UEFA Team of the Tournament

The UEFA Technical Team was charged with naming a squad composed of the 23 best players over the course of the tournament. The group of eleven analysts watched every game at the tournament before making their decision after the final. Ten players from the winning Spanish team were selected in the team of the tournament, while Zlatan Ibrahimović is the only player knocked out in the group stage were included.

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Iker Casillas	Jordi Alba	Steven Gerrard	Cesc Fàbregas
Manuel Neuer	Gerard Piqué	Sami Khedira	David Silva
Gianluigi Buffon	Sergio Ramos	Mesut Özil	Mario Balotelli
	Philipp Lahm	Andrea Pirlo	Cristiano Ronaldo
	Fábio Coentrão	Daniele De Rossi	Zlatan Ibrahimović
	Pepe	Xabi Alonso
		Sergio Busquets
		Xavi
		Andrés Iniesta

Golden Boot

In the event of a tie, the Golden Boot will be awarded to the player with the most assists. In a further tie, the winner will be the player spending the least time playing in the tournament. Fernando Torres tied with five other players on goals and with Mario Gómez on goals and assists; however he spent 92 minutes less on the pitch compared to Gómez and this owned him the title. Torres also became the first player to score in two finals. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar of Netherlands was the over-all topscorer for Euro 2012 including qualification by 12 goals.

• Fernando Torres (3 goals)

UEFA Player of the Tournament

• Andrés Iniesta