Everything about 1974 World Cup totally explained
The
1974 FIFA World Cup, the tenth staging of the World Cup, was held in
West Germany from
June 13 to
July 7. West Germany had been chosen in July 1966 as
hosts by
FIFA. 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, was 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 won in
1954.
Qualification
Ninety-eight countries took part in the qualifying tournament, and as usual there were some high-profile failures on the road to the finals. England were among them, having lost out to Poland in their qualifying group. France, Spain and Hungary also failed to reach the finals. First-time qualifiers included East Germany, Haiti, Australia and Zaire, the first team from sub-Saharan Africa to reach the World Cup finals.
Summary
First Round
Attendances were rather low . 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, or by lack of funds.
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.
The format of the competition changed from
1970: 16 teams qualified, divided into four groups of four. The top two teams in each group advanced to the second round, where they split into two groups of four. The winners of each group played each other in the final, and the second place finishers in the third place match.
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 World Cup finals debut 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 average. 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 hadn't conceded a goal in 19 international matches).
Group 2 was a particularly close group. The group was decided by how many goals could Brazil, Yugoslavia and Scotland score to defeat Zaire. Every other game played in the group was drawn. So the three top teams all finished with four points. Yugoslavia hammered them 9-0. Brazil beat them 3-0. Scotland could only manage a 2-0 margin, and so were edged out of the tournament on goal difference. After holding the mighty Brazil to a goalless draw, and going through the group unbeaten, the Scots were entitled to feel very unlucky to be eliminated.
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. In one of the most politically charged matches of all time, it was the East that won, thanks to a late
Jürgen Sparwasser goal. Despite the fact that they were safely through to the second group round, the embarrassing result caused a realignment of the West German team that helped them win the Cup.
Second Group Round
Ironically, 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 all-South American match, Brazil managed to defeat Argentina 2-1 in a scrappy match. Argentina and East Germany tied 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.
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 the low-morale Brazil 1-0.
The Final
West Germany was led by
Franz Beckenbauer, while the Dutch had their star
Johan Cruijff, and their
Total Football system which had dazzled the competition. With just a minute gone on the clock, following a solo run, Cruijff 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 the 26th minute was soon awarded a penalty after
Bernd Hölzenbein fell within the Dutch area, causing British referee 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, but couldn't score, until when in the 43rd, 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, the European Champion of 1972, also won the 1974 World Cup.
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 in 2006 by
Ronaldo's 15 goals from three World Cups.
Mascot
The
official mascots of this World Cup were
Tip and
Tap, two boys wearing
outfit similar to West Germany's, with the letters WM (
Weltmeisterschaft, World Cup) and number 74.
Venues
Match officials
Africa
Squads
For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see
1974 FIFA World Cup squads.
Results
All times local
(CET/UTC+1)
First round
Group 1
| Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
|
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
+3 |
5 |
|
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
+3 |
4 |
|
3 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
2 |
|
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
5 |
-5 |
1 |
|score = 1 – 0
|report =
(Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
Breitner
|goals2 =
|stadium =
Olympiastadion,
West Berlin
|attendance = 83,168
|referee =
Dogan Babacan (Turkey) }}
|score = 2 – 0
|report =
(Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
Curran Streich
|goals2 =
|stadium =
Volksparkstadion,
Hamburg
|attendance = 10,000
|referee =
Youssou N'Diaye (Senegal) }}
|score = 0 – 3
|report =
(Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
Overath Cullmann Müller
|stadium =
Volksparkstadion,
Hamburg
|attendance = 35,000
|referee =
Mahmoud Mustafa Kamel (Egypt) }}
|score = 1 – 1
|report =
(Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
Ahumada
|goals2 =
Hoffmann
|stadium =
Olympiastadion,
West Berlin
|attendance = 20,000
|referee =
Aurelio Angonese (Italy) }}
