1973–74 AC Milan season

Milan Associazione Calcio
1973–74 season
President	Albino Buticchi
Manager	Cesare Maldini, then Giovanni Trapattoni (with Nereo Rocco as technical director until February 1974)
Stadium	San Siro
Serie A	7º
Coppa Italia	Second round
Cup Winners' Cup	Runner-up
UEFA Super Cup	Runner-up
Top goalscorer	League: Luciano Chiarugi (11); All: Luciano Chiarugi (17)
Average home league attendance	47,466
Home colours	Away colours
	← 1972–73 1974–75 →

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.^[2]

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. 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	Team v t e	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

Source: Panini

Matches

7 October 1973 1	Sampdoria	3–2	Milan	Genova
	Improta 37' (pen.), 45' (rig.) Boni 46'	Report	7' (pen.) Rivera 51' Chiarugi	Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris Attendance: 36,038 Referee: Gonella

14 October 1973 2	Milan	1–0	Cesena	Milano
	Chiarugi 50'	Report		Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 45,079 Referee: Menegali

28 October 1973 3	Roma	1–2	Milan	Roma
	Cappellini 36'	Report	11' Chiarugi 20' Bianchi	Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 68,166 Referee: Barbaresco

4 November 1973 4	Milan	2–2	Cagliari	Milano
	Bianchi 17' Chiarugi 86'	Report	40', 51' Riva	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 48,208 Referee: Reggiani

18 November 1973 5	Lanerossi Vicenza	1–1	Milan	Vicenza
	Longoni 16'	Report	30' Sabadini	Stadium: Stadio Romeo Menti Attendance: 26,944 Referee: Gialluisi

25 November 1973 6	Milan	2–2	Juventus	Milano
	Rivera 21' (pen.), 87' (pen.)	Report	43', 77' Anastasi	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 80,560 Referee: Lattanzi

2 December 1973 7	Inter	2–1	Milan	Milano
	Boninsegna 14' Facchetti 70'	Report	40' Benetti	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 79,727 Referee: Serafino

9 December 1973 8	Milan	1–1	Fiorentina	Milano
	Chiarugi 38'	Report	55' Saltutti	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 54,409 Referee: Angonese

16 December 1973 9	Milan	2–1	Verona	Milano
	Benetti 33' Bergamaschi 65'	Report	79' Busatta	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 36,497 Referee: Trinchieri

23 December 1973 10	Napoli	1–2	Milan	Napoli
	Cané 50'	Report	58' Biasiolo 68' Chiarugi	Stadium: Stadio San Paolo Attendance: 83,731 Referee: Menegali

30 December 1973 11	Lazio	1–0	Milan	Roma
	Re Cecconi 90'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 68,143 Referee: Ciacci

6 January 1974 12	Milan	1–0	Torino	Milano
	Chiarugi 36'	Report		Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 41,279 Referee: Agnolin

13 January 1974 13	Milan	2–0	Genoa	Milano
	Tresoldi 42' Rivera 58'	Report		Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 30,836 Referee: Trono

20 January 1974 14	Bologna	3–2	Milan	Bologna
	Massimelli 42' Savoldi 49' Novellini 74'	Report	33' Rivera 44' Chiarugi	Stadium: Stadio Comunale Attendance: 44,904 Referee: Panzino

27 January 1974 15	Milan	1–0	Foggia	Milano
	Sabadini 67'	Report		Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 37,751 Referee: Angonese

3 February 1974 16	Milan	2–1	Sampdoria	Milano
	Benetti 3' Chiarugi 42'	Report	35' Badiani	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 27,580 Referee: Calì

10 February 1974 17	Cesena	1–0	Milan	Cesena
	Bertarelli 80'	Report		Stadium: Stadio La Fiorita Attendance: 35,940 Referee: Menicucci

17 February 1974 18	Milan	2–0	Roma	Milano
	Rivera 8' Maldera 59'	Report		Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 36,523 Referee: Agnolin

2 March 1974 19	Cagliari	0–1	Milan	Cagliari
		Report	67' Benetti	Stadium: Stadio Sant'Elia Attendance: 44,942 Referee: Barbaresco

10 March 1974 20	Milan	1–2	Lanerossi Vicenza	Milano
	Sabadini 63'	Report	23' Faloppa 66' Damiani	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 45,712 Referee: Trono

17 March 1974 21	Juventus	2–0	Milan	Torino
	Anastasi 46' Altafini 79'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Comunale Attendance: 62,947 Referee: Menegali

24 March 1974 22	Milan	1–5	Inter	Milano
	Chiarugi 20'	Report	5' Oriali 7' (o.g.) Sabadini 9' Boninsegna 44' Mazzola 69' Mariani	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 79,829 Referee: Angonese

31 March 1974 23	Fiorentina	3–2	Milan	Firenze
	Saltutti 34' Roggi 42' Antognoni 75'	Report	40' Biasiolo 76' Benetti	Stadium: Stadio Comunale Attendance: 38,977 Referee: Serafino

6 April 1974 24	Verona	2–1	Milan	Verona
	Sogliano 26' (o.g.) Zaccarelli 41' (pen.)	Report	88' Turini	Stadium: Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi Attendance: 35,096 Referee: Gialluisi

14 April 1974 25	Milan	0–0	Napoli	Milano
		Report		Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 46,474 Referee: Gonella

21 April 1974 26	Milan	0–0	Lazio	Milano
		Report		Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 63,096 Referee: Picasso

28 April 1974 27	Torino	1–0	Milan	Torino
	Pulici 16' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Stadio Comunale Attendance: 26,338 Referee: Levrero

