|
Name |
Country |
Club |
Pts. |
1. |
Johan Cruyff |
Holland |
FC Barcelona |
116 |
2. |
Franz Beckenbauer |
West Germany |
Bayern Munich |
105 |
3. |
Kazimierz Deyna |
Poland |
Legia Warsaw |
35 |
4. |
Paul Breitner |
West Germany |
Bayern Munich |
32 |
5. |
Johan Neeskens |
Holland |
FC Barcelona |
21 |
6. |
Grzegorz Lato |
Poland |
Stal Mielec |
16 |
7. |
Gerd Müller |
West Germany |
Bayern Munich |
14 |
8. |
Robert Gadocha |
Poland |
Legia Warsaw |
11 |
9. |
Billy Bremner |
Scotland |
Leeds United |
9 |
10. |
Ralf Edström |
Sweden |
PSV Eindhoven |
4 |
|
Jürgen Sparwasser |
East Germany |
1. FC Magdeburg |
4 |
|
Berti Vogts |
West Germany |
Borussia M'gladbach |
4 |
13. |
Jan Tomaszewski |
Poland |
LKS Lodz |
3 |
|
Ronnie Hellström |
Sweden |
1. FC Kaiserslautern |
3 |
15. |
Jose Altafini |
Italy |
Juventus |
2 |
|
Hristo Bonev |
Bulgaria |
Lokomotiv Plovdiv |
2 |
|
Jerzy Gorgon |
Poland |
Gornik Zabrze |
2 |
|
Sepp Maier |
West Germany |
Bayern Munich |
2 |
19. |
Oleg Blokhin |
Soviet Union |
Dynamo Kiev |
1 |
|
Rainer Bonhof |
West Germany |
Borussia M'gladbach |
1 |
|
Jean-Marc Guillou |
France |
Angers SCO |
1 |
|
Uli Hoeness |
West Germany |
Bayern Munich |
1 |
|
Branko Oblak |
Yugoslavia |
Hajduk Split |
1 |
| |
Johan Cruyff starred as the Dutch national team put on a brilliant display of
total football at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. In addition,
El Salvador guided FC Barcelona to their first Spanish league title in more than a decade.
The result listed above was the outcome of a ballot held amongst a panel of football journalists organised by the magazine
France Football, with one vote coming from each of the following 26 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England,
Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
Republic of Ireland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey,
West Germany and Yugoslavia. The result was announced in
France Football (December 31, 1974).