1973 Ballon d'Or Results
The Ballon d'Or award is an annual football award for the best player from the previous year. Up until 1995 it was awarded only to football players from Europe and was generally known as the European Footballer of the Year award.
Johan Cruyff being presented with one of his three Ballon d'Or awardsBelow are the nominees in the final order after voting for the 1973 award. The winner was the Dutch player Johan Cruyff, his second of three Ballon d'Or awards. Cruyff also won in 1971 and 1974. In second place was Italian goalkeeper Dino Zoff. Only one goalkeeper has won the award, Russian Lev Yashin in 1963. See the list of all Ballon d'Or winners.
Final order for the men's 1973 Ballon d'Or
| Order | Player | Club | Nationality | 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 |
| Günter Netzer | Germany | Borussia Mönchengladbach / Real Madrid | 11 | |
| 11 | Uli Hoeneß | West Germany | Bayern Munich | 8 |
| 12 | Hristo Bonev | Bulgaria | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 7 |
| Giacinto Facchetti | Italy | Internazionale | 7 | |
| 14 | Juan Manuel Asensi | Spain | 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 | 1. FC 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 FF / 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 2 | |
| 23 | Vladislav Bogićević | Yugoslavia | Red Star Belgrade | 1 |
| Dragan Džajić | Yugoslavia | Red Star Belgrade | 1 | |
| Pat Jennings | Northern Ireland | Tottenham Hotspur | 1 | |
| Denis Law | Scotland | Manchester City | 1 | |
| Ivo Viktor | Czechoslovakia | Dukla Prague | 1 |
Related Pages
- Ballon d'Or Home
- Men's Ballon d'Or Winner's List
- Football Awards Lists
- Profile of Johan Cruyff
- List of the FIFA male player of the year and FIFA female player of the year.
- History of the Ballon d'Or
- The Year in Sport: 1973
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