Johan Cruyff, in the Netherlands spelled as 'Johan Cruijff', is widely seen as the best Dutch player of all-time. In terms of reputation, only Puck Van Heel, Abe Lenstra, Faas Wilkes, Willem van Hanegem and Marco Van Basten had been able to match his popularity during their professional career. Nevertheless, Cruyff knocked Wilkes of his perch as most celebrated footballer and it remains to be seen if any Dutch player can ever match his status. During his career he played 709 official matches and scored exactly 400 goals. Originally schooled as a winger and out-and-out striker in a 4-2-4 system, he became at the end of the 1960s one of the archetypical false-nines. 10 goals of these 400 in total are penalty-kicks. It is estimated that he made around 40 goals with his head. The number of goals scored out of a free kick is negligible (estimitated as not much higher than five).
1964/1965 - AFC Ajax (4 goals in 10 matches) 1. 15/11/1964 --- GVAV - Ajax 3:1 [1] 2. 22/11/1964 --- Ajax - PSV 5:0 [1] 3. 29/11/1964 --- Feyenoord - Ajax 9:4 4. 20/12/1964 --- SC Enschede - Ajax 0:4 5. 10/01/1965 --- Ajax - ADO 5:1 6. 24/01/1965 --- Ajax - MVV 9:3 [2] 7. 07/03/1965 --- Ajax - Sittardia 1:0 8. 21/03/1965 --- Telstar - Ajax 0:0 9. 28/03/1965 --- Ajax - DOS 0:0 10. 04/04/1965 --- Ajax - GVAV 1:1 Goals made against top five sides: 1 (in 3 matches) League position Ajax: 13th (out of 16), 26 points, 52 goals for, 51 goals against. Club topscorers Ajax (league): Klaas Nuninga (15/29); Sjaak Swart (11/29); Siem Tijm (7/19); Peet Petersen (6/25)
1965/1966 - AFC Ajax (25 goals in 23 matches) 11. 19/09/1965 --- Ajax - De Volewijckers 5:0 [2] [Dutch Cup, preliminary] 12. 21/10/1965 --- DWS - Ajax 0:2 [2] 13. 31/10/1965 --- Ajax - Fortuna54 5:1 [2] 14. 07/11/1965 --- ZFC - Ajax 0:3 [1] [Dutch Cup, preliminary] 15. 28/11/1965 --- ADO - Ajax 2:3 16. 26/12/1965 --- Ajax - FC Twente 3:1 [1] 17. 02/01/1966 --- Ajax - FC Zaanstreek 3:1 [2] [Dutch Cup, preliminary] 18. 09/01/1966 --- Feyenoord - Ajax 1:1 [1] 19. 30/01/1966 --- Ajax - Elinkwijk 7:0 20. 06/02/1966 --- DOS - Ajax 1:2 21. 06/03/1966 --- PSV - Ajax 0:2 [1] 22. 13/03/1966 --- Ajax - Telstar 6:2 [3] 23. 17/03/1966 --- Ajax - Veendam 7:0 [4] [Dutch Cup, 4th round] 24. 20/03/1966 --- Go Ahead - Ajax 1:2 [1] 25. 27/03/1966 --- Ajax - Heracles 1:0 26. 03/04/1966 --- Sparta - Ajax 1:3 27. 09/04/1966 --- Ajax - DWS 2:1 28. 11/04/1966 --- Fortuna54 - Ajax 2:1 29. 24/04/1966 --- Ajax - ADO 5:1 [2] 30. 01/05/1966 --- GVAV - Ajax 0:2 31. 08/05/1966 --- Ajax - Willem II 3:1 [1] 32. 15/05/1966 --- FC Twente - Ajax 0:2 [1] 33. 18/05/1966 --- Ajax - Feyenoord 2:0 [1] Goals made against top five sides: 7 (in 7 matches) League position Ajax: 1st (out of 16), 52 points, 79 goals for, 25 goals against. Club topscorers Ajax (league): Johan Cruijff (16/19), Klaas Nuninga (15/27), Piet Keizer (13/28), Sjaak Swart (11/30), Henk Groot (8/15), Co Prins (7/30)
1966/1967 - AFC Ajax (42 goals in 43 matches) 34. 14/08/1966 --- Elinkwijk - Ajax 0:7 [3] 35. 21/08/1966 --- Ajax - NAC 4:1 [1] 36. 04/09/1966 --- Ajax - DWS 5:0 [1] 37. 07/09/1966 --- Netherlands - Hungary 2:2 [1] [Euro-qualifiers] 38. 11/09/1966 --- MVV - Ajax 2:4 [1] 39. 25/09/1966 --- Ajax - Sparta 5:0 [1] 40. 28/09/1966 --- Ajax - Besiktas (TUR) 2:0 [EC-1, 1st round] 41. 02/10/1966 --- Sittardia - Ajax 1:1 [1] 42. 05/10/1966 --- Besiktas (TUR) - Ajax 1:2 [EC-1, 1st round] 43. 09/10/1966 --- Ajax - PSV 3:1 [1] 44. 16/10/1966 --- Willem II - Ajax 0:4 [1] 45. 30/10/1966 --- Go Ahead - Ajax 2:3 [2] 46. 06/11/1966 --- Netherlands - Czechoslovakia 1:2 [Friendly] 47. 13/11/1966 --- Ajax - Feyenoord 5:0 [2] 48. 20/11/1966 --- Ajax - Telstar 4:2 [1] 49. 27/11/1966 --- GVAV - Ajax 3:8 [2] 50. 07/12/1966 --- Ajax - Liverpool (ENG) 5:1 [1] [EC-1, 2nd round] 51. 14/12/1966 --- Liverpool (ENG) - Ajax 2:2 [2] [EC-1, 2nd round] 52. 18/12/1966 --- Ajax - Xerxes 4:1 [1] 53. 26/12/1966 --- Ajax - Elinkwijk 8:0 [2] 54. 08/01/1967 --- NAC - Ajax 0:1 55. 15/01/1967 --- Ajax - FC Twente 6:1 [2] 56. 22/01/1967 --- DWS - Ajax 1:1 [1] 57. 29/01/1967 --- Ajax - MVV 8:3 [4] 58. 04/02/1967 --- Ajax - Fortuna54 1:0 59. 12/02/1967 --- Sparta - Ajax 2:1 [1] 60. 19/02/1967 --- Ajax - Sittardia 6:0 61. 26/02/1967 --- PSV - Ajax 2:1 62. 