1974 FIFA World Cup

1974 FIFA World Cup
Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1974

1974 FIFA World Cup official logo
Tournament details
Host country West Germany
Dates 13 June – 7 July (25 days)
Teams 16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s) 9 (in 9 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  West Germany (2nd title)
Runners-up  Netherlands
Third place  Poland
Fourth place  Brazil
Tournament statistics
Matches played 38
Goals scored 97 (2.55 per match)
Attendance 1,865,762 (49,099 per match)
Top scorer(s) Poland Grzegorz Lato (7 goals)
Best young player Poland Władysław Żmuda

The 1974 FIFA World Cup, the tenth staging of the World Cup, was held in West Germany (including West Berlin) from 13 June to 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the current trophy, the FIFA World Cup Trophy, created by the Italian sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga, was awarded. The previous trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, had been won for the third time by Brazil in 1970 and awarded permanently to the Brazilians. The host nation won the title beating the Netherlands in the final, 2–1. The victory was the second for West Germany, who had also won in 1954. Australia, East Germany, Haiti and Zaire made their first appearances at the final stage, and the Netherlands and Poland their first since 1938.

Host selection

Main article: FIFA World Cup hosts

West Germany was chosen as the host nation by FIFA in London, England on 6 July 1966. Hosting rights for the 1978 and 1982 tournaments were awarded at the same time. West Germany agreed a deal with Spain by which Spain would support West Germany for the 1974 tournament, and in return West Germany would allow Spain to bid for the 1982 World Cup unopposed.

Qualification

  Countries qualified for World Cup
  Country failed to qualify
  Countries that did not enter World Cup
  Country not a FIFA member

Ninety-eight countries took part in the qualifying tournament, and some of football's most successful nations did not qualify. Between them, the champions of the 1966 tournament (England), France, the hosts of the 1970 tournament (Mexico), 1966 third-place finishers Portugal, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Spain were knocked out and failed to qualify for the finals. The USSR was disqualified after the playoff against Chile. First-time qualifiers included Australia, which would not qualify again until the next time the tournament was held in Germany, in 2006, and Zaire, the first team from sub-Saharan Africa to reach the finals.

Format

16 teams qualified, divided into four groups of four. Each played a round-robin with two points for a win and one for a draw, and goal difference used to separate teams level on points. The top two teams from each group advanced to the next stage. However, in a change from the format used in the previous five competitions, the second round consisted of another group stage: the eight remaining teams were divided into two groups of four. The winners of each group played each other in the final, and the second place teams in each group played each other in the third/fourth place match.

Summary

First round

The tournament was held mostly in bad weather, and the stadia had few protected places. Few western European nations had qualified, of which most were eliminated early. Fans from the Eastern neighbor states were hindered by political circumstances.

Carlos Caszely of Chile became the first player to be sent off with a red card in a World Cup match, during their match against West Germany. Red cards were formally introduced in World Cup play in 1970, but no players were sent off in that tournament.

Two teams made a particularly powerful impact on the first round. The Netherlands demonstrated the "Total football" techniques pioneered by the top Dutch club Ajax, in which specialised positions were virtually abolished for the outfield players, and individual players became defenders, midfielders or strikers as the situation required. The Dutch marked their first World Cup finals since 1938 by topping their first-round group, with wins over Uruguay and Bulgaria and a draw with Sweden. Sweden joined the Dutch in the second group round after beating Uruguay 3–0.

Poland, meanwhile, took maximum points from a group containing two of the favourites for the tournament. They beat Argentina 3–2, trounced Haiti 7–0, then beat Italy 2–1 – a result that knocked the Italians out of the Cup and resulted in Argentina sneaking to the second group round on goal difference. While Haiti didn't do particularly well in their first World Cup finals (losing all three of their games) they did have one moment of glory. In their opening game against Italy, they managed to take the lead with a goal from Emmanuel Sanon, before eventually losing 3–1 (Italy had not conceded a goal in 12 international matches). That goal proved to be a significant goal as it ended Dino Zoff's run of 1142 minutes without conceding a goal.

