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- European Footballer of the Year 1973 -

 Name  Country  Club
Pts.
1.
 Johan Cruyff  Holland  FC 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.
 Eusebio  Portugal  Benfica 14
8.
 Gianni Rivera  Italy  AC Milan 12
9.
 Gunter Netzer  West Germany  Borussia M'gladbach 11
 Ralf Edström  Sweden  PSV Eindhoven 11
11.
 Uli Hoeness  West Germany  Bayern Munich 8
12.
 Giacinto Facchetti  Italy  Inter Milan 7
   Hristo Bonev  Bulgaria  Lokomotiv Plovdiv 7
14.
 Juan Manuel Asensi  Spain  FC Barcelona 5
 Alessandro Mazzola  Italy  Inter Milan 5
 Jan Tomaszewski  Poland  LKS Lodz 5
17.
 Wlodzimierz Lubanski  Poland  Gornik Zabrze 4
18.
 Wolfgang Overath  West Germany  1. FC Köln 3
19.
 Barry Hulshoff  Holland  Ajax 2
 Johan Kreische  East Germany  Hansa Rostock 2
 Bobby Moore  England  West Ham United 2
 Roland Sandberg  Sweden  1. FC Kaiserslautern 2
23.
 Vladislav Bogicevic  Yugoslavia  Red Star Belgrade 1
   Dragan Dzajic  Yugoslavia  Red Star Belgrade 1
   Pat Jennings  Northern Ireland  Tottenham Hotspur 1
   Denis Law  Scotland  Manchester City 1
 Ivo Viktor  Czechoslovakia  Dukla Prague 1
 


Johan Cruyff led Ajax to their third consecutive European Cup in 1973. Playing their revolutionary brand of attacking football, Cruyff and his teammates also won the Dutch championship and the European Supercup. That summer Cruyff was transfered to Barcelona.

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 24 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia. The result was announced in France Football (December 25, 1973).



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