01/03/1967 --- Ajax - Dukla Prague (TCH) 1:1 [EC-1, quarter-final] 63. 08/03/1967 --- Dukla Prague (TCH) - Ajax 2:1 [EC-1, quarter-final] 64. 12/03/1967 --- DOS - Ajax 0:4 65. 19/03/1967 --- Ajax - Go Ahead 4:1 [1] 66. 27/03/1967 --- Feyenoord - Ajax 1:1 67. 02/04/1967 --- Ajax - Feyenoord 3:1 [Dutch Cup, 1st round] 68. 09/04/1967 --- Telstar - Ajax 0:3 69. 18/04/1967 --- Ajax - Willem II 4:0 70. 23/04/1967 --- Ajax - GVAV 0:1 71. 30/04/1967 --- Fortuna54 - Ajax 2:3 [2] 72. 07/05/1967 --- Ajax - DWS 7:1 [2] [Dutch Cup, 2nd round] 73. 15/05/1967 --- Ajax - ADO 5:3 [2] 74. 18/05/1967 --- DFC - Ajax 0:1 [1] [Dutch Cup, qf] 75. 28/05/1967 --- Go Ahead - Ajax 1:2 (a.e.t.) [1] [Dutch Cup, sf] 76. 07/06/1967 --- Ajax - NAC 2:1 (a.e.t.) [1] [Dutch Cup, final] Goals made against top five sides: 10 (in 8 matches) League position Ajax: 1st (out of 18), 56 points, 122 goals for, 34 goals against. Club topscorers Ajax: Johan Cruijff (33/30), Sjaak Swart (24/34), Klaas Nuninga (23/34), Henk Groot (16/25), Piet Keizer (11/28), Ben Muller (7/34)
1967/1968 - AFC Ajax (33 goals scored in 44 matches) 77. 13/08/1967 --- Ajax - Go Ahead 2:0 [1] 78. 20/08/1967 --- Telstar - Ajax 0:3 [2] 79. 27/08/1967 --- Ajax - DOS 4:0 80. 03/09/1967 --- Feyenoord - Ajax 1:0 81. 10/09/1967 --- Ajax - Volendam 7:1 [2] 82. 13/09/1967 --- Netherlands - East-Germany 1:0 [1] [Euro-qualifiers] 83. 20/09/1967 --- Ajax - Real Madrid (ESP) 1:1 [1] [EC-1, 1st round] 84. 24/09/1967 --- Ajax - Sittardia 4:0 [1] 85. 01/10/1967 --- MVV - Ajax 0:4 [2] 86. 04/10/1967 --- Denmark - Netherlands 3:2 [Euro-qualifiers] 87. 11/10/1967 --- Real Madrid (ESP) - Ajax 2:1 (a.e.t.) [EC-1, 1st round] 88. 15/10/1967 --- PSV - Ajax 1:2 89. 19/10/1967 --- DWS - Ajax 1:4 [2] 90. 22/10/1967 --- Ajax - Xerxes/DHC 5:0 [2] 91. 29/10/1967 --- Sparta - Ajax 1:0 92. 01/11/1967 --- Netherlands - Yugoslavia 1:2 [Friendly] 93. 05/11/1967 --- Ajax - NEC 9:1 [2] 94. 08/11/1967 --- Ajax - FC Twente 2:1 95. 12/11/1967 --- GVAV - Ajax 1:1 96. 19/11/1967 --- NAC - Ajax 0:1 97. 26/11/1967 --- Ajax - Fortuna54 7:1 [1] 98. 03/12/1967 --- ADO - Ajax 1:0 99. 17/12/1967 --- Go Ahead - Ajax 0:1 [1] 100. 24/12/1967 --- Ajax - Telstar 3:0 [2] 101. 31/12/1967 --- Ajax - De Volewijckers 4:1 [1] [Dutch Cup, prelimin.] 102. 07/01/1968 --- DOS - Ajax 1:1 103. 28/01/1968 --- Volendam - Ajax 1:4 [1] 104. 04/02/1968 --- Ajax - DWS 3:2 [1] 105. 11/02/1968 --- Sittardia - Ajax 1:1 106. 25/02/1968 --- Gooiland - Ajax 1:4 [3] [Dutch Cup, prelimin.] 107. 03/03/1968 --- FC Twente - Ajax 1:1 108. 10/03/1968 --- Ajax - Feyenoord 1:0 109. 17/03/1968 --- Ajax - PSV 4:0 [2] 110. 24/03/1968 --- Ajax - Blauw-Wit 1:0 [Dutch Cup, prelimin.] 111. 31/03/1968 --- Xerxes/DHC - Ajax 0:1 112. 15/04/1968 --- Ajax - Sparta 3:0 113. 21/04/1968 --- NEC - Ajax 0:2 [1] 114. 28/04/1968 --- Ajax - Velox 5:1 [2] [Dutch Cup, round of 16] 115. 01/05/1968 --- Poland - Netherlands 0:0 [Friendly] 116. 05/05/1968 --- Ajax - GVAV 3:1 [1] 117. 12/05/1968 --- Ajax - NAC 3:0 118. 14/05/1968 --- Ajax - Elinkwijk 1:0 [Dutch Cup, qf] 119. 20/05/1968 --- Fortuna54 - Ajax 1:4 [1] 120. 26/05/1968 --- Ajax - ADO 2:1 Goals against top five sides: 2 goals (in 8 matches) League position Ajax: 1st (out of 18), 58 points, 96 goals for, 19 goals against. Club topscorers Ajax: Johan Cruijff (25/33), Henk Groot (15/32), Klaas Nuninga (14/33), Sjaak Swart (12/33), Piet Keizer (9/25), Inge Danielsson (5/4)
1968/1969 - AFC Ajax (34 goals scored in 44 matches) 121. 07/08/1968 --- Ajax - Torino (ITA) 3:1 [Intertoto] 122. 25/08/1968 --- Ajax - NAC 8:1 [3] 123. 01/09/1968 --- Sparta - Ajax 0:1 124. 14/09/1968 --- PEC - Ajax 0:4 [1] [Dutch Cup, 1st round] 125. 18/09/1968 --- Nürnberg (GER) - Ajax 1:1 [1] [EC-1, 1st round] 126. 22/09/1968 --- Ajax - NEC 2:1 127. 25/09/1968 --- DOS - Ajax 1:1 128. 02/10/1968 --- Ajax - Nürnberg (GER) 4:0 [1] [EC-1, 1st round] 129. 06/10/1968 --- Ajax - Volendam 2:0 130. 13/10/1968 --- Holland Sport - Ajax 0:3 [1] 131. 20/10/1968 --- Ajax - Telstar 9:2 [3] 132. 03/11/1968 --- FC Twente - Ajax 5:1 133. 09/11/1968 --- De Volewijckers - Ajax 0:5 [2] [Dutch Cup, 2nd round] 134. 13/11/1968 --- Ajax - Fenerbahçe (TUR) 2:0 [EC-1, 2nd round] 135. 17/11/1968 --- Ajax - Feyenoord 0:1 136. 