FIFA Ballon d'Or 2014

World Footballer of the Year 2014
Cristiano Ronaldo

The 59th Ballon d'Or ( French for Golden Ball ) was awarded for the fifth time in 2014 by France Football magazine and the world football association FIFA under the name FIFA Ballon d'Or .

On October 28, 2014, the 23 candidates for the world football elections were announced, four days earlier the candidates for the world football player election were published. On December 1, 2014, the three players with the most votes were announced, these were Cristiano Ronaldo , Lionel Messi and Manuel Neuer . The winner was announced and the awards ceremony took place on January 12, 2015 at the FIFA Ballon d'Or gala in the Kongresshaus in Zurich .

Voting mode

The prize was awarded by a jury made up of national coaches , national team captains and specialist journalists. These awarded five, three or one point to three players from a list jointly set by the France Football editorial team and FIFA. The performance of the players should be recognized throughout the respective calendar year. Since the three groups of voters have different numbers of voters, but the votes of these three "electoral colleges" should each account for exactly one third of the total result, the absolute scores were then converted into percentages and published in this way.

Result

placement	Surname	nationality	society	Share of votes
1.	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	real Madrid	37.66%
2.	Lionel Messi	Argentina	FC Barcelona	15.76%
3.	Manuel Neuer	Germany	FC Bayern Munich	15.72%
4th	Arjen Robben	Netherlands	FC Bayern Munich	7.17%
5.	Thomas Müller	Germany	FC Bayern Munich	5.42%
6th	Philipp Lahm	Germany	FC Bayern Munich	2.90%
7th	Neymar	Brazil	FC Barcelona	2.21%
8th.	James Rodríguez	Colombia	AS Monaco / Real Madrid	1.47%
9.	Toni Kroos	Germany	FC Bayern Munich / Real Madrid	1.43%
10.	Ángel Di María	Argentina	Real Madrid / Manchester United	1.29%
11.	Diego Costa	Spain	Atlético Madrid / Chelsea FC	1.02%
12.	Gareth Bale	Wales	real Madrid	1.00%
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	Paris Saint-Germain	1.00%
14th	Yaya Touré	Ivory Coast	Manchester City	0.86%
15th	Mario Götze	Germany	FC Bayern Munich	0.84%
16.	Karim Benzema	France	real Madrid	0.75%
17th	Andrés Iniesta	Spain	FC Barcelona	0.67%
18th	Bastian Schweinsteiger	Germany	FC Bayern Munich	0.57%
19th	Javier Mascherano	Argentina	FC Barcelona	0.55%
20th	Thibaut Courtois	Belgium	Atlético Madrid / Chelsea FC	0.51%
21st	Eden Hazard	Belgium	Chelsea FC	0.47%
22nd	Paul Pogba	France	Juventus Turin	0.40%
23.	Sergio Ramos	Spain	real Madrid	0.33%

If you look only at the first places awarded, Ronaldo's victory is even clearer, because he was at the top of 304 ballot papers; 85 voted for Neuer and 56 for Messi. It was followed by Müller (22), Robben (17) and Lahm (12). Fifteen other players were ranked first at least once, most of them Neymar, James Rodriguez (6 each), Götze, Kroos and Bale (5 each). Only Touré and Hazard were not at the top of any ballot paper.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ All individual votes in France Football of January 13, 2015, pp. 20-25