The knockout stage of 1974 FIFA World Cup was a single-elimination tournament involving the four teams that qualified from the second group stage of the tournament. There were two matches: a match for third place contested by the group runners-up, and the final to decide the champions, contested by the group winners. The knockout stage began with the match for third place on 6 July and ended with the final on 7 July 1974, both at the Olympiastadion in Munich. West Germany won the tournament with a 2–1 victory over the Netherlands.
Qualified teams The top two placed teams from each of the two groups of the second round qualified for the knockout stage.
Group Winners(qualification for final) Runners-up(qualification for match for third place) A B
Match for third place
GK 1 Émerson LeãoRB 4Zé MariaCB 3Marinho PeresCB 15AlfredoLB 6Marinho ChagasCM 17CarpegianiCM 10RivellinoAM 18Ademir da Guia RW 13ValdomiroLW 21DirceuCF 7JairzinhoSubstitutions:CF 19Mirandinha Manager:Mário Zagallo GK 2 Jan TomaszewskiSW 6 Jerzy GorgońRB 4 Antoni SzymanowskiCB 9Władysław ŻmudaLB 10Adam MusiałCM 13Henryk Kasperczak CM 12Kazimierz DeynaCM 14Zygmunt MaszczykRW 16Grzegorz LatoLW 18Robert GadochaCF 17Andrzej Szarmach Substitutions:CM 11Lesław Ćmikiewicz CF 20Zdzisław Kapka Manager:Kazimierz Górski Assistant referees: Jafar Namdar (Iran) Youssou N'Diaye (Sénégal)
Final
References
Match reports
External links 1974 FIFA World Cup archive