Events

• The Football World Cup 1974 is held from June 12 to July 7 in West Germany
  West Germany
  West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
  
  . West Germany
  Germany national football team
  The Germany national football team is the football team that has represented Germany in international competition since 1908. It is governed by the German Football Association , which was founded in 1900....
  
   wins its second title, defeating much favored Netherlands
  Netherlands national football team
  The Netherlands National Football Team represents the Netherlands in association football and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association , the governing body for football in the Netherlands...
  
   2 – 1 in the final. Surprisingly, Poland
  Poland national football team
  The Poland national football team represents Poland in association football and is controlled by the Polish Football Association, the governing body for football in Poland...
  
   take 3rd after defeating Brazil
  Brazil national football team
  The Brazil national football team represents Brazil in international men's football and is controlled by the Brazilian Football Confederation , the governing body for football in Brazil. They are a member of the International Federation of Association Football since 1923 and also a member of the...
  
   1 – 0.
• European Cup
  European Cup 1973-74
  The 1973–74 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the first time by Bayern Munich, beginning their own three year period of domination, in a replayed final against Atlético Madrid...
  
  : Bayern Munich
  FC Bayern Munich
  FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups....
  
   beats Atlético Madrid 4 – 0 in the final. This was the first German EC win.
• UEFA Cup
  UEFA Cup
  The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...
  
  : Feyenoord wins 2–1 (Away) and 2–0 (Home) in the final against Tottenham Hotspur, winning the cup for the first time.
• UEFA Cup Winners Cup
  UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1973-74
  The season 1973-74 of the European Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by 1. FC Magdeburg in a final victory against defending champions A.C. Milan...
  
  : 1. FC Magdeburg
  1. FC Magdeburg
  1. FC Magdeburg is a German association football club playing in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:Football has been played in Magdeburg since the end of the 19th century. On 15 June 1896 SV Victoria 96 Magdeburg was founded, a club that had its best days before World War II, when it participated...
  
   wins 2–0 over AC Milan, winning the cup for the first time. This also marks the only instance of an East German club winning a European title.
• Copa Libertadores 1974: Won by Independiente
  Club Atlético Independiente
  Club Atlético Independiente is an Argentine athletic, sports and social club, which has its headquarters and stadium in the city of Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province. The club is best known for its football team, that plays in the Argentine Primera División....
  
   after defeating São Paulo Futebol Clube
  São Paulo Futebol Clube
  São Paulo Futebol Clube , commonly known as São Paulo, is a professional football club based in São Paulo, Brazil. They play in the Campeonato Paulista, São Paulo's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão, Brazil's national league, and are one of the only five clubs to...
  
   on an aggregate score of 1–0.
• May 1 – PSV Eindhoven claims the Dutch Cup
  KNVB Cup
  The KNVB Cup is a competition in the Netherlands organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association since 1899. It was based on the format of the English FA Cup. Outside of the Netherlands, it is often referred to as the Dutch Cup...
  
   by defeating title holders NAC Breda
  NAC Breda
  NAC Breda , simply often known as NAC, is a Dutch professional football club, based in Breda, Netherlands. NAC Breda play in the Rat Verlegh Stadium, named after their most important player, Antoon 'Rat' Verlegh. They play in the Dutch Eredivisie and are known by the fierce and fanatic support of...
  
  : 6–0.
• September 18 – Dutch club FC Amsterdam
  FC Amsterdam
  FC Amsterdam was a Dutch football club which was founded on June 20, 1972, from the merger of the Amsterdam football clubs Blauw Wit and DWS. The club Volewijckers joined the side for the 1973-1974 season...
  
   makes its Europe
  Europe
  Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
  
  an debut by defeating Malta's Hibernians F.C.
  Hibernians F.C.
  Hibernians F.C. is a Maltese football club hailing from the town of Paola, Malta. It is one of the top football teams in Malta. The club was founded in 1922, but football in Paola, Raħal Ġdid in Maltese, dates back to 1894. The team has a long successful story in its history. Hibernians has always...
  
   5–0 in the first round of the UEFA Cup
  UEFA Cup
  The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...
  
  , with two goals from Nico Jansen.

Europe

• • Eredivisie
    Eredivisie
    The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....
    
