FIFA Ballon d'Or 2015

World Footballer of the Year 2015
Lionel Messi

The 60th Ballon d'Or ( French for Golden Ball ) was awarded for the sixth time by France Football magazine and the world football association FIFA under the name FIFA Ballon d'Or .

On October 20, 2015, the 23 candidates for the world football election were announced, the day before the candidates for the world football player election were published. On November 30, 2015, the three players with the most votes were announced, these were Cristiano Ronaldo , Lionel Messi and Neymar . The announcement of the winner and the award ceremony took place on January 11, 2016 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.	Lionel Messi	Argentina	FC Barcelona	41.33%
2.	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	real Madrid	27.76%
3.	Neymar	Brazil	FC Barcelona	7.86%
4th	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	FC Bayern Munich	4.17%
5.	Luis Suarez	Uruguay	FC Barcelona	3.38%
6th	Thomas Müller	Germany	FC Bayern Munich	2.21%
7th	Manuel Neuer	Germany	FC Bayern Munich	1.97%
8th.	Eden Hazard	Belgium	Chelsea FC	1.33%
9.	Andrés Iniesta	Spain	FC Barcelona	1.24%
10.	Alexis Sánchez	Chile	Arsenal FC	1.18%
11.	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	Paris Saint-Germain	1.13%
12.	Yaya Touré	Ivory Coast	Manchester City	0.89%
13.	Sergio Aguero	Argentina	Manchester City	0.86%
14th	Javier Mascherano	Argentina	FC Barcelona	0.79%
15th	Paul Pogba	France	Juventus Turin	0.72%
16.	Gareth Bale	Wales	real Madrid	0.65%
17th	Arturo Vidal	Chile	Juventus Turin / FC Bayern Munich	0.58%
18th	Kevin De Bruyne	Belgium	VfL Wolfsburg / Manchester City	0.47%
19th	James Rodríguez	Colombia	real Madrid	0.45%
20th	Karim Benzema	France	real Madrid	0.40%
21st	Toni Kroos	Germany	real Madrid	0.2931%
22nd	Arjen Robben	Netherlands	FC Bayern Munich	0.2930%
23.	Ivan Rakitić	Croatia	FC Barcelona	0.05%

poll

The votes of the team captains, national coaches and media representatives were published in detail after the gala.

Votes from German-speaking countries in detail

• Germany
  • Karlheinz Wild (KICKER sports magazine): 1st Messi, 2nd Müller, 3rd Cristiano Ronaldo
  • Joachim Löw : 1. Neuer, 2. Müller, 3. Kroos
  • Bastian Schweinsteiger : 1. Neuer, 2. Müller, 3. Neymar
• Austria
  • Walter Kowatsch-Schwarz (freelance journalist): 1st Messi, 2nd Cristiano Ronaldo, 3rd Neymar
  • Marcel Koller : 1st Cristiano Ronaldo, 2nd Hazard, 3rd De Bruyne
  • Christian Fuchs : 1. New, 2. Hazard, 3. Cristiano Ronaldo
• Switzerland
  • Christophe Cerf: 1st Messi, 2nd Cristiano Ronaldo, 3rd Lewandowski
  • Vladimir Petković : 1st Messi, 2nd Cristiano Ronaldo, 3rd Müller
  • Gökhan Inler : 1st Cristiano Ronaldo, 2nd Messi, 3rd Neymar

Further awards

World soccer player 2015: Carli Lloyd

The American Carli Lloyd from Houston Dash became world footballer in 2015 . Luis Enrique (FC Barcelona) and Jill Ellis (US national team) won the coaching elections. Wendell Lira won the FIFA Puskás Prize for the most beautiful goal . While the FIFA Presidential Award was not given this year due to the ban on FIFA President Sepp Blatter , the FIFA Fair Play Award was given to all refugee aid workers in world football. Representing took Gerald Asamoah at this price.

The FIFA / FIFPro World XI was also announced at the gala :

position	Surname	society
goal	Manuel Neuer	FC Bayern Munich
Defense	Marcelo	real Madrid
	Thiago Silva	Paris Saint-Germain
	Sergio Ramos	real Madrid
	Dani Alves	FC Barcelona
midfield	Paul Pogba	Juventus Turin
	Luka Modrić	real Madrid
	Andrés Iniesta	FC Barcelona
Storm	Lionel Messi	FC Barcelona
	Neymar	FC Barcelona
	Cristiano Ronaldo	real Madrid

Web links

• Official website
• Results of the 2015 election on fifa.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Votes of the team captains, national coaches and press of the 2015 election