28/11/1968 --- Fenerbahçe (TUR) - Ajax 0:2 [EC-1, 2nd round] 137. 08/12/1968 --- PSV - Ajax 0:1 138. 11/12/1968 --- DWS - Ajax 2:1 139. 15/12/1968 --- Ajax - AZ67 4:0 [3] 140. 25/12/1968 --- ADO - Ajax 2:5 141. 05/01/1969 --- Ajax - Go Ahead 4:3 [2] 142. 12/01/1969 --- NAC - Ajax 0:2 143. 19/01/1969 --- Ajax - Sparta 2:1 [1] 144. 25/01/1969 --- Fortuna SC - Ajax 0:1 [1] 145. 02/02/1969 --- NEC - Ajax 1:2 [1] 146. 08/02/1969 --- Ajax - DOS 7:0 [1] 147. 12/02/1969 --- Ajax - Benfica (POR) 1:3 [EC-1, quarter-final] 148. 19/02/1969 --- Benfica (POR) - Ajax 1:3 [2] [EC-1, quarter-final] 149. 01/03/1969 --- Ajax - Holland Sport 2:2 [1] 150. 05/03/1969 --- Ajax - Benfica (POR) 3:0 (a.e.t.) [1] [EC-1, quart.-f.] 151. 09/03/1969 --- Ajax - Feyenoord 1:2 [Dutch Cup, 3rd round] 152. 26/03/1969 --- Netherlands - Luxembourg 4:0 [1] [WC-qualifiers] 153. 30/03/1969 --- Volendam - Ajax 0:2 [1] 154. 02/04/1969 --- Ajax - GVAV 6:0 [3] 155. 07/04/1969 --- Telstar - Ajax 1:4 [1] 156. 13/04/1969 --- Ajax - Spartak Trnava (TCH) 3:0 [1] [EC-1, semi] 157. 20/04/1969 --- Feyenoord - Ajax 1:1 158. 24/04/1969 --- Spartak Trnava (TCH) - Ajax 2:0 [EC-1, semi] 159. 11/05/1969 --- Ajax - DWS 3:2 160. 15/05/1969 --- Ajax - PSV 1:2 161. 18/05/1969 --- AZ67 - Ajax 0:3 [2] 162. 22/05/1969 --- Ajax - ADO 1:0 163. 28/05/1969 --- AC Milan (ITA) - Ajax 4:1 [EC-1, final] 164. 01/06/1969 --- GVAV - Ajax 1:2 Goals against top five sides: 2 goals (in 7 matches) League position Ajax: 2nd (out of 18), 54 points, 90 goals for, 34 goals against. Club topscorers Ajax: Johan Cruijff (24/29), Sjaak Swart (13/31), Inge Danielsson (12/20), Klaas Nuninga (10/28), Piet Keizer (9/26), Henk Groot (7/27)
Very good thread Puck! Cruijff was my very first IDOL since I started watching football in early 70. A times I "believed" Cruijff was better than Pele haha ... (later on with more experience and research I realized I was wrong)
Very good thread Puck! Cruijff was my very first IDOL since I started watching football in early 70. A times I "believed" Cruijff was better than Pele haha ... (later on with more experience and research I realized I was wrong)
My 'idol' from that generation of footballers was Eusebio. I was pretty damn fast too (relatively speaking). So my coach said one time: watch Eusebio and how he utilised his speed, and he was right. My initial plan was to find the goalscoring record of Eusebio but I could only find his NT, European Cup and record against Porto and Sporting Lissabon. So I do the info I have at my disposal. Was Pelé better? I have for myself no concluding answer. It is however a fact that a couple of his World Cup wins were either not his primary achievement (outshined by a team-mate) or won under questionable circumstances (for example the very strange FIFA order that the Swedish home crowd should be impartial during the final, and make no noise or yelling). Citing the number of WC wins is only the beginning of the debate, not the end of it, as his fans often believe. Personally I have Di Stefano at number one but this is not settled too because the questionable circumstances surrounding Real Madrid at that time are all too familiar. There are a couple of things I don't like about Cruyff. I admire his football-vision and how he had already this vision, including exercising his influence to realise it, at 23-years old. And maintained it consistently for the rest of his life. Somewhat more questionable is his continuous quarrelling with all kinds of people. He himself often said that you need conflicts in order to set the minds sharp (before WC1974 he made a fuss about some minor issues; his reasoning was that only then everyone realised what a once in a lifetime opportunity it was), but in practice it did not always turn out that way. Also pity is that he was before WC1974 not interested at all in the national team. He sometimes participated but sometimes did not show up at crucial moments. An argument can be made that with Cruyff, or with no Cruyff at all on earth, the Netherlands would had reached the 1966 and 1970 World Cup. However, I do have him in the same league as Eusebio. Just as Eusebio, he had a lasting impact in a relatively small country, and lifted them to a higher level.
