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EURO finals free-kicks: the full list

Some 24 goals have been scored from direct free-kicks at UEFA European Championships; see the list.

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The full list: direct free-kicks scored at EURO

1964: Dezső Novák (Hungary 3-1 Denmark, 20/06/1964, third-place play-off)
1968: Angelo Domenghini (Italy 1-1 Yugoslavia, 08/06/1968, final)
1976: Dragan Džajić (Netherlands 3-2 Yugoslavia, aet,19/06/1976, third-place play-off)
1980: Antonín Panenka (Greece 1-3 Czechoslovakia, 14/06/1980, group stage)
1984: Michel Platini (France 3-2 Yugoslavia, 19/06/1984, group stage)
1984
: Jean-François Domergue (France 3-2 Portugal, aet, 23/06/1984, semi-finals)
1984: Michel Platini (France 2-0 Spain, 27/06/1984, final)
1988: Rafael Gordillo (Denmark 2-3 Spain, 11/06/1988, group stage)
1992: Thomas Hassler (USSR 1-1 Germany, 12/06/1992, group stage)
1992: Thomas Hassler (Sweden 2-3 Germany, 21/06/1992, semi-finals)

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1996: Hristo Stoichkov (France 3-1 Bulgaria, 18/06/1996, group stage)
2000: Frank de Boer (France 2-3 Netherlands, 21/06/1996, group stage)
2000: Zinédine Zidane (Spain 1-2 France, 25/06/1996, quarter-finals)
2004: Zinédine Zidane (France 2-1 England, 13/06/2004, group stage)
2004: Torsten Frings (Germany 1-1 Netherlands, 15/06/2004, group stage)
2004
: Marek Heinz (Germany 1-2 Czechia, 23/06/2004 group stage)
2008: Michael Ballack (Austria 0-1 Germany, 16/06/2008, group stage)
2008: Daniele De Rossi (France 0-2 Italy, 17/06/2008, group stage)
2012: Andrea Pirlo (Italy 1-1 Croatia, 14/06/2012, group stage)
2016: Gareth Bale (Wales 2-1 Slovakia, 11/06/2016, group stage)

2016: Eric Dier (England 1-1 Russia, 11/06/2016, group stage)
2016: Gareth Bale (England 2-1 Wales, 16/06/2016, group stage)
2016: Balázs Dzsudzsák (Hungary 3-3 Portugal, 22/06/2016, group stage)
2020
: Mikkel Damsgaard (England 2-1 Denmark, aet, 07/07/2021, semi-finals)

Free-kick facts

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  • Three players have scored two free-kicks in the same EURO tournament: Michel Platini (1984), Thomas Hassler (1992) and Gareth Bale (2016).
  • Zinédine Zidane is the only player to score free-kicks in different tournaments (2000 and 2004).
  • France scored with three direct free-kicks in 1984, through Platini – two – and Jean-François Domergue.
  • Platini, in 1984, is the only player to score direct from a free-kick in a EURO final.
  • French players have scored the most EURO free-kicks with five.

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