# 1973–74 AC Milan season

During the 1973–1974 season Milan Associazione Calcio competed in Serie A, Coppa Italia, Cup Winners' Cup and European Super Cup.

## Summary

The technical director Nereo Rocco was confirmed as technical director of the team at the beginning of the 1973–1974 season, with Cesare Maldini and Giovanni Trapattoni alternating each other as managers. As for the squad, among others, Pierino Prati, Silvano Villa and Roberto Rosato left, while Ottavio Bianchi and Franco Bergamaschi were the main signings.
In the league, Milan remained steadily in the middle-upper area of the table and closed the first half of the season in fifth position, with 18 points. During the second half of the season, Cesare Maldini, who had already joined Rocco on the bench in December starting from the ninth round (December 16, 1973), became the team's sole technical manager and held this role until at the beginning of April when Giovanni Trapattoni took over. This was the first experience as manager for Trapattoni, who retired from football just two seasons earlier. Milan went through a series of negative results (including five defeats in a row) which condemned them to the 7th place in the final standings, totaling 30 points, with 11 wins, 8 draws and 11 defeats.
In January, the Rossoneri, holders of the Cup Winners' Cup, faced the reigning European Cup champions Ajax on the first edition of the UEFA Super Cup. After a 1–0 win in the first leg at San Siro, with a goal of Luciano Chiarugi, Milan were beaten 6–0 in Amsterdam by the Dutch team, which thus won the trophy. In the Coppa Italia Milan, as holder of the trophy, started from the second round, where they were eliminated in a group that included Bologna, Inter and Atalanta, after finishing in third place with five points, as a result of two wins (with Atalanta), a draw (with Bologna) and three defeats.
In the Cup Winners' Cup Milan qualified for the final after eliminating the Yugoslavs of Dinamo Zagreb in the round of 32 (3–1 victory in the first leg in Milan and 1–0 in the second leg in Zagreb), in the round of 16 the Austrians of Rapid Vienna (0–0 at San Siro and 2–0 away victory), in the quarter-finals the Greeks of PAOK (3–0 at home and 2–2 in Thessaloniki) and in the semi-finals the West Germans of Borussia Mönchengladbach (2–0 home win and 1–0 away defeat).[9] In the final, played in Rotterdam on 8 May 1974, Milan, with Trapattoni on the bench, faced the East Germans of Magdeburg, which won the match 2–0 thanks to a own goal by Enrico Lanzi in the first half and goal by Wolfgang Seguin in the second.

## Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | ITA | Giuseppe Cafaro |
| — | GK | ITA | Pier Luigi Pizzaballa |
| — | GK | ITA | Villiam Vecchi |
| — | DF | ITA | Enrico Lanzi |
| — | DF | ITA | Angelo Anquilletti |
| — | DF | ITA | Giulio Zignoli |
| — | DF | ITA | Dario Dolci |
| — | DF | ITA | Franco Fasoli |
| — | DF | ITA | Maurizio Turone |
| — | DF | ITA | Giuseppe Sabadini |
| — | DF | GER | Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (vice-captain) |
| — | DF | ITA | Aldo Maldera |
| — | MF | ITA | Romeo Benetti |
| — | MF | ITA | Giorgio Biasiolo |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | ITA | Franco Bergamaschi |
| — | MF | ITA | Gianni Rivera (Captain) |
| — | MF | ITA | Riccardo Sogliano |
| — | MF | ITA | Ottavio Bianchi |
| — | MF | ITA | Walter De Vecchi |
| — | MF | ITA | Ilario Frank |
| — | FW | ITA | Luciano Chiarugi |
| — | FW | ITA | Lino Golin |
| — | FW | ITA | Alberto Bigon |
| — | FW | ITA | Emilio Rossi |
| — | FW | ITA | Alessandro Turini |
| — | FW | ITA | Carlo Tresoldi |
| — | FW | ITA | Francesco Vincenzi |
| — | FW | ITA | Graziano Gori |

