Europe XI

Europe XI
First international
 England 3–0 Rest of Europe XI[a]
(London, England; 26 October 1938)
Biggest win
 Yugoslavia 2–7 Europe XI
(Belgrade, Yugoslavia; 23 September 1964)
Biggest defeat
 Great Britain 6–1 Rest of Europe
(Glasgow, Scotland; 10 May 1947)

The Europe XI is an association football scratch team mainly consisting of players from the UEFA region but, on occasion, players hailing from other continents playing for European teams are invited to play. The European XI play one-off games against clubs, national teams, collectives of other confederations, or a World XI made up of players from all the other continents.[2] Because of this, no governing body in the sport officially recognises the team and each incarnation of the team is not seen as a continuation of any other.[3] The causes for these games are anniversaries, testimonials or for charity. Proceeds earned from the games are donated to good causes and the players, coaching staff, and stadium owners are not paid for the event. In recent years, these games have been broadcast live on television.[4][5]

Matches

Date Opponent Stadium Result Goals for Europe XI Reason
26 October 1938  England Arsenal Stadium, London 0–3 75th anniversary of the FA[a][6][7][8]
10 May 1947  Great Britain Hampden Park, Glasgow 1–6 Gunnar Nordahl Home Nations return to FIFA[6][9][8][10][11]
21 October 1953  England Wembley, London 4–4 Laszlo Kubala (2×), Giampiero Boniperti (2×) 90th anniversary of the FA[12][13][8]
13 August 1955  Great Britain Windsor Park, Belfast 4–1 Jean Vincent, Bernard Vukas (3×) 75th anniversary of the Irish Football Association[12][9][8]
20 May 1964 Scandinavia Idrætsparken, Copenhagen 4–2 Jimmy Greaves (2×), Denis Law, Eusébio 75th anniversary of the DBU[14][9][8]
23 September 1964  Yugoslavia Marakana, Belgrade 7–2 Uwe Seeler (2×), Eusébio (4×), Jose Augusto Skopje earthquake appeal fund[14][8]
28 April 1965  Great Britain Victoria Ground, Stoke 6–4 Godfried van den Boer, Ferenc Puskás (2×), Josef Masopust, Laszlo Kubala, Jackie Henderson Stanley Matthews testimonial[15][9][8]
27 September 1967  Spain Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid 3–0 Sandro Mazzola, Eusébio, Fernand Goyvaerts Ricardo Zamora testimonial
8 December 1970 Benfica Estádio da Luz, Lisbon 2–3 Uwe Seeler, José Eulogio Gárate Mário Coluna testimonial[16][9][8]
23 November 1971 West Ham United Upton Park, London 4–4 Frank McDougall, Rodney Marsh (2×), Jimmy Greaves Geoff Hurst testimonial[16]
1 May 1972 Hamburger SV Volksparkstadion, Hamburg 7–3 Geoff Hurst, Ferenc Bene, Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, Kálmán Mészöly, George Best, Eusébio Uwe Seeler testimonial[17][9]
3 October 1972 South America St. Jakob-Park, Basel 0–2 Pestalozzi charity match[18]
31 October 1973 South America Camp Nou, Barcelona 4–4 Eusébio, Salif Keïta, Juan Manuel Asensi, Kurt Jara FIFA charity match[19]
28 December 1979 Borussia Dortmund Westfalenstadion, Dortmund 2–3 Safet Sušić, Vladimir Petrović Match for UNICEF[20]
25 February 1981  Italy Stadio Olimpico, Rome 3–0 Allan Simonsen, Vahid Halilhodžić, Tony Woodcock Flood disaster appeal[21]
2 June 1981 Fenerbahçe Şükrü Saracoğlu, Istanbul 0–3 75th anniversary of Fenerbahçe[21]
18 August 1981  Czechoslovakia Letná-Stadion, Prague 0–4 80th anniversary of the Czechoslovak Football Association[21]
7 August 1982 World XI Giants Stadium, New York City 3–2 Kevin Keegan, Bruno Pezzey, Giancarlo Antognoni FIFA charity match for UNICEF[22]
7 November 1995 Americas Camp Nou, Barcelona 3–4 Hristo Stoichkov, Arteaga, Igor Korneev UNICEF charity match.[23][24][25]
4 December 1997 World XI Stade Vélodrome, Marseille 2–5 Marius Lacatus, Zinedine Zidane Match played before 1998 FIFA World Cup draw[26]
18 August 1998 Manchester United Old Trafford, Manchester 4–8 Jean-Pierre Papin, Laurent Blanc, Martin Dahlin, Mark Wilson 40th anniversary of the Munich air disaster and Eric Cantona testimonial[27][28]
16 February 2005 World XI
(Ronaldinho XI)		 Camp Nou, Barcelona 3–6 Alessandro Del Piero, Gianfranco Zola Football for Hope (Indian Ocean Tsunami funds)[3][29][30][9]
14 March 2007 Manchester United Old Trafford, Manchester 3–4 Florent Malouda, El Hadji Diouf (2×) UEFA Celebration Match[31][32][33][34][35]

