The all time
top scorer of Euro Cup is Michele Platini of France. A legendary footballer, Platini's goal scoring prowess made his country the winner of 1984 Euro Championship. He scored 9 goals in 5 matches to emerge the highest scorer of the tournament. No one has ever been able to score so many goals in a single Euro cup.
Marco Van Basten of The Netherlands, another all time great soccer player comes second with 5 goals in the 1988 Euro Finals. His compatriot Patrick Kluivert, England's Alan Shearer and Milan Baros of the Czech Republic repeated his feat in the following tournaments. A list of the highest scorers in the European championships is given below:
1960 – Victor Ponedelink and Kozmitsch Ivanov of U.S.S.R, Drauen Jerkovic and Milan Galic of Yugoslavia and Franaois Heutte of France all with 2 goals each.
1964 – Dezs Novik of Hungary and Pereda of Spain, both with 2 goals.
1968 – Dragan Dzajic of Yugoslavia with 2 goals.
1972 – Gerd Muller of West Germany with 4 goals.
1976 – Dieter Muller of West Germany with 4 goals.
1980 – Klaus Allofs of West Germany again with 3 goals.
1984 – Michele Platini of France with 9 goals.
1988 – Marco Van Basten with 5 goals.
1992 – Dennis Bergkamp of Netherlands with 3 goals.
1996 – Alan Shearer of England with 5 goals.
2000 – Patrick Kluivert of Netherlands with 5 goals.
2004 – Milan Baros of Czech Republic with 5 goals.
Some top strikers of the football world are due to play in Euro 2008 and the football freaks are eager to see who wins the honor of being the top scorer this time.