     – Feyenoord
    Feyenoord Rotterdam
    Feyenoord is a Dutch professional football club located in Rotterdam. Along with Ajax and PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord is one of the "big three" clubs in the Netherlands. These three clubs and Utrecht and Roda JC are the only clubs never to have been relegated from the Dutch first division...
    
    
  • Eerste Divisie
    Eerste Divisie
    The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
    
     – Excelsior
    Excelsior Rotterdam
    SBV Excelsior is a professional football club from the Kralingen-Crooswijk district of Rotterdam, Netherlands. It was founded on July 23, 1902 and was formerly known as 'Rotterdamse Voetbal en Atletiek Vereniging Excelsior'...
    
     Poland
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
    
    : Ruch Chorzów
    Ruch Chorzów
    Ruch Chorzów is a Polish association football club based in Chorzów, Upper Silesia. It is one of the most successful football teams in Poland: 14 time national champion, and 3 time winner of the Polish Cup. Currently the team plays in the top Polish league, the Ekstraklasa. Their stadium capacity...
    
     Turkey
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
    
    : Fenerbahçe West Germany
    West Germany
    West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
    
    : Bayern Munich Yugoslavia
    Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
    The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...
    
    : Hajduk Split
    HNK Hajduk Split
    HNK Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian football club founded in 1911 and based in the city of Split. The club's home ground since 1979 is the 35,000-seater Poljud Stadium and the team's traditional home colours are white shirts with blue shorts and...
    
    

South America

• • Metropolitano – Newell's Old Boys
    Newell's Old Boys
    Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is an Argentine sports club based in Rosario. The club was founded on November 3, 1903, and is named after Isaac Newell, one of the pioneers of Argentine football...
    
    
  • Nacional – San Lorenzo
    Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro
    Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro is an Argentine sports club based in Boedo neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, mostly known because of its football team....
    
     Brazil
    Brazil
    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
    
     – Vasco da Gama
    Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama
    Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama |Rowing Club]]), usually known as Vasco da Gama or simply Vasco, is a famous and traditional Brazilian multisports club from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, founded on August 21, 1898...
    
    

International tournaments

• African Cup of Nations
  1974 African Cup of Nations
  The 1974 African Cup of Nations was the ninth edition of the African Cup of Nations, the soccer championship of Africa . It was hosted by Egypt....
  
   in Egypt
  Egypt
  Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
  
   (March 1 – 14 1974)

• 1974 British Home Championship
  1974 British Home Championship
  The 1974 British Home Championship Home Nations football tournament was, like the two championships which preceded it, subject to rescheduled matches due to The Troubles in Northern Ireland...
  
   (May 11 – May 18, 1974)

Shared by and

• FIFA World Cup
  1974 FIFA World Cup
  The 1974 FIFA World Cup, the tenth staging of the World Cup, was held in West Germany 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...
  
   in West Germany
  West Germany
  West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
  
   (June 13 – July 7, 1974)

Births

• January 10 – Bob Peeters
  Bob Peeters
  Bob Peeters is a former football striker and current manager of Cercle Brugge, notorious for his height . Born in Belgium, he started his professional career for Lierse S.K. in the 1992-1993 season. After five years he moved to Dutch club Roda JC, who sold him in 2000 to Vitesse Arnhem. After...
  
  , Belgian footballer
• January 11 – Jens Nowotny, German footballer
• January 22 – Jörg Böhme
  Jörg Böhme
  Jörg Böhme is a German former footballer who works as assistant coach of Arminia Bielefeld.-Career:As a professional he has played for FC Carl Zeiss Jena, 1. FC Nuremberg, Eintracht Frankfurt, 1860 München, Arminia Bielefeld, FC Schalke 04 and Borussia Mönchengladbach...
  
  , German footballer
• January 31 – Bob Mulder
  Bob Mulder
  Bob Mulder is a retired professional footballer from the Netherlands, who played for clubs like FC Groningen, MVV Maastricht, Heracles Almelo and BV Veendam.-External links:...
  