## Transfers

In :
| Pos. | Name | from | Type |
| GK | Giuseppe Cafaro | Platense | |
| GK | Pier Luigi Pizzaballa | Verona | |
| DF | Enrico Lanzi | Cesena | loan end |
| DF | Aldo Maldera | Bologna | loan end |
| MF | Franco Bergamaschi | Verona | |
| MF | Ottavio Bianchi | Atalanta | |
| MF | Ilario Frank | Lecco | |
| MF | Vincenzo Zazzaro | Lecco | loan end |
| FW | Alessandro Turini | Como | |
| FW | Silvano Villa | Sampdoria | loan end |
Out :
| Pos. | Name | To | Type |
| GK | Pierangelo Belli | Verona | |
| DF | Roberto Rosato | Genoa | |
| MF | Roberto Casone | Como | loan |
| MF | Guido Magherini | Arezzo | |
| MF | Vincenzo Zazzaro | Reggina | loan |
| MF | Ilario Frank | Juve Stabia | |
| FW | Lino Golin | Foggia | |
| FW | Pierino Prati | Roma | |
| FW | Silvano Villa | Foggia | loan |
| FW | Graziano Gori | Spezia | |

## Competitions
### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 5 | Torino | 30 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 27 | 24 | +3 | 34 | Qualification to UEFA Cup |
| 6 | Fiorentina | 30 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 32 | 26 | +6 | 33 | |
| 7 | Milan | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 34 | 36 | −2 | 30 | |
| 8 | Roma | 30 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 29 | 28 | +1 | 29 | |
| 9 | Bologna | 30 | 6 | 17 | 7 | 35 | 36 | −1 | 29 | Qualification to Cup Winners' Cup |

#### Matches
### UEFA Super Cup
## Statistics
### Squad statistics

| Competition | Points | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | GD |
| Competition | Points | G | W | D | L | Gs | Ga | G | W | D | L | Gs | Ga | G | W | D | L | Gs | Ga | GD |
| 1973-74 Serie A | 30 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 15 | 21 | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 34 | 36 | −2 |
| 1973-74 Coppa Italia | – | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 1973–74 Cup Winners' Cup | – | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 6 | +7 |
| 1973 European Super Cup | – | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | −5 |
| Total | – | 23 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 31 | 19 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 25 | 35 | 47 | 19 | 11 | 17 | 56 | 56 | 0 |

### Players statistics

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Serie A | Serie A | Coppa Italia | Coppa Italia | Cup Winners' Cup | Cup Winners' Cup | European Super Cup | European Super Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| | DF | ITA | Angelo Anquilletti | 70 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | DF | ITA | Dario Dolci | 14 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | GK | ITA | Giuseppe Cafaro | 1 | -2 | 0 | -0 | 1 | -2 | 0 | -0 | 0 | -0 |
| | DF | ITA | Giuseppe Sabadini | 40 | 4 | 26 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | GK | ITA | Pier Luigi Pizzaballa | 16 | -19 | 10 | -13 | 3 | -3 | 3 | -3 | 0 | -0 |
| | MF | ITA | Giorgio Biasiolo | 35 | 2 | 26 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | MF | ITA | Franco Bergamaschi | 30 | 2 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | MF | ITA | Ottavio Bianchi | 24 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | ITA | Walter De Vecchi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | ITA | Alberto Bigon | 33 | 10 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | ITA | Graziano Gori | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | DF | ITA | Romeo Benetti | 42 | 7 | 26 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| | DF | ITA | Franco Fasoli | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | DF | ITA | Giulio Zignoli | 22 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | DF | ITA | Enrico Lanzi | 12 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | ITA | Gianni Rivera | 39 | 7 | 26 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | DF | ITA | Maurizio Turone | 25 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | FW | ITA | Luciano Chiarugi | 42 | 17 | 28 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| | DF | GER | Karl-Heinz Schnellinger | 25 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | MF | ITA | Riccardo Sogliano | 14 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | DF | ITA | Aldo Maldera | 29 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | FW | ITA | Emilio Rossi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | ITA | Alessandro Turini | 15 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | ITA | Francesco Vincenzi | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | ITA | Carlo Tresoldi | 18 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| | GK | ITA | Villiam Vecchi | 30 | -35 | 20 | -23 | 2 | -3 | 6 | -3 | 2 | -6 |
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