Ballon d'Or 1973

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, was awarded to Dutch midfielder Johan Cruyff, for the second time.

Rankings

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

Source: http://www.francefootball.fr/Ballon Or 1973

External links

• France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

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