1969/1970 – AFC Ajax (33 goals in 49 matches) 165. 10/08/1969 --- GVAV – Ajax 1:3 166. 17/08/1969 --- Ajax – Go Ahead 2:0 [1] 167. 24/08/1969 --- Sparta – Ajax 2:4 [1] 168. 31/08/1969 --- Ajax – NEC 2:1 [1] 169. 07/09/1969 --- Poland – Netherlands 2:1 [WC – qualifiers] 170. 21/09/1969 --- Ajax – Haarlem 4:0 [2] 171. 24/09/1969 --- Ajax – Hannover (GER) 3:0 [1] [EC-III, 1st round] 172. 28/09/1969 --- Holland Sport – Ajax 1:4 173. 05/10/1969 --- Ajax – PSV 3:0 [1] 174. 12/10/1969 --- FC Twente – Ajax 0:3 175. 26/10/1969 --- Ajax – DOS 4:0 [3] 176. 02/11/1969 --- Feyenoord – Ajax 1:0 177. 05/11/1969 --- Netherlands – England 0:1 [Friendly] 178. 09/11/1969 --- Ajax – NAC 2:1 179. 16/11/1969 --- DWS – Ajax 0:2 180. 19/11/1969 --- Ajax – Ruch Chorzow (POL) 7:0 [2] [EC-III, 2nd rnd] 181. 23/11/1969 --- Ajax – Telstar 4:1 [1] 182. 26/11/1969 --- Ruch Chorzow (POL) – Ajax 1:2 [EC-III, 2nd rnd] 183. 30/11/1969 --- SVV – Ajax 0:6 184. 07/12/1969 --- Ajax – ADO 2:1 185. 14/12/1969 --- EDO – Ajax 0:4 [1] [Dutch Cup, 1st round] 186. 14/01/1970 --- England – Netherlands 0:0 [Friendly] 187. 18/01/1970 --- NEC – Ajax 0:0 188. 21/01/1970 --- Ajax – Napoli (ITA) 4:0 (a.e.t.) [EC-III, 3rd round] 189. 01/02/1970 --- MVV – Ajax 1:1 190. 08/02/1970 --- Ajax – AZ67 4:1 [2] 191. 13/02/1970 --- Go Ahead – Ajax 1:3 [2] 192. 25/02/1970 --- Ajax – Sparta 2:1 [1] 193. 01/03/1970 --- Vitesse – Ajax 1:3 [1] [Dutch Cup, 2nd round] 194. 04/03/1970 --- Carl Zeiss Jena (GDR) – Ajax 3:1 [EC-III, quart.-fin.] 195. 08/03/1970 --- Haarlem – Ajax 0:1 196. 11/03/1970 --- Ajax – Carl Zeiss Jena (GDR) 5:1 [1] [EC-III, qf] 197. 15/03/1970 --- Ajax – Holland Sport 5:1 198. 25/03/1970 --- Ajax – GVAV 3:0 199. 30/03/1970 --- PSV – Ajax 1:3 200. 05/04/1970 --- Ajax – FC Twente 3:0 201. 08/04/1970 --- Arsenal (ENG) – Ajax 3:0 [EC-III, sf] 202. 12/04/1970 --- AZ67 – Ajax 2:1 [1] [Dutch Cup, 3rd round] 203. 15/04/1970 --- Ajax – Arsenal (ENG) 1:0 [EC-III, sf] 204. 19/04/1970 --- DOS – Ajax 1:7 [1] 205. 26/04/1970 --- Ajax – Feyenoord 3:3 [1] 206. 30/04/1970 --- Ajax – MVV 2:0 207. 03/05/1970 --- NAC – Ajax 1:1 [1] 208. 07/05/1970 --- Ajax – DWS 6:1 [2] 209. 10/05/1970 --- Telstar – Ajax 1:1 210. 14/05/1970 --- Ajax – FC Twente 4:0 [2] [Dutch Cup, semi-final] 211. 18/05/1970 --- Ajax – SVV 8:0 [3] 212. 24/05/1970 --- ADO – Ajax 1:1 213. 27/05/1970 --- Ajax – PSV 2:0 [1] [Dutch Cup, final] Goals against top five sides: 7 goals (in 10 matches) League position Ajax: 1st (out of 18), 60 points, 100 goals for, 23 goals against. Club topscorers Ajax (league): Dick van Dijk (23/32), Johan Cruijff (23/33), Piet Keizer (18/32), Sjaak Swart (13/31), Gerrie Mühren (7/31), Velibor Vasovic (7/32)
1970/1971 – AFC Ajax (31 goals in 39 matches) 214. 12/09/1970 --- Ajax – DWS 4:0 215. 30/10/1970 --- Ajax – PSV 1:0 216. 04/11/1970 --- FC Basel (SUI) – Ajax 1:2 [EC-1, 2nd round] 217. 08/11/1970 --- Heracles – Ajax 0:3 [1] [Dutch Cup, 2nd round] 218. 15/11/1970 --- NAC – Ajax 0:2 [1] 219. 22/11/1970 --- Ajax – Holland Sport 2:1 220. 29/11/1970 --- Ajax – AZ67 8:1 [6] 221. 02/12/1970 --- Netherlands – Romania 2:0 [2] [Friendly] 222. 06/12/1970 --- Haarlem – Ajax 0:5 223. 13/12/1970 --- Ajax – FC Utrecht 7:1 [3] 224. 20/12/1970 --- Feyenoord – Ajax 1:1 225. 10/01/1971 --- Ajax – NEC 4:1 [1] 226. 17/01/1971 --- MVV – Ajax 1:0 227. 24/01/1971 --- Ajax – ADO 3:0 [1] 228. 31/01/1971 --- DWS – Ajax 0:1 229. 07/02/1971 --- Ajax – Go Ahead 5:1 [1] 230. 21/02/1971 --- Ajax – Volendam 4:0 [1] 231. 24/02/1971 --- Netherlands – Luxembourg 6:0 [2] [Euro-qualifiers] 232. 28/02/1971 --- Telstar – Ajax 0:1 [1] 233. 10/03/1971 --- Ajax – Celtic (SCO) 3:0 [1] [EC-1, quar.-final] 234. 14/03/1971 --- Ajax – Den Bosch 4:0 [1] [Dutch Cup, 3rd rnd] 235. 21/03/1971 --- Sparta – Ajax 0:0 236. 24/03/1971 --- Celtic (SCO) – Ajax 1:0 [EC-1, quar.-final] 237. 07/04/1971 --- Feyenoord – Ajax 1:2 [Dutch Cup, quar.-final] 238. 10/04/1971 --- Ajax – Excelsior 7:0 239. 14/04/1971 --- Atlético Madrid (ESP) – Ajax 1:0 [EC-1, semi] 240. 18/04/1971 --- PSV – Ajax 0:3 [2] 241. 21/04/1971 --- Ajax – NEC 2:0 [1] [Dutch Cup, semi] 242. 28/04/1971 --- Ajax – Atlético Madrid (ESP) 3:0 [EC-1, semi] 243. 02/05/1971 --- Holland Sport – Ajax 0:3 [1] 244. 05/05/1971 --- Sparta – Ajax 2:2 (a.e.t.) [2] [Dutch Cup, final] 245. 09/05/1971 --- AZ67 – Ajax 0:3 246. 12/05/1971 --- Ajax – NAC 3:0 247. 16/05/1971 --- Ajax – Haarlem 4:0 [1] 248. 20/05/1971 --- Ajax – Sparta 2:1 [Dutch Cup, fin.-replay] 249. 23/05/1971 --- Utrecht – Ajax 0:3 [2] 250. 27/05/1971 --- Ajax – Feyenoord 1:3 251. 02/06/1971 --- Ajax – Panathinaikos (GRE) 2:0 [EC-1, final] 252. 06/06/1971 --- Go Ahead – Ajax 4:1 Goals against top five sides: 3 goals (in 6 matches) League position Ajax: 2nd (out of 18), 53 points, 90 goals for, 20 goals against. Club topscorers Ajax (league): Johan Cruijff (21/25), Dick van Dijk (18/24), Sjaak Swart (14/30), Gerrie Mühren (10/27), Piet Keizer (9/32)
semifinal against germany ...sweden had selected people between the field and the tribunes with megaphones to increase the yelling of the homecrowd against the not liked germans..ect....this was not right ....maybe you mean sweden wasnt allowed to do that in the final against brasil..?? fifa order for no noise or yelling ....?? seriously i cant imagine..