Group 2 was a particularly close group. With Brazil, Yugoslavia and Scotland drawing all their games against each other, it was decided by the number of goals these three teams scored when defeating Zaire. Yugoslavia hammered the African nation 9–0, equalling a finals record for the largest margin of victory. Brazil beat them 3–0. Scotland could only manage a 2–0 margin, and so were edged out of the tournament on goal difference. They also became the first ever country to be eliminated from a World Cup Finals without having lost a match.

Group 1 contained both East Germany and the host West Germany, and they both progressed at the expense of Chile and Australia. But the big clash was between the two German teams. West Germany was already assured of progression to the second round whatever the result. In one of the most politically charged matches of all time, it was the East that won, thanks to a late Jürgen Sparwasser goal. This embarrassing result forced a realignment of the West German team that helped them win the Cup.

Second round

Coincidentally, the two second-round groups both produced matches that were, in effect, semi-finals. In Group A, the Netherlands and Brazil met after each had taken maximum points from their previous two matches. In Group B, the same was true of West Germany and Poland – so the winners of these two games would contest the final.

In Group A, two goals from the inspirational Johan Cruyff helped the Dutch side thrash Argentina 4–0. At the same time, Brazil defeated East Germany 1–0. The Dutch triumphed over East Germany 2–0 while in the "Battle of the South Americans", Brazil managed to defeat Argentina 2–1 in a scrappy match. Argentina and East Germany drew 1–1 and were on their way home while the crucial match between the Netherlands and Brazil turned into another triumph for 'total football', as second-half goals from Johan Neeskens and Cruyff put the Netherlands in the final. However the match would also be remembered for harsh defending on both sides.

Meanwhile, in Group B, West Germany and Poland both managed to beat Yugoslavia and Sweden. The crucial game between the Germans and the Poles was goalless until the 76th minute, when Gerd Muller scored to send the hosts through 1–0. The Poles took third place after defeating Brazil 1–0.

Final

The final was held on 7 July 1974 at Olympiastadion, Munich. West Germany was led by Franz Beckenbauer, while the Dutch had their star Johan Cruyff, and their Total Football system which had dazzled the competition. With just a minute gone on the clock, following a solo run, Cruyff was brought down by Uli Hoeneß close to the German penalty area, and the Dutch took the lead from the ensuing penalty by Johan Neeskens before any German player had even touched the ball. West Germany struggled to recover, and in the 26th minute were awarded a penalty, after Bernd Hölzenbein fell within the Dutch area, causing English referee Jack Taylor to award another controversial penalty. Paul Breitner spontaneously decided to kick, and scored. These two penalties were the first in a World Cup final. West Germany now pushed, and in the 43rd minute, in his typical style, Gerd Müller scored what turned out to be the winning goal, and the last of his career as he retired from the national team. The second half saw chances for both sides, with Müller putting the ball in the net for a goal that was disallowed as offside. In the 85th, Hölzenbein was fouled again, but no penalty this time. Eventually, West Germany, European Champions of 1972, also won the 1974 World Cup.

This was the only case of the reigning European champions winning the World Cup, until Spain (champions of the UEFA Euro 2008) defeated the Netherlands in the South Africa 2010 FIFA World Cup Final. France have also held both trophies, albeit in a different order, at the same time by winning the 1998 World Cup followed by Euro 2000.

Joao Havelange (former FIFA President from 1974 to 1998) claimed that the 1966 and 1974 World Cups were fixed so that England and Germany would win respectively.[1]

This was only the second time that a team had won the World Cup after losing a match in the Finals (West Germany losing to East Germany during the group stage). The previous occasion was West Germany's earlier win in 1954.

Poland's Grzegorz Lato led the tournament in scoring seven goals. Gerd Müller's goal in the final was the 14th in his career of two World Cups, beating Just Fontaine's record of 13, in his single World Cup. Müller's record was only surpassed 32 years later, in 2006 by Ronaldo's 15 goals from three World Cups and then 8 years after, in 2014 by Klose's 16 goals from four World Cups.

Günter Netzer, who came on as a substitute for West Germany during the defeat by the East Germans, was playing for Real Madrid at the time: this is the first time that a World Cup winner has played for a club outside his home country.

