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	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

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.

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
	Günter Netzer	Borussia Mönchengladbach Real Madrid	West Germany
11	Ulrich Hoeneß	Bayern Munich	West Germany	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	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

• France Football Official Ballon d'Or page