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

Player Nation Votes
1 Zinedine Zidane Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  France 123,582
2 Franz Beckenbauer Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Germany 122,569
3 Johan Cruyff Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Netherlands 119,332
4 Marco Van Basten Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Netherlands 117,987
5 Dino Zoff Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Italy 114,529
6 Alfredo Di Stéfano Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Argentina
Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Spain
107,435
7 Eusébio Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Portugal
Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Mozambique
103,937
8 Lev Yashin Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Russia 101,862
9 Michel Platini Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  France 99,380
10 Paolo Maldini Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Italy 95,497
11 Ferenc Puskás Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Hungary
Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Spain
94,361
12 Paolo Rossi Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Italy 91,194
13 Ruud Gullit Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Netherlands 91,001
14 Bobby Charlton Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  England 89,921
15 Lothar Matthäus Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  West Germany
Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Germany
86,798
16 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  West Germany 86,649
17 Franco Baresi Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Italy 83,800
18 Gerd Müller Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  West Germany 82,668
19 George Best Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Northern Ireland 79,036
20 Kevin Keegan Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  England 78,840
21 Frank Rijkaard Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Netherlands 71,333
22 David Beckham Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  England 71,299
23 Bobby Moore Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  England 70,884
24 Roberto Baggio Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Italy 68,239
25 Michael Laudrup Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Denmark 67,484
26 Ronald Koeman Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Netherlands 66,661
27 Peter Schmeichel Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Denmark 66,463
28 Gheorghe Hagi Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Romania 62,383
29 Sepp Maier Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  West Germany 62,375
30 Oliver Kahn Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Germany 58,151
31 Luís Figo Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Portugal 58,078
32 Raúl Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Spain 56,880
33 Berti Vogts Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  West Germany 55,398
34 Johan Neeskens Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Netherlands 54,796
35 Gianni Rivera Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Italy 53,874
36 José Antonio Camacho Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Spain 53,873
37 Marco Tardelli Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Italy 53,732
38 Just Fontaine Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  France 53,612
39 Peter Shilton Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  England 50,841
40 Bernd Schuster Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  West Germany 50,247
41 Raymond Kopa Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  France 49,504
42 Eric Cantona Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  France 48,436
43 Stanley Matthews Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  England 47,915
44 Ruud van Nistelrooy Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Netherlands 47,398
45 Valentin Ivanov Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Soviet Union 46,022
46 Gary Lineker Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  England 44,787
47 Alessandro Nesta Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Italy 44,667
48 José Santamaría Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Uruguay
Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Spain
43,690
49 Alessandro Del Piero Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Italy 43,227
50 Alessandro Costacurta Uefa Golden Jubilee Poll  Italy 42,511

See also

Tags:

Association footballFranz BeckenbauerGolden JubileeOpinion pollUEFAWebsiteZinedine Zidane

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