| Administrator: | Test and County Cricket Board |
| Cricket Format: | Limited overs cricket(40 overs per innings) |
| Tournament Format: | League |
| Champions: | Leicestershire |
| Count: | 1 |
| Participants: | 17 |
| Matches: | 136 |
| Most Runs: | 618 Clive Radley (Middlesex) |
| Most Wickets: | 34 Bob Clapp (Somerset) |
| Previous Year: | 1973 |
| Previous Tournament: | 1973 John Player League |
| Next Year: | 1975 |
| Next Tournament: | 1975 John Player League |
The 1974 John Player League was the sixth competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the first time by Leicestershire County Cricket Club.
| width=200 | Team | width=20 | Pld | width=20 | W | width=20 | T | width=20 | L | width=20 | N/R | width=20 | A | width=20 | Pts | width=60 | R/R |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leicestershire (C) | 16 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 54 | 4.787 | |||||||||
| 16 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 52 | 4.718 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 4.502 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 4.516 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 4.349 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 4.24 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 36 | 4.329 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 32 | 4.324 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 4.569 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 4.407 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 4.423 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 4.221 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 4.09 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 3.937 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 4.17 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 3.893 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4.064 | ||||||||||
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