The club's return to the English top flight heralded another period of relative success, with a squad that included stars Derek Dougan, Kenny Hibbitt and Frank Munro finishing the 1970 – 71 season in fourth place, qualifying them for the newly created UEFA Cup.

A " Euro 2004 Edition " was also created during the UEFA Euro 2004 football championship, where the badgers wore England football jerseys to " footy, footy, footy " and " England!

The year 1960 was the year that UEFA created the European Football Championship, a football tournament similar to the FIFA World Cup, but for European nations.

It was created in the 2003-04 season to provide an English representative in the UEFA Regions ' Cup.

This created a problem, as the agreement between UEFA and the organizers stipulated that four venues would be used in each country.

With Ireland he was a member of the 2002 FIFA World Cup squad and played in UEFA Euro 2012, notably after almost single-handedly stopping a Russian team which totally dominated midfield and created wave after wave of attacks during a qualifier in Moscow.

The following season's European campaign saw the club finish bottom of its group in the UEFA Champions League, failing to qualify for the UEFA Cup, the first time the club had not reached the knock-out stages of the tournament since it was created in 1992.

He changed the name of the club back to the original " Panionios GSS " FC and hired German coach Ewald Lienen who, during his first year created a team that made it to the top 5 of the Greek Super League and on to the UEFA Cup.

* UEFA European Championship 1988 Top Scorer and Best Player with 5 goals

* UEFA Best Player of the Year: 1989, 1990, 1992

Maldini played at a world class level for his entire career spanning 2 and a half decades, and won the Best Defender trophy at the UEFA Club Football Awards at the age of 39.

Prior to his death, Best was voted 16th in the IFFHS World Player of the Century election in 1999 and was one of the inaugural 22 inductees into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 ; in 2004 he was also voted 19th in the public UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll and named by Pelé as one of the 125 best living footballers in the world.

Ronaldo was third in the 2010 – 11 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award, behind Lionel Messi and Xavi, and second in the 2011 FIFA Ballon d ' Or, behind Lionel Messi and ahead of Xavi.

Ronaldo was second ( tied with Lionel Messi ) in the 2011 – 12 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award, only behind Andrés Iniesta.

Consequently, he was selected as the " UEFA Club Best Goalkeeper of the Year ", being the first Portuguese goalkeeper to win this individual title ; this was not, however, good enough for Euro 2004 – played on home soil – selection, with Sporting Clube de Portugal's Ricardo Pereira being controversially preferred.

* UEFA Club Best Goalkeeper of the Year: 2003 – 04

Individually Van der Sar has won several honours, including Best European Goalkeeper in 1995 and 2009, and UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year in 2009.

He enjoyed a long and successful stint in their senior side, winning the 1991 – 92 UEFA Cup and the 1994 – 95 UEFA Champions League, as well as the 1995 Best European Goalkeeper award.

Nevertheless, he won Best European Goalkeeper award from UEFA for the second time, 14 years after he first won it at Ajax.

He was named UEFA Club Footballer of the Year and UEFA Best Midfielder in Porto's Champions League-winning season and was named Man of the Match in the 2003 – 04 Champions League final.

Deco was the first player to win the UEFA Best Midfielder Award with two different clubs, Porto and Barcelona.

Deco won the UEFA Best Midfielder Award yet again for his performance in Barça's Champions League-winning season, enabling him to join the exclusive group of players that have won the same award more than once with different teams, having won the Champions League previously with Porto.

On 7 December 2011, Dmitri Bulykin was voted Best Russian Football Player abroad by the Russian Football Union, but was unable to attend the Gala in Moscow to receive his award, due to the event being scheduled at the same time as the UEFA Champions League home match against Real Madrid.

* UEFA Club Best Defender of the Year ( 2 ): 1998 – 99, 1999 – 00

Subsequently, his great performances merited the UEFA Club Best Defender of the Year award, voted into the UEFA Team of the Year, and was named one of the 50 players shortlisted for the European Footballer of the Year ( Ballon d ' Or ), finishing ninth in the voting, being the only defender in top ten.

* UEFA Champions League Best Defender: 1997 – 98

In 2003, he was awarded the UEFA Jubilee Awards for The Best Cypriot Footballer of the 20th Century.

In the latter of which he was voted the Best Defender of the 2001 UEFA Champions League season.

* UEFA German Golden Player: 2003

With the departure of Mark Jones at the end of the 2007 season Deryn Brace took over as Player / Manager and Town hosted their first European tie ( UEFA Cup ) at Richmond Park on the 19th of July.

Probably it's most notable home-bred footballers are definitely Dragan Džajić ( retired ), officially the best player in the history of Serbia ( the choice of the Football Association on the 50th anniversary of UEFA, known as the Golden Player ), who achieved the 3rd place at the election for the European Footballer of the Year in 1968, and is part, next to players like Zidane, Van Basten and Beckenbauer, of " the greatest European Championship XI of all time ", elected by Goal. com.

Matthäus continued to enjoy further success with Inter, winning the UEFA Cup in 1991 and being named FIFA World Player of the Year.

Cole has the distinction of being one of the few players in England to have swept all possible honours in the English game, including the PFA Young Player of the Year award, as well as the coveted UEFA Champions League title.

Named as Croatia's Golden Player for the UEFA 2003 Jubilee anniversary, he is also on the FIFA 100 list of the top 125 greatest footballers and is the only Croatian on the list.

The 1966 squad was made up of many of the all-time great Azerbaijani footballers, including forwards Anatoliy Banishevskiy ( the UEFA Golden Player for Azerbaijan ) and Kazbek Tuaev, midfielder Aleksandr Trofimov, and goalkeeper Sergey Kramarenko.

UEFA Golden Player Award

He was also named in the 2006 UEFA Team of the Year, and named FA Premier League Player of the Month for January 2007.

* UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship Golden Player: 2004

A player with exceptional pace, he won the PFA Young Player of the Year Award in the 1998 – 99 season, but Arsenal failed to defend their Premier League title and made little progress in the UEFA Champions League, while Anelka wanted a better salary.

Brescia actually came to the footballing forefront only in 2000, however, when the previously-unfancied club signed former FIFA World Player of the Year Roberto Baggio, who led Brescia to a seventh place finish in the 2000 – 01 season, the best result during its time in Serie A, thus qualifying for the UEFA Intertoto Cup.

* UEFA. com – Golden Player of Estonia

For his stellar play throughout the competition, he was voted the Vodafone Fans ' Player of the Season in a poll of over 100, 000 UEFA. com visitors.

Organised by FIFA and UEFA in consultation with the Royal Spanish Football Federation, and with support from FC Barcelona who provided their stadium and staff free of charge, this benefit match for the victims of the tsunami saw an XI led by Ronaldinho, the 2004 FIFA World Player of the Year, beat a team captained by Andriy Shevchenko, the 2004 European Footballer of the Year, by six goals to three.

Player can choose from 51 national teams and it includes more game modes then UEFA Euro 2000, such as a fantasy mode, where two teams composed by hand-picked players square-off with each other, leagues and a knock-out " home and away " friendly match and a penalty shoot-out mode, as well as Euro 2004 qualifying, and Euro 2004 itself.

At Ipswich, Beattie was the 1973 – 74 PFA Young Player of the Year ( the very first winner of the award ), and he also won the FA Cup in 1978 and the UEFA Cup in 1981.