Had the Swedish FA really arranged that? My sources indeed discuss the complaints of the German losers about the noise and yelling during the match. This led to a total ban of any partisan noise during the final, a ban that was lobbyd by Havelange.
i dont think the fifa can ban and control the noise and yelling of severall 10000 people but can ban selceted people standing between tribunes and field with megaphones....a important diffrense...in many swedish newpapers there was allready nazicomments against the germans too prior ....so the atmosphäre was at least questionable....the germans wasnt worster than the sweden team , but with 9 players on the field its not likly to win against a hostteam if the referee is olso affected from the altmosphäre.....my sources (a worldcup publikation published 1958) ..juskowiak was send off for a revanchefoul...the germans never have disputed his action , it was dumb......but it was hamrin where has kicked juskowiak first..maybe the referee has not seen it ...3 days after the game hamrin is quoted :.. there was the possibilty for the referee to send him off too..using my old worldcuppublikation ......however today nobody remember and nobody cares ..and finally parling (without consequences for him)with a bad foul has injured fritz walter moments later and fritz walter became a passenger... i mean its you where point out the finger allways against some selected teams and nations.. defending sweden on all corners and his defeat against brasil...... your highpraised team 1974 with 11 players on the field did loose against the host 2:1 in a game gerd müller was recalled wrongfully a good goal....so what makes the german 1958 loosers and others not??
No, the Swedish FA was responsible for their own supporters. The FA did everything to prevent any noise. You can also hear it on tape at the 1958 final. There is less noise as in the semi-final. Yes, and the German newspapers used Mussolini-terminology to describe the Swedish players who played in Italy. The camera did no see it too. There are multiple accounts about what happened there. I do not have the willigness to discuss this. Hamrin was right because it was a rough game of both sides. At the same time, that is also the reason why a sending-off would have been misplaced, unbalanced and unfair. You forget that the Germans also injured a Swedish player. Fine, but you can't deny that the atmosphere surrounding the final had effects on the match. The Brazilian delegation seized the opportunity and succeeded. What also happened was that the field was shielded from any rain falling down. That also benefited the Brazilians, whereas rain was a beneficial factor for the Germans in 1954 and 1974, among other editions. That game had multiple questionable moments (including both penalty-kicks itself). I have no energy to discuss this.
why is the send off juskowiak fair and hamrin not sending him off fair...its doublestandart..you point allways out no footage..no footage means irrelevant?? is there footage juskowiak kicking hamrin?? is there enough videofootage where confirm this game was rough??? i dont think..was it rough good possible... fritz walter was the only player on the field where was passenger after his injury.... so germany is responcable for rainweather and benifited from that allways....poland and sweden are countries where rain and bad pitches is common and the players knows to deal with..what a boring excuse....germany won 3:1 in poland on a dry field and has played 0:0 at home on a snow and rainaffected pitch in ec qualifers for the 1972 eurochampionship...germany did loose 1971 0:1 in sweden on a pitch that was worster than the pitch against poland wc 1974...you loose and you win on all fields you play ...do you knows what you talk about?? i have not counted the questionable penaltys 1974 for reason germany was given a undeserved penalty and germany was denid 1 penalty in this game too , ....its evened out...the penalty for netherland was a close call...however inclusive gerd müllers blatant denid good goal netherland had the advantage of luck judging this actions and seriously never can complain...maybe you have a short memory too....not wondering why you are not comfortable to speak about... ------- It could have been totally, totally different. Holland’s Total Football of 1974 could have never existed. During the qualifications, Holland were more than once very close to elimination. Holland, Belgium, Norway, Iceland. That was the draw for qualification group 3, European zone, for the World Cup 1974. It brought two old enemies together, Holland and Belgium having a long and illustrious history behind them from 1905 on, when Eddy de Neve’s four goals gave the Dutch their first international win. For many years Holland and Belgium played two Derbies of the Low Lands, and these were the most dramatic matches of the year for both countries. Norway and Iceland would be nothing more than cannonfodder in this group. Just to add to your goaldifference, but in that respect still very important. And that’s how it happened. Although Belgium needed three penalties to score a total four times against Norway, and the Scandinavian amateurs could have surprised the Dutch when they nearly held on for a 1-1 draw, until a masterly backheel by Cruijff put Hulshoff free, who scored a hardfought winner in Oslo. But all in all, it was clear that the last match between Holland and Belgium would decide, who would go to Germany. The first match between Belgium and Holland had taken place on november 19, 1972 in “De hel van Deurne”, the Antwerpen-stadium. It turned out not to be a soccermatch, but a fight, a battle. When it became clear that it would be very difficult to grab a win, Holland went for a 0-0. Both goalkeepers, Christian Piot and Jan van Beveren, were in magnificent form that night, although the Dutch Giant had no chance when leftback Jean Thissen beat him with a powerful left-footed shot, that hit the post. Holland, that had played a very physical match, escaped for the first time. Their best teammate had been the left post next to Van Beveren. Because Holland won 1-2 in Norway, with that late Barry Hulshoff goal I mentioned before, Belgium had to win the last match, on november 18, 1973 in the old Amsterdam Olympic Stadium. Holland had the far better goaldifference, a 9-0 humiliation of Norway helped a lot. I remember the match in Amsterdam very well, it was – after the Oslo game two months earlier – the second game a saw live on television in my life. I remember I had difficulties keeping Paul Van Himst and Gilbert Van Binst apart, their names being almost the same. My father gave me my first football-lessons: “Van Himst is the one with the armband, he plays in attack near the Dutch goal. Van Binst is a defender, he plays just in front of the Belgian goal.” We all expected Belgium to play “all or nothing”, but no: nothing like it. They defended with everything they had, and Holland didn’t know what to do. Hold on for a draw, or try to win the match and take the risk that one Belgian counter-attack would throw everything to tatters. Holland had to miss goalkeeper Jan van Beveren and sweeper Rinus Israël because of injuries, but their substitutes Piet Schrijvers and Aad Mansveld were never seriously tested. On the other end, Belgium goalie Christian Piot made some fine saves, especially on a Johnny Rep header, that could have decided the whole thing. But Piot managed to tip the short range effort wide. The last 15 minutes, and still no pressure from Paul Van Himst and his men. We couldn’t believe our eyes. Didn’t these guys want to go to the World Cup? Were they thinking that a second spot would still give them a