1973 Ballon d'Or explained

1973 Ballon d'Or
Date:	25 December 1973
Presenter:	France Football
Award1 Type:	Won by
Award1 Winner:	Johan Cruyff (2nd award)
Previous:	1972
Main:	Ballon d'Or
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The 1973 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries on 25 December 1973.^[1] It was awarded to Dutch midfielder Johan Cruyff, for the second time.

Rankings

Rank	Player	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Johan Cruyff	Ajax Barcelona	Netherlands	96
2	Dino Zoff	Juventus	Italy	47
3	Gerd Müller	Bayern Munich		44
4	Franz Beckenbauer	Bayern Munich		30
5	Billy Bremner	Leeds United		22
6	Kazimierz Deyna	Legia Warsaw	Poland	16
7	Eusébio	Benfica	Portugal	14
8		Milan	Italy	12
9	Ralf Edström	Åtvidabergs FF PSV Eindhoven	Sweden	11
	Günter Netzer	Borussia Mönchengladbach Real Madrid
11	Uli Hoeneß	Bayern Munich		8
12	Hristo Bonev	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	Bulgaria	7
	Giacinto Facchetti	Internazionale	Italy
14	Juan Manuel Asensi	Barcelona	Spain	5
	Sandro Mazzola	Internazionale	Italy
	Jan Tomaszewski	ŁKS Łódź	Poland
17	Włodzimierz Lubański	Górnik Zabrze	Poland	4
18	Wolfgang Overath	1. FC Köln		3
19	Barry Hulshoff	Ajax	Netherlands	2
	Hans-Jürgen Kreische	Dynamo Dresden
	Bobby Moore	West Ham United
	Roland Sandberg	Åtvidabergs FF 1. FC Kaiserslautern	Sweden
23	Vladislav Bogićević	Red Star Belgrade		1
	Dragan Džajić	Red Star Belgrade
	Pat Jennings	Tottenham Hotspur
	Denis Law	Manchester City
	Ivo Viktor	Dukla Prague

Source: France Football

External links

• France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pierrend . José Luis . 22 June 2005 . European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1973 . RSSSF.