelli, Vialli, Vieri & Toni
twice: Bettega, Graziani, Cabrini, Del Piero, Gilardino.