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

See also

• FIFA 100
• UEFA Jubilee Awards
• UEFA Club Football Awards

External links

• UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll Media Release
• UEFA Awards