Lucky Torres, Bags Golden Boot

Fernando Torres has been established by UEFA as the champion of its esteemed Golden Boot award for Euro 2012.

Torres's goal and help in the concluding six minutes of Spain's 4-0 victory over Italy in the final took him to three goals and one assist for the competition - level with Germany's Mario Gomez who as well has three goals and an assist.

Nevertheless, Torres took home the Golden Boot award by high merit of having played less minutes (189) at the competition than Gomez (282).

Netherlands striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar ended Euro 2012 as the in general top scorer in spite of not scoring in the finals for the reason that of his 12 goals in the qualifying campaign.

Michel Platini's nine goals at the 1984 UEFA European Championship finals for France still remnants the top scorer record for a particular contest.

UEFA Euro 2012 final tournament top scorers

3
Fernando Torres (Spain)
Mario Gomez (Germany)
Mario Balotelli (Italy)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)
Alan Dzagoev (Russia)
Mario Mandžukić (Croatia)

2
Nicklas Bendtner (Denmark)
Cesc Fàbregas (Spain)
Zlatan Ibrahimović (Sweden)
Petr Jiráček (Czech Republic)
Michael Krohn-Dehli (Denmark)
Václav Pilař (Czech Republic)
Dimitris Salpingidis (Greece)
Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine)
Xabi Alonso (Spain)
David Silva (Spain)

UEFA Euro 2012 overall top scorers
12
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Netherlands)

10
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)
Miroslav Klose (Germany)

9
Mario Gomez (Germany)

7
Antonio Cassano (Italy)
Alan Dzagoev (Russia)
Mikael Forssell (Finland)
Zlatan Ibrahimović (Sweden)
Robbie Keane (Republic of Ireland)
Robin van Persie (Netherlands)
David Villa (Spain)