1973 Ballon d'Or

1973 Ballon d'Or
1973 Ballon d'Or
	1973 Ballon d'Or winner, Johan Cruyff
Date	25 December 1973
Presented by	France Football
Highlights
Won by	Johan Cruyff (2nd award)
Website	ballondor.com
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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	West Germany	44
4	Franz Beckenbauer	Bayern Munich	West Germany	30
5	Billy Bremner	Leeds United	Scotland	22
6	Kazimierz Deyna	Legia Warsaw	Poland	16
7	Eusébio	Benfica	Portugal	14
8	Gianni Rivera	Milan	Italy	12
9	Ralf Edström	Åtvidabergs FF PSV Eindhoven	Sweden	11
9	Günter Netzer	Borussia Mönchengladbach Real Madrid	West Germany	11
11	Ulrich Hoeneß	Bayern Munich	West Germany	8
12	Hristo Bonev	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	Bulgaria	7
12	Giacinto Facchetti	Internazionale	Italy	7
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	West Germany	3
19	Barry Hulshoff	Ajax	Netherlands	2
	Hans-Jürgen Kreische	Dynamo Dresden	East Germany
	Bobby Moore	West Ham United	England
	Roland Sandberg	Åtvidabergs FF 1. FC Kaiserslautern	Sweden
23	Vladislav Bogićević	Red Star Belgrade	Yugoslavia	1
	Dragan Džajić	Red Star Belgrade	Yugoslavia
	Pat Jennings	Tottenham Hotspur	Northern Ireland
	Denis Law	Manchester City	Scotland
	Ivo Viktor	Dukla Prague	Czechoslovakia

Source: France Football

References

↑ Pierrend, José Luis (22 June 2005). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1973". RSSSF.

External links

France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

[1] Pierrend, José Luis (22 June 2005). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1973". RSSSF.

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