1973 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, was awarded to Dutch midfielder Johan Cruyff, for the second time.

Rankings

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club(s)	Points
1	Johan Cruyff	Netherlands	Ajax Barcelona	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	Milan	12
9	Ralf Edström	Sweden	Åtvidabergs FF PSV Eindhoven	11
	Gunter Netzer	Germany	Borussia Mönchengladbach Real Madrid
11	Uli Hoeneß	West Germany	Bayern Munich	8
12	Hristo Bonev	Bulgaria	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	7
	Giacinto Facchetti	Italy	Internazionale
14	Juan Manuel Asensi	Spain	Barcelona	5
	Sandro Mazzola	Italy	Internazionale
	Jan Tomaszewski	Poland	ŁKS Łódź
17	Włodzimierz Lubański	Poland	Górnik Zabrze	4
18	Wolfgang Overath	West Germany	1. FC Köln	3
19	Barry Hulshoff	Netherlands	Ajax	2
	Hans-Jürgen Kreische	East Germany	Dynamo Dresden
	Bobby Moore	England	West Ham United
	Roland Sandberg	Sweden	Åtvidabergs FF 1. FC Kaiserslautern
23	Vladislav Bogićević	Yugoslavia	Red Star Belgrade	1
	Dragan Džajić	Yugoslavia	Red Star Belgrade
	Pat Jennings	Northern Ireland	Tottenham Hotspur
	Denis Law	Scotland	Manchester City
	Ivo Viktor	Czechoslovakia	Dukla Prague

Source: France Football

External links

• France Football Official Ballon d'Or page