Spain striker David Villa has been crowned top scorer at UEFA EURO 2008™ despite missing the final because of a thigh injury.
Four-goal flurry
Villa scored four goals in Spain's first two games in Austria – three against Russia and one against Sweden – making him the first player to hit a UEFA European Championship finals hat-trick since 2000, and only the seventh overall. The 26-year-old Valencia CF forward was unable to add to that tally, but nevertheless finished one goal clear of Germany's Lukas Podolski, Roman Pavlyuchenko of Russia, Switzerland's Hakan Yakin and Semih Şentürk of Turkey. Twelve players registered two goals each, including Villa's team-mates Daniel Güiza and final hero Fernando Torres, plus Germany trio Michael Ballack, Miroslav Klose and Bastian Schweinsteiger.
UEFA EURO 2008™ top scorers | Player | Team | Goals | David Villa | Spain | 4 | Roman Pavlyuchenko | Russia | 3 | Lukas Podolski | Germany | |
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UEFA EURO 2008™ top scorers including qualifying | Player | Team | Goals | David Healy | Northern Ireland | 13 | Lukas Podolski | Germany | 11 | David Villa | Spain | 11 | Eduardo da Silva | Croatia | 10 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 9 | Euzebiusz Smolarek | Poland | 9 | John Dahl Tomasson | Denmark | 8 |
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UEFA European Championship finals top scorers year by year (1960-1976: from semi-finals; 1980-2004: from final tournament group stage) | Year | Player | Team | Goals | 2004 | Milan Baroš | Czech Republic | 5 | 2000 | Patrick Kluivert Savo Milošević | Netherlands Yugoslavia | 5 | 1996 | Alan Shearer | England | 5 | 1992 | Dennis Bergkamp Thomas Brolin Henrik Larsen Karl-Heinze Riedle | Netherlands Sweden Denmark Germany | 3 | 1988 | Marco van Basten | Netherlands | 5 | 1984 | Michel Platini
| France | 9
| 1980 | Klaus Allofs | West Germany | 3
| 1976 | Dieter Müller | West Germany | 4 | 1972 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | 4 | 1968 | Dragan Džajić | Yugoslavia | 2 | 1964 | Ferenc Bene Dezső Novák Jesús María Pereda | Hungary Hungary Spain | 2 | 1960 | Milan Galić François Heutte Valentin Ivanov Dražan Jerković Viktor Ponedelnik | Yugoslavia France Soviet Union Yugoslavia Soviet Union | 2 |
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