U18 selection

Date Opponent Stadium Result Goals for Europe XI Reason
27 February 2007 U18 Africa XI Mini Estadi, Barcelona 1–6 Aarón Ñíguez (2×), Manuel Fischer (2×), Bojan Krkić, Aleksandr Prudnikov 2007 UEFA–CAF Meridian Cup
1 March 2007 U18 Africa XI Mini Estadi, Barcelona 0–4 Krisztián Németh, Manuel Fischer, Aleksandr Prudnikov, Ádám Dudás 2007 UEFA–CAF Meridian Cup

Players

Rosters

Date Opponent Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards Coach Ref.
7 November 1995 Americas XI Andoni Cedrún
and Florin Prunea
 Ronald Koeman (c))
Iliyan Kiryakov
Abelardo
Tibor Selymes
and Dan Petrescu
Fernando Couto
Ruud Heus
Michel
Guillermo Amor
Michalis Kasapis
Igor Korneev
and Bernd Schuster
Pep Guardiola
Robert Prosinecki
Ilie Dumitrescu
Arteaga
Hristo Stoichkov
Philippe Vercruysse
 Johan Cruyff and Arsenio Iglesias [36]
21 January 1997 Africa XI Edwin van der Sar
Stanislav Cherchesov 		Matthias Sammer (c)
Frank de Boer
Jürgen Kohler and
Stéphane Henchoz 		Vincent Guérin
Paulinho Santos
Zvonimir Boban
Rui Costa
Ronald de Boer and
Andreas Möller
Pavel Nedvěd 		João Pinto
Jürgen Klinsmann and
Domingos Paciência
Pierluigi Casiraghi 		Berti Vogts and Rinus Michels
27 April 1997 Rest of World XI Stanley Menzo
 Ronald Koeman
Thomas Berthold
Laurent Blanc
 Georges Grün
Christian Karembeu and Jordi Cruyff Eusebio
 Eric Cantona (c)
Gianluca Vialli
Tomas Brolin
Hristo Stoichkov
Roberto Mancini and
Elvir Bolic
 Guy Roux [37]
4 December 1997 FIFA Rest of World XI Andreas Kopke
and Frode Grodås 		Heimo Pfeifenberger
Thomas Berthold
Billy Costacurta
Fernando Hierro
and Slavisa Jokanovic
Søren Colding
 Paul Ince
Krasimir Balakov
Zinedine Zidane (c)
Dominique Lemoine
Marius Lacatus
Patrick Kluivert
Alen Boksic
and Gordon Durie
Franz Beckenbauer [38]
18 August 1998 Manchester United Pascal Olmeta
 Gianluca Festa
William Prunier
Laurent Blanc
and Christophe Galtier
Albert Ferrer
Joel Cantona
 Paul Gascoigne
Vahirua
Mark Hughes Bryan Robson
and Lee Sharpe
Clive Wilson 		Eric Cantona (c)
Jean-Pierre Papin
Martin Dahlin
and Stéphane Paille 		[39]

Players with most selections

Testimonial and legends' matches are not included.

Player Selections Europe XI Matches Matches for the opposition Notes
Eric Cantona 2 1997, 1998 April 1997
Laurent Blanc 2 1997, 1998 April 1997
Ronald Koeman 2 1995, 1997 April 1997
Hristo Stoichkov 2 1995, 1997 April 1997

List of captains

The list includes all matches.

Period Team Captain Notes
1995 Ronald Koeman
1997 Matthias Sammer
1997 Eric Cantona
1997 Zinedine Zidane
1998 Eric Cantona (ret.) Manchester United match
2007 Henrik Larsson UEFA Celebration Match

Coaches

List of coaches

Period Coach Notes
1972 Helenio Herrera and
Karl Rappan
1995 Johan Cruyff and
Arsenio Iglesias 		November
1997 Berti Vogts and
Rinus Michels 		January
1997 Guy Roux April
1997 Franz Beckenbauer December
2007 Marcello Lippi

Other notable coaches

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Rest of Europe is sometimes recorded as FIFA[1]

References

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  22. ^ WXI History: 1982-1985
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  30. ^ Zahlreiche Tore und hohe Einnahmen für den Tsunami-Fonds
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  35. ^ Manchester United vs Europe XI - 50th anniversary football match
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  39. ^ Manchester Utd 8 European XI 4 - red11.org
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