4 May 1974 28	Genoa	0–1	Milan	Lucca
		Report	45' Chiarugi	Stadium: Stadio Porta Elisa^[3] Attendance: 18,649 Referee: Lattanzi

12 May 1974 29	Milan	1–1	Bologna	Milano
	Bigon 2'	Report	55' Novellini	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 33,853 Referee: Lenardon

19 May 1974 30	Foggia	0–0	Milan	Foggia
		Report		Stadium: Stadio Pino Zaccheria Attendance: 22,438 Referee: Menicucci

Coppa Italia

Second round

12 December 1973 1	Bologna	1–0	Milan	Bologna
	Savoldi 69'			Stadium: Stadio Comunale Attendance: 14,394 Referee: Toselli

23 January 1974 2	Milan	0–1	Inter	Milano
			77' Boninsegna	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 19,008 Referee: Gussoni

6 February 1974 3	Milan	2–1	Atalanta	Milano
	Benetti 46' Bigon 81'		23' Vignando	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 1,543 Referee: Lenardon

20 February 1974 4	Atalanta	2–4	Milan	Bergamo
	Divina 5' Vianello 89'		3' Chiarugi 21' Rivera 52' Bergamaschi 76' Bigon	Stadium: Stadio Comunale Attendance: 5,183 Referee: Martinelli

27 March 1974 5	Milan	1–1	Bologna	Milano
	Cresci 28' (o.g.)		14' Novellini	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Moretto

1 May 1974 6	Inter	2–1	Milan	Milano
	Boninsegna 10' Mazzola 23'		56' Sabadini	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 22,642 Referee: Casarin

Cup Winners' Cup

Round of 32

19 September 1973 1	Milan	3–1	Dinamo Zagabria	Milano
	Bigon 10', 53' Chiarugi 16'		70' Lalić	Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 47,428 Referee: Eschweiler

3 October 1973 2	Dinamo Zagabria	0–1	Milan	Zagabria
			7' Chiarugi	Stadium: Stadio Maksimir Attendance: 37,500 Referee: Kessler

Round of 16

24 October 1973 1	Milan	0–0	Rapid Vienna	Milano
				Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 17,896 Referee: Mackenzie

7 November 1973 2	Rapid Vienna	0–2	Milan	Vienna
			26', 41' Bigon	Stadium: Pfarrwiese Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Kazakov

Quarter-finals

13 March 1974 1	Milan	3–0	PAOK Salonicco	Milano
	Bigon 18' Benetti 38' Chiarugi 86'			Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 25,993 Referee: Bonnet

20 March 1974 2	PAOK Salonicco	2–2	Milan	Salonicco
	Sarafis 29', 72'		54' Bigon 78' Tresoldi	Stadium: Stadio Toumba Attendance: 47,500 Referee: Loraux

Semi-finals

10 April 1974 1	Milan	2–0	Borussia Monchengladbach	Milano
	Bigon 18' Chiarugi 58'			Stadium: Stadio San Siro Attendance: 60,671 Referee: Linemayr

24 April 1974 2	Borussia Monchengladbach	1–0	Milan	Düsseldorf
	Sabadini 28' (o.g.)			Stadium: Rheinstadion Attendance: 70,000 Referee: Martínez

Final

8 May 1974	Magdeburgo	2–0	Milan	Rotterdam
	Lanzi 42' (o.g.) Seguin 75'			Stadium: Stadion Feijenoord Attendance: 6,461 Referee: van Gemert

UEFA Super Cup

9 January 1974 1	Milan	1–0	Ajax	Milano
13:30	Chiarugi 77'	Report		Stadium: San Siro Attendance: 12,856 Referee: Scheurer

16 January 1974 2	Ajax	6–0	Milan	Amsterdam
20:15	Mulder 26' Keizer 35' Neeskens 71' Rep 81' Mühren 84' (pen.) Haan 87'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Glöckner

Statistics

Squad statistics

Competition^[4]	Points	Home						Away						Total						GD
Competition^[4]	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]	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		Serie A		Coppa Italia		Cup Winners' 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

Source: ^[6]

References

^ "Attendance Statistics of Serie A". stadiapostcards.com. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
^ "8 maggio 1974 – Il Magdeburgo vince la Coppa delle Coppe". glieroidelcalcio.com (in Italian). Retrieved 21 June 2023.
^ Due to disqualification of Genoa's pitch.
^ "Milan Associazione Calcio 1973–74". magliarossonera.it. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
^ Included the final, played in Rotterdam.
^ "Milan Associazione Calcio 1973–74". magliarossonera.it. Retrieved 21 June 2023.

Bibliography

Almanacco illustrato del Milan, ed: 2, March 2005. Panini.
Enrico Tosi. La storia del Milan, May 2005. Italia/Italy cid Tosi.
Milan. Sempre con te, December 2009. Mondadori. 2009. ISBN 978-88-04-59118-4.

External links

"Stagione 1973-1974". Magliarossonera.it.

[1] "Attendance Statistics of Serie A". stadiapostcards.com. Retrieved 21 June 2023.

[2] "8 maggio 1974 – Il Magdeburgo vince la Coppa delle Coppe". glieroidelcalcio.com (in Italian). Retrieved 21 June 2023.

[3] Due to disqualification of Genoa's pitch.

[4] "Milan Associazione Calcio 1973–74". magliarossonera.it. Retrieved 21 June 2023.

[5] Included the final, played in Rotterdam.

[6] "Milan Associazione Calcio 1973–74". magliarossonera.it. Retrieved 21 June 2023.

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