  , Dutch footballer
• March 5 – Jens Jeremies, German footballer
• March 9 – Franz Calustro
  Franz Calustro
  Álvaro Franz Calustro Cárdenas is a retired Bolivian football midfielder.Calustro obtained a total number of nine caps for the Bolivia national football team during his career. He was a member of the national squad competing at the 2001 Copa América.-References:*...
  
  , Bolivian footballer
• March 14 – Mark Fish
  Mark Fish
  Mark Anthony Fish is a retired South African footballer.-Club career:Fish started his career in his native South Africa under the guidance of renowned coach Steve Coetsee, playing for Arcadia Shepherds, an amateur team based at the Caledonian Stadium in Pretoria...
  
  , South-African footballer
• March 30 – Tomislav Butina
  Tomislav Butina
  Tomislav Butina is a former Croatian footballer who played as goalkeeper for top level clubs Dinamo Zagreb, Club Brugge and Olympiacos. He was also capped 28 times for the Croatia national football team in the period from 2001 to 2006 and was member of Croatian squads at the 2002 and 2006 FIFA...
  
  , Croatian footballer
• April 6 – Robert Kovač
  Robert Kovac
  Robert Kovač is a retired Croatian football defender.- Early career :Kovač started his career in lower league clubs Rapide Wedding and Hertha Zehlendorf before making his Bundesliga debut with 1. FC Nuremberg in 1995...
  
  , Croatian footballer
• May 28 – Hans-Jörg Butt
  Hans-Jörg Butt
  Hans-Jörg Butt is a German footballer who plays for FC Bayern Munich in the German League, as a goalkeeper.Known for taking penalty kicks, he netted nearly 30 goals in Germany's top flight...
  
  , German footballer
• June 26 – Pablo Galdames, Chilean footballer
• August 29 – Denis Caniza, Paraguayan footballer
• September 5 – Ivo Ulich
  Ivo Ulich
  - Career :Ulich, a midfielder, has played for Slavia Prague, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Vissel Kobe and Dynamo Dresden. He retired from football in 2008, but has stayed with Dynamo Dresden as a scout.Ulich spent most of his Gambrinus liga career at Slavia Prague...
  
  , Czech footballer
• September 16 – Fricson George
  Fricson George
  Fricson George is an Ecuadorian football defender. He currently plays for Club Deportivo El Nacional in Ecuador.George played for a number of Ecuadorian teams including Filanbanco, Delfin and Barcelona SC. He also played for Brazilian giants Santos. He made his debut for the national team in...
  
  , Ecuadorian footballer
• October 5 – Jeff Strasser
  Jeff Strasser
  Jeff Strasser is a Luxembourgian footballer, who currently manages CS Fola Esch. - Club career :As one of the rare successful professional footballers from Luxembourg, Strasser has made a fairly successful career in French and German first divisions...
  
  , Luxembourgish footballer
• November 16 – Paul Scholes
  Paul Scholes
  Paul Scholes is a retired English footballer, a one-club man who played his entire professional career for Manchester United.Born in Salford, but later moving to Langley, Scholes excelled in both cricket and football in school. He first trained with Manchester United at the age of 14 after being...
  
  , English footballer
• December 3 – Damiën Hertog
  Damiën Hertog
  Damiën Hertog is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for Excelsior Rotterdam. His former clubs are RBC Roosendaal and De Graafschap-References:*...
  
  , Dutch footballer
• December 12 – Franklin Anangonó
  Franklin Anangonó
  Franklin Anangonó is a retired Ecuadorian football defender. He obtained a total number of seven international caps for the Ecuador national football team in 1999.-References:*...
  
  , Ecuadorian footballer
• December 24 – Marcelo Salas
  Marcelo Salas
  José Marcelo Salas Melinao , better known as El Matador, Shileno or simply Marcelo Salas, is a former football player from Chile. He, along with world cup veterans, 3 time Best Player of America Elías Figueroa and former Real Madrid and Inter Milan forward Iván Zamorano, has been one of Chile's...
  
  , Chilean footballer

Deaths

• July 1 – Kick Smit
  Kick Smit
  Johannes Chrishostomos "Kick" Smit was a Dutch football player. He earned 29 caps and scored 26 goals for the Netherlands national football team, and played in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups. During his club career, he played for HFC Haarlem.-References:...
  
  (62), Dutch footballer