play-off, or what? Then, one minute from time, Johan Neeskens fouled Van Himst like he had done numerous times before, and the Belgian captain took the free kick himself. Holland tried the off-side trap. Piet Schrijvers misjudged the curling ball that landed at the far post, for Jan Verheyen to tap it in. Bang!!! No World Cup for Holland, down and out, end of the show, eliminated once again. And this is were the Russian referee came in. And were Holland escaped for the second time during this qualificationseries. Pawel Nikolaiewich Kazakow changed the history of the game. He gave off-side. The slow-motion of the situation let space for doubts, Verheyen seemed to be on-side when Van Himst touched the ball, and of course that was the moment that mattered. There was no protest whatsoever from the Belgian players, play went on immediately but we felt we had been extremely lucky. After having missed the World Cup 1970 and Euro 1972, this would have been a disaster for Dutch football, with all their talented players and all their European Cups under their belt. Looking back in time, we can say that there would never have been a Cruijff or a Van Hanegem at the World Cup. A few years ago, a new computerprogram was introduced at Studio Sport, Holland’s most famous sportsprogram. With this, it is possible to stop a certain situation on the field and watch it from different angles. One of the first situations they examined with it, was this Belgian goal from Verheyen that was disallowed. The computer showed clearly that Verheyen had not been off-side, not by a mile. We have to be very grateful to this referee from Russia. Without him, without his decision, Holland wouldn’t have made it to the World Cup 1974 at all, and their famous campaign that brought them to the final would never have taken place. And even now, we would have looked in a very different way to Dutch football, since this 1974 competition brought Holland worldwide fame for the first time. Belgian coach Raymond Goethals, never a daredevil in his whole career, after the Amsterdam-clash declared, that he praised Christian Piot for not letting in a single goal in 6 games. He told the world that he was very satisfied with the result. So were we... ------ holland had one of the easiest draw of alltime and still needed a referee to eliminate your little brothers belgium where was undefeated and where has not conceeded a single goal in 6 games... and you complain weatherconditions in favor of germany 1974?? your team lucky escaped in the wcq and belgium was robbed the wcq....
I'm not gonna respond to this trolling and deliberate spoiling of a thread. All I have to say is two things: 1) The Belgian commentator of that match recently said that he was happy that Holland reached the world cup instead of Belgium. It caused no stir. 2) Germany robbed others many times. For example against portugal in 1998 qualifiers. But such moments are never discussed by the Anglo-German axis. 3) The German account of the Germany-Sweden58 game is not the only story, or the complete story. Nor are you (you were silence about the Mussolini comparisons by the German press). 4) I am accused of being biased and I admit it. Unfortunately, you and your friends like Gregoriak do not talk about their agenda, an agenda which consists of gold-plating German football history and even denying all scandals (like Austria-Germany 1982). 5) I have no blind eye for Dutch football scandals, see my comments in the doping thread.
Good thread. The problem with Austria v Germany 1982 is that roughly 92% of all the people that talk about that game have never seen it but rely on second- or third-rate reports. I too haven't seen that game live. I grew up hearing about that game and the stories went like this: "As soon as Hrubesch scored the 1:0 after 11 minutes both teams stopped playing football for the remainder of the game". Sometimes it even was claimed that "players of both teams passed the ball between each others". This was from German books. I absolutely believed these reports and was embarrassed by it. Sometime in the mid-1990s when I started purchasing VHS of old football games I also bought the 1982 Austria v Germany game. I fully expected to see a game which was totally laughable, with both teams spending 79 minutes just passing the ball around, with no tackles, no goal action, nothing. I even was waiting to see scenes of how Austrians and Germans were passing the ball between them. But when I watched that game a surprise set in. I realized that all these reports which I fully believed were grossly exaggerated to the extreme. My "agenda" since watching that game is to get rid of the gross bullshit exaggerations and tell how it was. If people are still too plain lazy to watch the game themselves, they should not comment on it. I don't know if you have seen the full game, but if you have, you surely would have to agree that both teams didn't stop playing football after 11 minutes and so on. It didn't really start to get fishy after about 55 minutes. And still, the rest of the game wasn't even close to what people always claim it was about.
The passing of the ball between each other never happened, agree. But I do not agree that the pacifist stance only begun in the second half; it started earlier. By the way, by the parties involved an agreement was never denied (Jupp Derwall was very clear, before and after the match; his Austrian colleague too). That is why it became so infamous; people, and even dumb journalists, saw it coming. In fact, the controversy started already before the game, because everyone had the Argentina-Peru affair back in their mind. People saw already what was going to happen and tried to change the order of matches. To be precise: in no other single group it happened that the nations of pot1 and pot2 played against each other in the very last group match, except for this single game. Of course they prevented such match-ups, it is after all very likely that the 'strong' nations of pot1 and pot2 had accumulated after the second match enough points to reach an agreement (although the tendency to save the pot1 versus pot4 match for the last round can also be seen as a form of 'match-fixing'; a pot1 nation gets a final opportunity to set some things straight and has an indication of how many goals he has to score). Furthermore, in most other group matches (except the group with hosts Spain, which is suspicious in itself if you are familiar with the background history of the host-assignment) the last round consisted of a pot2 versus pot 3 match-up, between direct competitors for a spot in the next round. The group with Germany was an exception in this respect and they knew it. A changing of the order was discussed but prevented by FIFA vice-president Hermann Neuberger, indeed, a German and a good friend of 'drahtzieher' Horst Dassler. Why they did it this way has never become clear (at least, I never read about it) but it has become clear that Neuberger prevented a change. And to make the circle round: something similar, although it happened as a result of a strange order of events rather than a deliberate grand design, happened in Holland too. Ajax played their last match of the 1967/1968 campaign against ADO Den Haag. It has been said that their captain Aad Mansveld made a deliberate handball in the penalty area in order to let Ajax win the championship (ADO was fourth on the ranking and had no chance to win it, nor a viable chance to reach a spot for european football). The Cup final, which was played a week later, was also between Ajax and ADO. But because Ajax had already won the championship, cup finalists ADO automatically qualified for the Cup Winners Cup.
