European topscorers in the 1974 World Cup

Qualifiers included.

  10 goals: 

Johan Cruyff (Holland)

  9 goals: 

Johan Neeskens (Holland), Joachim Streich (East Germany)

  8 goals: 

Grzegorz Lato (Poland), Hristo Bonev (Bulgaria)

  7 goals: 

Ralf Edström (Sweden), Gigi Riva (Italy)

  6 goals: 

Roland Sandberg (Sweden), Dušan Bajević (Yugoslavia)

  5 goals: 

Willy Brokamp (Holland), Andrzej Szarmach (Poland), Jürgen Sparwasser (East Germany), Raoul Lambert (Belgium), Florea Dumitrache (Romania)

  4 goals: 

Gerd Müller (West Germany), Johnny Rep (Holland), Stanislav Karasi (Yugoslavia)

  3 goals:

 Paul Breitner (West Germany), Bo Larsson (Sweden), Ivica Šurjak (Yugoslavia), Gianni Rivera (Italy), Georgi Denev (Bulgaria), Joe Jordan (Scotland), Ferenc Bene (Hungary), Josef Hickersberger & Kurt Jara (Austria), Zdenek Nehoda & Bohumil Veselý (Czechoslovakia)

  2 goals: 

Wolfgang Overath (West Germany), Theo de Jong & Wim van Hanegem (Holland), Robert Gadocha & Jan Domarski (Poland), Josip Katalinski (Yugoslavia), Fabio Capello & Pietro Anastasi (Italy), Hans-Jürgen Kreische, Wolfram Löwe & Bernd Bransch (East Germany), Peter Lorimer (Scotland), Bozhil Kolev (Bulgaria), Odilon Polleunis & Léon Dolmans (Belgium), Nené & Rui Jordão (Portugal), Volodymyr Onyshchenko (USSR), Lajos Kocsis & Sándor Zámbó (Hungary), August Starek (Austria), Osman Arpacıoğlu (Turkey), Ion Dumitru & Mircea Sandu (Romania), Rubén Óscar Valdez & Enrique Claramunt (Spain), Trevor Anderson (Northern Ireland), Terry Conroy (Ireland), Harry Hestad (Norway).

NB: No English player scored more than one goal.