This is the last of four FIFA World Cup tournaments to date with no extra-time matches. The others are 1930, 1950, and 1962 tournaments.

Mascot

The official mascots of this World Cup were Tip and Tap, two boys wearing an outfit similar to West Germany's, with the letters WM (Weltmeisterschaft, World Cup) and number 74.

Venues

FIFA World Cup venues in 1974
Munich West Berlin Hamburg
Olympiastadion Olympiastadion Volksparkstadion
Capacity: 77,573 Capacity: 86,000 Capacity: 61,300
Dortmund Düsseldorf Gelsenkirchen
Westfalenstadion Rheinstadion Parkstadion
Capacity: 53,600 Capacity: 70,100 Capacity: 72,000
Frankfurt Hanover Stuttgart
Waldstadion Niedersachsenstadion Neckarstadion
Capacity: 62,200 Capacity: 60,400 Capacity: 72,200

Match officials

AFC
CAF
  • Egypt Mahmoud Mustafa Kamel
  • Senegal Youssou N'Diaye
CONCACAF
  • Mexico Alfonso González Archundia
  • Canada Werner Winsemann
CONMEBOL

UEFA

OFC

 

Squads

For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see 1974 FIFA World Cup squads.

Seeding

It was agreed by a vote by the FIFA Organising Committee on who would be seeded.[2] There were four seeds, which would first be placed in separate groups:

Then the remaining spots in the groups were determined by dividing the participants into pots based on geographical sections.

Pot 1: Western European Pot 2: Eastern European Pot 3: South American Pot 4: Rest of The World

Results

Results of finalists

Group stage

Group 1

East German line-up v. Australia
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 East Germany 321041+35
 West Germany 320141+34
 Chile 302112−12
 Australia 301205−51

14 June 1974
16:00 CET
West Germany  1–0  Chile
Breitner  18' Report
Olympiastadion, West Berlin
Attendance: 81,100
Referee: Doğan Babacan (Turkey)

14 June 1974
19:30 CET
East Germany  2–0  Australia
Curran  58' (o.g.)
Streich  72'
Report
Volksparkstadion, Hamburg
Attendance: 15,800
Referee: Youssou N'Diaye (Senegal)

18 June 1974
16:00 CET
Australia  0–3  West Germany
Report Overath  12'
Cullmann  34'
Müller  53'
Volksparkstadion, Hamburg
Attendance: 53,300
Referee: Mahmoud Mustafa Kamel (Egypt)

18 June 1974
19:30 CET
Chile  1–1  East Germany
Ahumada  69' Report Hoffmann  55'
Olympiastadion, West Berlin
Attendance: 28,300
Referee: Aurelio Angonese (Italy)

22 June 1974
16:00 CET
Australia  0–0  Chile
Report
Olympiastadion, West Berlin
Attendance: 17,400
Referee: Jafar Namdar (Iran)

22 June 1974
19:30 CET
East Germany  1–0  West Germany
Sparwasser  77' Report
Volksparkstadion, Hamburg
Attendance: 60,200
Referee: Ramón Barreto (Uruguay)

Group 2

Jairzinho's goal against Zaire
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Yugoslavia 3120101+94
 Brazil 312030+34
 Scotland 312031+24
 Zaire 3003014−140

13 June 1974
17:00 CET
Brazil  0–0  Yugoslavia
Report
Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 59,000
Referee: Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)

14 June 1974
19:30 CET
Zaire  0–2  Scotland
Report Lorimer  26'
Jordan  34'
Westfalenstadion, Dortmund
Attendance: 25,800
Referee: Gerhard Schulenburg (West Germany)

18 June 1974
19:30 CET
Yugoslavia  9–0  Zaire
Bajević  8', 30', 81'
Džajić  14'
Šurjak  18'
Katalinski  22'
Bogićević  35'
Oblak  61'
Petković  65'
Report
Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
Attendance: 31,700
Referee: Omar Delgado Gómez (Colombia)

18 June 1974
19:30 CET
Scotland  0–0  Brazil
Report
Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 62,000
Referee: Arie van Gemert (Netherlands)