I don't want this thread to stray away from the topic too far, let me just post a translation of the account made by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge after the '82 World Cup. It is taken from this book: "Actually the game vs. Austria was intended to become a good completion of the first round, but that aim was completely missed. Such an upset and resentful audience I have only seen once so far in my life: also in Spain, a year ago, when the whole team of Bayern München left the pitch in a tournament game against Dynamo Tblissi after a well-known referee scandal. This time however it was far worse. It was known to me what it meant in a bullfighting arena when the spectators screamed in fury while swinging tissues in their hands. It means: “Coward – go home!” After a sober observation I did understand the angry spectators, because it wasn’t “nice” or “entertaining” inside the stadium that day. Almost the whole first half the game was rather customary with regards to our team. The early goal by Hrubesch gave us confidence. Afterwards we had a lot of goal chances which we however did not convert. The 1-0 lead was in no way calming. If we had been leading by two goals, we wouldn’t have become as nervous as we did. Our worry was to concede a goal which could have meant our elimination. Personally I cannot accept the accusation that this game was somehow rigged beforehand, or that there was an agreement between the Austrians or us. Surely, during the second half when we noticed that the Austrians wanted to keep that result and were playing backwards all of the time, we kind of adapted to that, because the result was in our favour as well. But an agreement? Something like that is totally unfeasible. I resolutely repudiate this! Since Cordoba 1978 the relationship between our team and the Austrians is strained. In such an atmosphere it is unthinkable that one would contact “the other side” trying to make a deal. Those that accuse us of an agreement should have watched the coaching bench during the game. I have never seen such a hectic and tense vibe. When I sat on the bench myself later in the game, waiting for the final whistle, I asked our kit manager nervously every few seconds when the game will be over. The fear of a goal by the Austrians - which would have rendered everything void for us - wore us down until the final minute. It looked boring and harmless to the spectators, but to us it wasn’t anything than boring. In addition to this one shall not forget one thing: Germany factually played with nine healthy and two unfit players. Uli Stielike, already soon after kick-off, couldn’t really take part in the game and after ca. 20 minutes I got knocked as well. My pulled muscle - which troubled me since my shot against the Algerians which was the 1-1 – was suddenly back hindering me after a one-two with Horst Hrubesch. I couldn’t spurt anymore, let alone shoot. Thus until my substitution I acted as a half-decent midfield player. The spectators were furious when I got substituted. To them it was a sign that we had agreed on keeping the result, they couldn’t know that I couldn’t go on anymore. It was no trick, it was a bitter necessity. I just couldn’t go on playing".
I don't mean to be off topic either, but Gregoriak: I've never watched the match but like most fans of course I have read all kinds of things about how scandalous it was. So given the circumstances in which it happened and the reliability of the material where I read it, I sort of accepted the "fixing" as the reality and I was never particularly interested in watching the footage... but now that I've read this discussion, and footage is much easier to get a hold of than before, well, I'm curious to watch the whole match. Will I really be enlightened by a different reality, or will I just confirm what the media has been portraying since, even if exaggeratedly?
Of course, because what Bayern president Rummenigge says must be the truth. No seriously: Yes, the crowd was already hostile before the match began. They had already a coloured perception because of the pre-match build up. It is interesting to read what Rummenigge thinks of if but it is very unlikely to confess something back in 1983. We all know what happened with the goalkeeper who did confess some comprimising things (kalgestellt). Also current Rummenigge, given his job and profession, is unlikely to say something. It becomes more credible when a ex-footballer isn't involved at all in the football business any more. I doubt his remark about the relation with the Austrians. The Austrians had a different coach than in 1978 and also partly a different squad than in 1978 and between those four years they played one friendly match (in 1980) and two qualification matches against each other, which weren't dirty, controversial or anything like that. Maybe you have enough honour in your body to win a match, but the citing of a 'strained relationship' with the Austrians is a weak argument I think. It seems unlikely that it was strained enough to prevent any 'silent' agreement. The citing of his injury is also unconvincing. That injury did not prevent him from playing in all other matches in the tournament, and rightly so because a world championship was at stake. So why was he taken off when qualification for the next round was at stake?