|score = 0 – 0
|report =
(Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium =
Olympiastadion,
West Berlin
|attendance = 14,681
|referee =
Jafar Namdar (Iran) }}
|score = 1 – 0
|report =
(Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
Sparwasser
|goals2 =
|stadium =
Volksparkstadion,
Hamburg
|attendance = 60,350
|referee =
Ramon Barreto (Uruguay) }}
Group 2
| Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
|
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
10 |
1 |
+9 |
4 |
|
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
+3 |
4 |
|
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
+2 |
4 |
|
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
14 |
-14 |
0 |
|score = 0 – 0
|report =
(Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium =
Waldstadion,
Frankfurt
|attendance = 62,000
|referee =
Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland) }}
|score = 0 – 2
|report =
(Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
Lorimer Jordan
|stadium =
Westfalenstadion,
Dortmund
|attendance = 25,000
|referee =
Gerhard Schulenburg (West Germany) }}
|score = 9 – 0
|report =
(Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
Bajević Džajić Šurjak Katalinski Bogićević Oblak Petković
|goals2 =
|stadium =
Parkstadion,
Gelsenkirchen
|attendance = 20,000
|referee =
Omar Delgado Gómez (Colombia) }}
|score = 0 – 0
|report =
(Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium =
Waldstadion,
Frankfurt
|attendance = 50,000
|referee =
Arie van Gemert (Netherlands) }}
|score = 1 – 1
|report =
(Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
Jordan
|goals2 =
Karasi
|stadium =
Waldstadion,
Frankfurt
|attendance = 60,000
|referee =
González Archundía (Mexico) }}
|score = 0 – 3
|report =
(Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
Jairzinho Rivelino Valdomiro
|stadium =
Parkstadion,
Gelsenkirchen
|attendance = 35,000
|referee =
Nicolae Rainea (Romania) }}
Brazil beats Scotland by better goal difference
Group 3
| Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
|
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
6 |
1 |
+5 |
5 |
|
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
+3 |
4 |
|
3 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
-3 |
2 |
|
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
6 |
-5 |
1 |
|score = 0 – 2
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 = Rep
|stadium = Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover
|attendance = 53,700
|referee = Károly Palotai (Hungary) }}
|score = 0 – 0
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
|attendance = 22,500
|referee = Edison Perez Nunez (Peru) }}
|score = 1 – 1
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Pavoni
|goals2 = Bonev
|stadium = Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover
|attendance = 12,000
|referee = Jack Taylor (England) }}
|score = 0 – 0
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 =
|stadium = Westfalenstadion, Dortmund
|attendance = 53,700
|referee = Werner Winsemann (Canada) }}
|score = 4 – 1
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Neeskens
Rep
de Jong
|goals2 = Krol
|stadium = Westfalenstadion, Dortmund
|attendance = 52,100
|referee = Tony Boskovic (Australia) }}
|score = 3 – 0
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Edström
Sandberg
|goals2 =
|stadium = Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
|attendance = 27,100
|referee = Erich Linemayr (Austria) }}
Group 4
| Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
|
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
3 |
+9 |
6 |
|
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
5 |
+2 |
3 |
|
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
4 |
+1 |
3 |
|
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
14 |
-12 |
0 |
|score = 3 – 1
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Rivera
Benetti
Anastasi
|goals2 = Sanon
|stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich
|attendance = 51,100
|referee = Vicente Llobregat (Venezuela) }}
|score = 3 – 2
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Lato
Szarmach
|goals2 = Heredia
Babington
|stadium = Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
|attendance = 31,500
|referee = Clive Thomas (Wales) }}
|score = 1 – 1
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Houseman
|goals2 = Perfumo
|stadium = Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
|attendance = 68,900
|referee = Rudi Glöckner (East Germany) }}
|score = 0 – 7
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 = Lato
Deyna
Szarmach
Gorgoń
|stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich
|attendance = 23,400
|referee = Govindasamay Suppiah (Singapore) }}
|score = 4 – 1
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Yazalde
Houseman
Ayala
|goals2 = Sanon
|stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich
|attendance = 24,000
|referee = Pablo Sanchez Ibanez (Spain) }}
|score = 2 – 1
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Szarmach