22 June 1974
16:00 CET
Scotland  1–1  Yugoslavia
Jordan  88' Report Karasi  81'
Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 56,000
Referee: Alfonso González Archundia (Mexico)

22 June 1974
16:00 CET
Zaire  0–3  Brazil
Report Jairzinho  12'
Rivellino  66'
Valdomiro  79'
Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
Attendance: 36,200
Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)

Group 3

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Netherlands 321061+55
 Sweden 312030+34
 Bulgaria 302125−32
 Uruguay 301216−51

15 June 1974
16:00 CET
Uruguay  0–2  Netherlands
Report Rep  7', 86'

15 June 1974
16:00 CET
Sweden  0–0  Bulgaria
Report
Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
Attendance: 23,800
Referee: Edison Perez Nunez (Peru)

19 June 1974
19:30 CET
Bulgaria  1–1  Uruguay
Bonev  75' Report Pavoni  87'
Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover
Attendance: 13,400
Referee: Jack Taylor (England)

19 June 1974
19:30 CET
Netherlands  0–0  Sweden
Report
Westfalenstadion, Dortmund
Attendance: 53,700
Referee: Werner Winsemann (Canada)

23 June 1974
16:00 CET
Bulgaria  1–4  Netherlands
Krol  78' (o.g.) Report Neeskens  5' (pen.), 44' (pen.)
Rep  71'
de Jong  88'
Westfalenstadion, Dortmund
Attendance: 53,300
Referee: Tony Boskovic (Australia)

23 June 1974
16:00 CET
Sweden  3–0  Uruguay
Edström  46', 77'
Sandberg  74'
Report
Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
Attendance: 28,300
Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

Group 4

Capello (No.8) is brought down v. Haiti
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Poland 3300123+96
 Argentina 311175+23
 Italy 311154+13
 Haiti 3003214−120

15 June 1974
18:00 CET
Italy  3–1  Haiti
Rivera  52'
Benetti  66'
Anastasi  79'
Report Sanon  46'
Olympiastadion, Munich
Attendance: 53,000
Referee: Vicente Llobregat (Venezuela)

15 June 1974
18:00 CET
Poland  3–2  Argentina
Lato  7', 62'
Szarmach  8'
Report Heredia  60'
Babington  66'
Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
Attendance: 32,700
Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)

19 June 1974
19:30 CET
Argentina  1–1  Italy
Houseman  20' Report Perfumo  35' (o.g.)
Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
Attendance: 70,100
Referee: Pavel Kazakov (Soviet Union)

19 June 1974
19:30 CET
Haiti  0–7  Poland
Report Lato  17', 87'
Deyna  18'
Szarmach  30', 34', 50'
Gorgoń  31'
Olympiastadion, Munich
Attendance: 25,300
Referee: Govindasamy Suppiah (Singapore)

23 June 1974
16:00 CET
Argentina  4–1  Haiti
Yazalde  15', 68'
Houseman  18'
Ayala  55'
Report Sanon  63'
Olympiastadion, Munich
Attendance: 25,900
Referee: Pablo Sánchez Ibáñez (Spain)

23 June 1974
16:00 CET
Poland  2–1  Italy
Szarmach  38'
Deyna  44'
Report Capello  85'
Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
Attendance: 70,100
Referee: Hans-Joachim Weyland (West Germany)

Second round

Group A

Streich heads East Germany into the lead v. Argentina
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Netherlands 330080+86
 Brazil 32013304
 East Germany 301214−31
 Argentina 301227−51

26 June 1974
19:30 CET
Netherlands  4–0  Argentina
Cruyff  11', 90'
Krol  25'
Rep  73'
Report
Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
Attendance: 56,548
Referee: Bob Davidson (Scotland)

26 June 1974
19:30 CET
Brazil  1–0  East Germany
Rivellino  60' Report
Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover
Attendance: 59,863
Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)

30 June 1974
16:00 CET
Argentina  1–2  Brazil
Brindisi  35' Report Rivellino  32'
Jairzinho  49'
Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover
Attendance: 39,400
Referee: Vital Loraux (Belgium)

30 June 1974
16:00 CET
East Germany  0–2  Netherlands
Report Neeskens  7'
Rensenbrink  59'

3 July 1974
19:30 CET
Argentina  1–1  East Germany
Houseman  20' Report Streich  14'
Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
Attendance: 54,254
Referee: Jack Taylor (England)

