Europe XI

Europe XI

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

The Europe XI is an association football 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.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3][4]

Notable coaches

Matches

Date	Opponent	Stadium	Result	Goals for Europe XI	Reason
26 October 1938	England	Arsenal Stadium, London	0–3		[5]
10 May 1947	Great Britain	Hampden Park, Glasgow	1–6	Gunnar Nordahl	Home Nations return to FIFA[5]
21 October 1953	England	Wembley, London	4–4	Laszlo Kubala (2×), Giampiero Boniperti (2×)	90th anniversary of the FA[6]
13 August 1955	Great Britain	Windsor Park, Belfast	4–1	Jean Vincent, Bernard Vukas (3×)	75th anniversary of the Irish Football Association[6]
20 May 1964	Scandinavia	Idrætsparken, Copenhagen	4–2	Jimmy Greaves (2×), Denis Law, Eusébio	75th anniversary of the DBU[7]
23 September 1964	Yugoslavia	Marakana, Belgrade	7–2	Uwe Seeler (2×), Eusébio (4×), Jose Augusto	Skopje earthquake appeal fund[7]
28 April 1965	Great Britain	Victoria Ground, Stoke	6–4	Godfried Vandeboer, Ferenc Puskás (2×), Josef Masopust, Laszlo Kubala, Jackie Henderson	Stanley Matthews testimonial[8]
8 December 1970	Benfica	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon	2–3	Uwe Seeler, José Eulogio Gárate	Mário Coluna testimonial[9]
23 November 1971	West Ham United	Upton Park, London	4–4	Frank McDougall, Rodney Marsh (2×), Jimmy Greaves	Geoff Hurst testimonial[9]
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[10]
23 November 1972	South America	St. Jakob-Park, Basel	0–2		Pestalozzi charity match[11]
31 October 1973	South America	Estadi Olímpic, Barcelona	4–4	Eusébio, Salif Keita, Juan Manuel Asensi, Kurt Jara	FIFA charity match[12]
28 December 1979	Borussia Dortmund	Westfalenstadion, Dortmund	2–3	Safet Sušić, Vladimir Petrović	Match for UNICEF[13]
25 February 1981	Italy	Stadio Olimpico, Rome	3–0	Allan Simonsen, Vahid Halilhodžić, Tony Woodcock	Flood disaster appeal[14]
2 June 1981	Fenerbahçe S.K.	Şükrü Saracoğlu, Istanbul	0–3		75th anniversary of Fenerbahçe S.K.[14]
12 August 1981	Czechoslovakia	Letná-Stadion, Prague	0–4		80th anniversary of the Czechoslovak Football Association[14]
7 August 1982	World XI	Giants Stadium, New York	3–2	Kevin Keegan, Bruno Pezzey, Giancarlo Antognoni	FIFA charity match for UNICEF[15]
1993	Northern Cyprus		1–3		[16]
4 December 1997	World XI	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille	2–5	Marius Lacatus, Zinedine Zidane	[17]
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[18]
16 February 2005	World XI (Ronaldinho XI)	Camp Nou, Barcelona	3–6	Alessandro Del Piero, Gianfranco Zola	Football for Hope (Indian Ocean Tsunami funds)[2][19][20]
14. March 2007	Manchester United	Old Trafford, Manchester	3–4	Florent Malouda, El Hadji Diouf (2×)	UEFA Celebration Match[21][22][23][24]

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