1974 FIFA World Cup final

The **1974 FIFA World Cup final** was the final match of the 1974 FIFA World Cup. The match was played with the teams West Germany and the Netherlands. The West Germans won the match 2–1, winning their second world cup title.

## Road to the final

|colspan=2 style="width:1*"|Netherlands|Round|colspan=2 style="width:1*"|West Germany|||||||||||
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|Opponent|Result||First round|Opponent|Result||||||||||
||2–0|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Match 1||1–0||||||||||
||0–0|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Match 2||3–0||||||||||
||4–1|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Match 3||0–1||||||||||
|colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"||||||||||||||
|align=left|****|3|2|1|0|6|1|+5|**5**||||||
|align=left||3|1|2|0|3|0|+3|**4**||||||
|align=left||3|0|2|1|2|5|-3|**2**||||||
|align=left||3|0|1|2|1|6|−5|**1**|}|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Final standing|colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"|
|align=left||3|2|1|0|4|1|+3|**5**||||||
|align=left|****|3|2|0|1|4|1|+3|**4**||||||
|align=left||3|0|2|1|1|2|−1|**2**||||||
|align=left||3|0|1|2|0|5|−6|**1**|}|||||
|Opponent|Result||Second round|Opponent|Result||||||||||
||4–0|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Match 1||2–0||||||||||
||2–0|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Match 2||4–2||||||||||
||2–0|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Match 3||1–0||||||||||
|colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"||||||||||||||
|align=left|****|3|3|0|0|8|0|+8|**6**||||||
|align=left||3|2|0|1|3|3|0|**4**||||||
|align=left||3|0|1|2|1|4|−3|**1**||||||
|align=left||3|0|1|2|2|7|−5|**1**|}|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Final standing|colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"|
|align=left|****|3|3|0|0|7|2|+5|**6**||||||
|align=left||3|2|0|1|3|2|+1|**4**||||||
|align=left||3|1|0|2|4|6|−2|**2**||||||
|align=left||3|0|0|3|2|6|−4|**0**|}|||||

### Details

<section begin=Final /><section end=Final />
<section begin=Lineups />

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|valign="top" width="40%"|{| style="font-size:90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"||||||
|GK|**8**|Jan Jongbloed|||||
|RB|**20**|Wim Suurbier|||||
|CB|**17**|Wim Rijsbergen|||||
|CB|**2**|Arie Haan|||||
|LB|**12**|Ruud Krol|||||
|DM|**6**|Wim Jansen|||||
|CM|**13**|Johan Neeskens|||||
|CM|**3**|Willem van Hanegem|||||
|RW|**16**|Johnny Rep|||||
|LW|**15**|Rob Rensenbrink|||||
|CF|**14**|Johan Cruyff (c)|||||
|colspan=3|**Substitutes:**||||||
|GK|**18**|Piet Schrijvers|||||
|DF|**5**|Rinus Israël|||||
|MF|**7**|Theo de Jong|||||
|MF|**10**|René van de Kerkhof|||||
|FW|**9**|Piet Keizer|||||
|colspan=3|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan=3|Rinus Michels|}|valign="top"||valign="top" width="50%"|{| style="font-size:90%; margin:auto" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"|
|GK|**1**|Sepp Maier|||||
|RB|**2**|Berti Vogts|||||
|CB|**5**|Franz Beckenbauer (c)|||||
|CB|**4**|Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck|||||
|LB|**3**|Paul Breitner|||||
|CM|**16**|Rainer Bonhof|||||
|CM|**12**|Wolfgang Overath|||||
|AM|**14**|Uli Hoeneß|||||
|RW|**9**|Jürgen Grabowski|||||
|LW|**17**|Bernd Hölzenbein|||||
|CF|**13**|Gerd Müller|||||
|colspan=3|**Substitutes:**||||||
|GK|**21**|Norbert Nigbur|||||
|DF|**6**|Horst-Dieter Höttges|||||
|MF|**8**|Bernhard Cullmann|||||
|MF|**15**|Heinz Flohe|||||
|FW|**11**|Jupp Heynckes|||||
|colspan=3|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan=3|Helmut Schön|}|||||

## Related pages

- FIFA World Cup

## Infobox (football match)

- **title**: 1974 FIFA World Cup final
- **event**: 1974 FIFA World Cup
- **image**:
- **caption**: Johan Neeskens scores the opening goal of the Final
- **team1**: Netherlands national football team, Netherlands
- **team1score**: 1
- **team2**: Germany national football team, West Germany
- **team2score**: 2
- **date**: 7 July 1974
- **stadium**: Olympic Stadium (Munich), Olympiastadion
- **city**: Munich
- **man of the match1a**: Gerd Müller
- **referee**: Jack Taylor (referee), Jack Taylor (The Football Association, England)
- **attendance**: 75,200