3 July 1974
19:30 CET
Netherlands  2–0  Brazil
Neeskens  50'
Cruyff  65'
Report

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 West Germany 330072+56
 Poland 320132+14
 Sweden 310246−22
 Yugoslavia 300326−40

26 June 1974
16:00 CET
Yugoslavia  0–2  West Germany
Report Breitner  39'
Müller  82'
Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
Attendance: 67,385
Referee: Armando Marques (Brazil)

26 June 1974
19:30 CET
Sweden  0–1  Poland
Report Lato  43'
Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
Attendance: 44,955
Referee: Ramón Barreto (Uruguay)

30 June 1974
16:00 CET
Poland  2–1  Yugoslavia
Deyna  24' (pen.)
Lato  62'
Report Karasi  43'
Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 58,000
Referee: Rudi Glöckner (East Germany)

30 June 1974
19:30 CET
West Germany  4–2  Sweden
Overath  51'
Bonhof  52'
Grabowski  76'
Hoeneß  89' (pen.)
Report Edström  24'
Sandberg  53'
Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
Attendance: 67,800
Referee: Pavel Kazakov (Soviet Union)

3 July 1974
16:30 CET
Poland  0–1  West Germany
Report Müller  76'
Waldstadion, Frankfurt
Attendance: 62,000
Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

3 July 1974
19:30 CET
Sweden  2–1  Yugoslavia
Edström  29'
Torstensson  85'
Report Šurjak  27'
Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
Attendance: 41,300
Referee: Luis Pestarino (Argentina)

Match for third place

6 July 1974
16:00 CET
Brazil  0–1  Poland
Report Lato  76'
Olympiastadion, Munich
Attendance: 77,100
Referee: Aurelio Angonese (Italy)

Final

7 July 1974
16:00 CET
Netherlands  1–2  West Germany
Neeskens  2' (pen.) Report Breitner  25' (pen.)
Müller  43'
Olympiastadion, Munich
Attendance: 78,200
Referee: Jack Taylor (England)

Goalscorers

With seven goals, Grzegorz Lato is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 97 goals were scored by 53 different players, with three of them credited as own goals.

7 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goals

FIFA retrospective ranking

In 1986, FIFA published a report that ranked all teams in each World Cup up to and including 1986, based on progress in the competition, overall results and quality of the opposition.[3][4] The rankings for the 1974 tournament were as follows:

R Team G P W D L GF GA GD Pts.
1  West Germany 1/B 7 6 0 1 13 4 +9 12
2  Netherlands 3/A 7 5 1 1 15 3 +12 11
3  Poland 4/B 7 6 0 1 16 5 +11 12
4  Brazil 2/A 7 3 2 2 6 4 +2 8
Eliminated in the second group stage
5  Sweden 3/B 6 2 2 2 7 6 +1 6
6  East Germany 1/A 6 2 2 2 5 5 0 6
7  Yugoslavia 2/B 6 1 2 3 12 7 +5 4
8  Argentina 4/A 6 1 2 3 9 12 −3 4
Eliminated in the first group stage
9  Scotland 2 3 1 2 0 3 1 +2 4
10  Italy 4 3 1 1 1 5 4 +1 3
11  Chile 1 3 0 2 1 1 2 −1 2
12  Bulgaria 3 3 0 2 1 2 5 −3 2
13  Uruguay 3 3 0 1 2 1 6 −5 1
14  Australia 1 3 0 1 2 0 5 −5 1
15  Haiti 4 3 0 0 3 2 14 −12 0
16  Zaire 2 3 0 0 3 0 14 −14 0

References

  1. "1966 & 1974 World Cups Were Fixed – Former FIFA President". Goal.com. 2008-06-26. Retrieved 2011-10-28.
  2. "FIFA World Cup seeded teams" (PDF). FIFA World Cup seeded teams 1930–2006.
  3. "page 45" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-10-28.
  4. "FIFA World Cup: Milestones, facts & figures. Statistical Kit 7" (PDF). FIFA. 26 March 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 May 2013.

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