1971/1972 – AFC Ajax (38 goals in 50 matches) 253. 15/08/1971 --- FC Twente – Ajax 0:2 254. 22/08/1971 --- Ajax – FC Den Haag 1:0 255. 29/08/1971 --- Sparta – Ajax 1:1 256. 12/09/1971 --- FC Groningen – Ajax 0:0 257. 15/09/1971 --- Ajax – Dynamo Dresden (GDR) 2:0 [EC-1, 1st rnd] 258. 19/09/1971 --- Ajax – NAC 5:0 [1] 259. 26/09/1971 --- PSV – Ajax 1:1 260. 29/09/1971 --- Dynamo Dresden (GDR) – Ajax 0:0 [EC-1, 1st rnd] 261. 03/10/1971 --- Ajax – NEC 1:0 262. 10/10/1971 --- Netherlands – East-Germany 3:2 [Euro-qualifiers] 263. 15/10/1971 --- DWS – Ajax 0:2 264. 20/10/1971 --- Olymp. Marseille (FRA) – Ajax 1:2 [1] [EC-1, 2nd rnd] 265. 24/10/1971 --- Ajax – Go Ahead 4:1 266. 31/10/1971 --- MVV – Ajax 0:3 [1] 267. 03/11/1971 --- Ajax – Olymp. Marseille (FRA) 4:1 [2] [EC-1 2nd rnd] 268. 07/11/1971 --- Ajax – Feyenoord 2:1 269. 14/11/1971 --- FC Utrecht – Ajax 2:3 270. 17/11/1971 --- Netherlands – Luxembourg 8:0 [3] [Euro-qualifiers] 271. 21/11/1971 --- Ajax – Telstar 5:2 [3] 272. 28/11/1971 --- Volendam – Ajax 0:1 273. 01/12/1971 --- Netherlands – Scotland 2:1 [1] [Friendly] 274. 05/12/1971 --- Ajax – FC Den Bosch 5:0 [2] 275. 12/12/1971 --- Vitesse - Ajax 1:3 [1] 276. 18/12/1971 --- Ajax – FC Twente 1:0 277. 02/01/1972 --- FC Den Haag – Ajax 1:2 [1] 278. 09/01/1972 --- Ajax – PEC Zwolle 8:3 [2] [Dutch Cup, 1st rnd] 279. 16/01/1972 --- Ajax – Sparta 2:1 [1] 280. 06/02/1972 --- NAC – Ajax 2:5 281. 16/02/1972 --- Greece – Netherlands 0:5 [2] [Friendly] 282. 20/02/1972 --- Ajax – Go Ahead 3:0 [Dutch Cup, 2nd rnd] 283. 26/02/1972 --- Excelsior – Ajax 0:4 [2] 284. 03/03/1972 --- Ajax – FC Groningen 7:0 [3] 285. 08/03/1972 --- Ajax – Arsenal (ENG) 2:1 [EC-1, quarter-final] 286. 12/03/1972 --- Ajax – PSV 4:1 287. 19/03/1972 --- NEC – Ajax 0:1 288. 22/03/1972 --- Arsenal (ENG) – Ajax 0:1 [EC-1, quarter-final] 289. 26/03/1972 --- Ajax – DWS 2:0 290. 29/03/1972 --- Ajax – NEC 1:0 [Dutch Cup, quarter-final] 291. 01/04/1972 --- Go Ahead – Ajax 3:2 [1] 292. 05/04/1972 --- Ajax – Benfica (POR) 1:0 [EC-1, semi] 293. 15/04/1972 --- Feyenoord – Ajax 1:5 [1] 294. 19/04/1972 --- Benfica (POR) – Ajax 0:0 [EC-1, semi] 295. 23/04/1972 --- Ajax – FC Utrecht 4:0 [1] 296. 30/04/1972 --- Telstar – Ajax 1:2 297. 03/05/1972 --- Netherlands – Peru 3:0 [Friendly] 298. 07/05/1972 --- Ajax – Volendam 2:0 [1] 299. 11/05/1972 --- Ajax – FC Den Haag 3:2 [1] [Dutch Cup, final] 300. 14/05/1972 --- FC Den Bosch – Ajax 0:1 [1] 301. 19/05/1972 --- Ajax – Vitesse 12:1 [4] 302. 31/05/1972 --- Ajax – Internazionale (ITA) 2:0 [2] [EC-1, final] Goals against top five sides: 4 (or 5) goals (in 9 matches) League position Ajax: 1st (out of 18), 63 points, 104 goals for, 20 goals against. Club topscorers Ajax: Johan Cruijff (24/32), Dick van Dijk (15/21), Piet Keizer (14/31), Sjaak Swart (11/31), Johan Neeskens (10/27), Gerrie Mühren (9/28) N.B.: most sources attribute two goals in the Feyenoord – Ajax 1:5 (match 293; 15/04/1972) match to Cruyff instead of one goal (judge for yourself: [FONT="]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDw7lk3rcJ8]klick[/FONT]). N.B. 2: a documentary exists where Cruyff is followed in this season, including a considerable amount of footage.
1972/1973 – AFC Ajax (26 goals in 40 matches) 303. 13/08/1972 --- Ajax – Haarlem 3:0 304. 20/08/1972 --- FC Amsterdam – Ajax 1:2 305. 26/08/1972 --- Ajax – Go Ahead 6:0 [4] 306. 30/08/1972 --- Czechoslovakia – Netherlands 1:2 [1] [Friendly] 307. 02/09/1972 --- PSV – Ajax 0:2 308. 06/09/1972 --- Independiente (ARG) – Ajax 1:1 [1] [Intercont. Cup] 309. 17/09/1972 --- Feyenoord – Ajax 2:0 310. 27/09/1972 --- Ajax – Independiente (ARG) 3:0 [Intercont. Cup] 311. 01/10/1972 --- NAC – Ajax 2:0 312. 08/10/1972 --- Ajax – Telstar 9:2 [1] 313. 15/10/1972 --- FC Utrecht – Ajax 0:1 [1] 314. 21/10/1972 --- FC Twente – Ajax 0:1 [1] 315. 01/11/1972 --- Netherlands – Norway 9:0 [2] [WC-qualifiers] 316. 05/11/1972 --- Ajax – FC Den Bosch 9:0 [2] 317. 08/11/1972 --- CSKA Sofia (BUL) – Ajax 1:3 [EC-1, 2nd rnd] 318. 19/11/1972 --- Belgium – Netherlands 0:0 [WC-qualifiers] 319. 25/11/1972 --- Ajax – Excelsior 8:0 [3] 320. 29/11/1972 --- Ajax – CSKA Sofia (BUL) 3:0 [2] [EC-1, 2nd rnd] 321. 03/12/1972 --- Sparta – Ajax 3:1 322. 14/01/1973 --- Haarlem – Ajax 0:4 323. 16/01/1973 --- Glasgow Rangers (SCO) – Ajax 1:3 [1] [Super Cup] 324. 21/01/1973 --- Ajax – FC Amsterdam 2:1 325. 24/01/1973 --- Ajax – Glasgow Rangers (SCO) 3:2 [1] [Super Cup] 326. 04/02/1973 --- Go Ahead – Ajax 0:1 327. 11/02/1973 --- Ajax – PSV 3:1 [1] 328. 25/02/1973 --- NEC – Ajax 0:4 [1] 329. 03/03/1973 --- Ajax – Feyenoord 2:1 330. 07/03/1973 --- Ajax – Bayern Mun. (GER) 4:0 [1] [EC-1, quarter final] 331. 11/03/1973 --- FC Groningen – Ajax 0:2 332. 17/03/1973 --- Ajax – NAC 4:0 333. 07/04/1973 --- Ajax – FC Twente 1:0 334. 11/04/1973 --- Ajax – Real Madrid (ESP) 2:1 [EC-1, semi] 335. 15/04/1973 --- FC Den Bosch – Ajax 1:2 336. 21/04/1973 --- Ajax – FC Den Haag 5:0 [1] 337. 25/04/1973 --- Real Madrid (ESP) – Ajax 0:1 [EC-1, semi] 338. 29/04/1973 --- Excelsior – Ajax 0:1 [1] 339. 02/05/1973 --- Netherlands – Spain 3:2 [1] [Friendly] 340. 13/05/1973 --- MVV – Ajax 1:0 341. 19/05/1973 --- Ajax – AZ67 3:0 342. 31/05/1973 --- Ajax – Juventus (ITA) 1:0 [EC-1, final] Goals against top five sides: 2 goals (in 6 matches) League position Ajax: 1st (out of 18), 60 points, 102 goals for, 18 against. Club topscorers Ajax: Johan Cruijff (16/26), Johnny Rep (14/18), Piet Keizer (12/29), Gerrie Mühren (11/28), Arie Haan (10/30), Sjaak Swart (9/16) N.B.: Ajax did participate in the Dutch Cup but went out in their first match against NAC on 10 december 1972. Cruijff injured himself in the warming-up and did not participate, Keizer was suspended. It is not a typo, omitted or forgotten. 1973/1974 – AFC Ajax (3 goals in 2 matches) 343. 02/08/1973 --- FC Groningen – Ajax 0:4 [2] 344. 19/08/1973 --- Ajax – FC Amsterdam 6:1 [1] Goals against top five sides: N/A League position Ajax: 3rd (out of 18), 51 points, 88 goals for, 30 against. Club topscorers Ajax: Johnny Rep (14/27), Johan Neeskens (13/28), Gerrie Mühren (10/29), Jan Mulder (7/21), Arnold Mühren (5/12); Suurbier, Keizer and Haan each 4 goals.