Deyna
|goals2 = Capello
|stadium = Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
|attendance = 68,900
|referee = Hans-Joachim Weyland (West Germany) }}
Argentina beats Italy by better goal difference
Second round
Group A
| Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
|
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
+8 |
6 |
|
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
|
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
-3 |
1 |
|
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
-5 |
1 |
|score = 4 – 0
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Cruijff
Krol
Rep
|goals2 =
|stadium = Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
|attendance = 55,348
|referee = Bob Davidson (Scotland) }}
|score = 1 – 0
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Rivelino
|goals2 =
|stadium = Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover
|attendance = 58,463
|referee = Clive Thomas (Wales) }}
|score = 1 – 2
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Brindisi
|goals2 = Rivelino
Jairzinho
|stadium = Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover
|attendance = 38,000
|referee = Vital Loraux (Belgium) }}
|score = 0 – 2
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 = Neeskens
Rensenbrink
|stadium = Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
|attendance = 67,148
|referee = Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland) }}
|score = 1 – 1
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Houseman
|goals2 = Streich
|stadium = Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
|attendance = 53,054
|referee = Jack Taylor (England) }}
|score = 2 – 0
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Neeskens
Cruijff
|goals2 =
|stadium = Westfalenstadion, Dortmund
|attendance = 52,500
|referee = Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany) }}
Group B
| Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
|
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
2 |
+5 |
6 |
|
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
+1 |
4 |
|
3 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
-2 |
2 |
|
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
6 |
-4 |
0 |
|score = 0 – 2
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 = Breitner
Müller
|stadium = Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
|attendance = 66,085
|referee = Armando Marques (Brazil) }}
|score = 0 – 1
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 = Lato
|stadium = Neckarstadion, Stuttgart
|attendance = 43,755
|referee = Ramon Barreto (Uruguay) }}
|score = 2 – 1
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Deyna
Lato
|goals2 = Karasi
|stadium = Waldstadion, Frankfurt
|attendance = 55,000
|referee = Rudi Glöckner (East Germany) }}
|score = 4 – 2
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Overath
Bonhof
Grabowski
Hoeness
|goals2 = Edström
Sandberg
|stadium = Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
|attendance = 66,500
|referee = Nicolae Rainea (Romania) }}
|score = 0 – 1
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 = Müller
|stadium = Waldstadion, Frankfurt
|attendance = 59,000
|referee = Erich Linemayr (Austria) }}
|score = 2 – 1
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Edström
Torstensson
|goals2 = Šurjak
|stadium = Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
|attendance = 40,000
|referee = Luis Pestarino (Argentina) }}
Third place match
|score = 0 – 1
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 =
|goals2 = Lato
|stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich
|attendance = 74,100
|referee = Aurelio Angonese (Italy) }}
Final
|score = 1 – 2
|report = (Report)
|team2 =
|goals1 = Neeskens
|goals2 = Breitner
Müller
|stadium = Olympiastadion, Munich
|attendance = 75,200
|referee = Jack Taylor (England) }}
Awards
Scorers
7 goals
Grzegorz Lato
5 goals
Johan Neeskens
Andrzej Szarmach
4 goals
Gerd Müller
Johnny Rep
Ralf Edström
3 goals
René Houseman
Rivelino
Paul Breitner
Johan Cruijff
Kazimierz Deyna
Dušan Bajević
2 goals
Héctor Yazalde
Jairzinho
Joachim Streich
Wolfgang Overath
Emmanuel Sanon
Joe Jordan
Roland Sandberg
Stanislav Karasi
Ivica Šurjak
1 goal
Rubén Ayala
Carlos Babington
Miguel Ángel Brindisi
Ramón Heredia
Valdomiro
Hristo Bonev
Sergio Ahumada
Martin Hoffmann
Jürgen Sparwasser
Rainer Bonhof
Bernhard Cullmann
Jürgen Grabowski
Uli Hoeneß
Pietro Anastasi
Romeo Benetti
Fabio Capello
Gianni Rivera
Theo de Jong
Ruud Krol
Rob Rensenbrink
Jerzy Gorgoń
Peter Lorimer
Conny Torstensson
Ricardo Pavoni
Vladislav Bogićević
Dragan Džajić
Josip Katalinski
Branko Oblak
Ilija Petković
Own goals
Roberto Perfumo (for Italy)
Colin Curran (for East Germany)
Ruud Krol (for Bulgaria)
Further Information
Get more info on '1974 World Cup'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://1974_fifa_world_cup.totallyexplained.com">1974 FIFA World Cup Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
