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.

Poland ratings in the 1974 World Cup

Ratings: El Gráfico (Argentina).

7,00 Grzegorz Lato
6,71 Jan Tomaszewski, Kazimierz Deyna
6,57 Antoni Szymanowski, Robert Gadocha
6,29 Jerzy Gorgoń
6,17 Andrzej Szarmach
6,14 Władysław Żmuda
5,86 Henryk Kasperczak
5,67 Adam Musiał, Jan Domarski
5,43 Zygmunt Maszczyk
5,33 Lesław Ćmikiewicz

Top scorers in Olympic tournaments 1908-2008.

2008
4: Giuseppe Rossi (Italy)
3: Moussa Dembélé (Belgium), Victor Nsofor Obinna (Nigeria)


2004
8: Carlos Tévez (Argentina)
5: José Cardozo (Paraguay)
4: Alberto Gilardino (Italy), Tenema N'Diaye (Mali), Fredy Bareiro (Paraguay)


2000
6: Iván Zamorano (Chile)
4: Patrick Mboma (Cameroon), Reinaldo Navia (Chile), David Suazo (Honduras)


1996
6: Hernán Crespo (Argentina), Bebeto (Brazil)
5: Ronaldo (Brazil)

1992
7: Andrzej Juskowiak (Poland)
6: Kwame Ayew (Ghana)
5: Kiko (Spain)


1988
7: Romário (Brazil)
6: Igor Dobrovolski (Soviet Union), Kalusha Bwalya (Zambia)


1984
5: Daniel Xuereb (France), Borislav Cvetković & Stjepan Deverić (Yugoslavia)
4: Gilmar Popoca (Brazil)


1980
4: Sergey Andreyev (Soviet Union)
3: Ladislav Vízek (Czechoslovakia), Wolf-Rüdiger Netz (East Germany), Fyodor Cherenkov (Soviet Union)

1976
6: Andrzej Szarmach (Poland)
4: Hans-Jürgen Dörner (East Germany)
3: Grzegorz Lato (Poland), Vladimir Onišenko (Soviet Union), Michel Platini (France), Víctor Rangel (Mexico)

1972
9: Kazimierz Deyna (-photo-, Poland)
7: Antal Dunai (Hungary)
6: Oleh Blochin (Soviet Union), Robert Gadocha (Poland), Bernd Nickel (West Germany), Joachim Streich (East Germany)


1968
7: Kunishige Kamamoto (Japan)
6: Antal Dunai (Hungary)
4: Jehoshua Faygenbaum (Israel), Ladislav Petráš (Czechoslovakia), Lajos Szűcs (Hungary), Petar Žekov (Bulgaria)

1964
12: Ferenc Bene (Hungary)
8: Ibrahim Riad (Egypt)
6: Tibor Csernai (Hungary), Cornel Pavlovici (Romania)

1960
7: Milan Galić (Yugoslavia)
6: Borivoje Kostić (Yugoslavia), Harald Nielsen (Denmark)

1956
4: Neville Stephen D'Souza (India), Dimităr Milanov (Bulgaria), Todor Veselinović (Yugoslavia)
3: Ivan Kolev (Bulgaria), John Laybourne (Great Britain), Muhamed Mujić & Zlatko Papec (Yugoslavia)


1952
7: Branko Zebec (Yugoslavia)
6: Sándor Kocsis (Hungary), Rajko Mitić (Yugoslavia)

1948
7: Gunnar Nordahl (-photo-, Sweden), John Hansen (Denmark)
5: Henry "Garvis" Carlsson & Kjell Rosén (Sweden), Francesco Pernigo (Italy)

1936
7: Annibale Frossi (Italy)
6: Teodoro "Lolo" Fernández (Peru)
5: Arne Brustad (Norway), Gerard Wodarz (Poland)

1928
11: Domingo Tarasconi (Argentina)
6: Adolfo Baloncieri (Italy), Manuel Ferreira (Argentina)


1924
7: Pedro Petrone (Uruguay)
6: Max Abegglen (Switzerland), Sven Rydell (Sweden)


1920
7: Herbert Karlsson (Sweden)
6: Antonín Janda (Czechoslovakia)
5: Bernardus Groosjohan (Holland)


1912
11: Harold Walden (Great Britain)
10: Gottfried Fuchs (Germany)
8: Jan Vos (Holland)


1908
11: Sophus "Krølben" Nielsen (Denmark)
8: Vilhelm Wolfhagen (Denmark)
6: Harold Stapley (Great Britain)



Topscorers per nation:
5: Yugoslavia
3: Argentina & Poland
2: Brazil, Sweden, Italy & Denmark
1: Chile, France, Soviet Union, Japan, Hungary, India, Bulgaria, Uruguay & Great Britain.