Ballon d'Or
The Ballon d'Or ( French for “golden ball”) is a prize awarded by the French football magazine France Football to the best male football players of the respective calendar year since 1956 . Originally only intended for European (from 1995 also non-European) players from European clubs, the award was also known as European Footballer of the Year .
Since all players worldwide can be elected since 2007, the award now honors the best player in the world or the world footballer of the year . Compared to the FIFA awarded official award for the FIFA World Player of the Year is regarded Ballon d'Or as the more prestigious ceremony, but was up to the introduction of choice for UEFA Best Player in Europe often continue as European Footballer of the Year , respectively.
From 2010 to 2015, the prize was no longer awarded in the traditional form, but France Football and FIFA created the joint FIFA Ballon d'Or award ; Since 2016, the French magazine has once again organized the award of the Ballon d'Or under sole control.
In 2011, UEFA also introduced the UEFA Player of the Year award to revive the tradition of being voted Europe's Footballer of the Year .
For the first time in 2018, France Football also presented an award for the world's best female soccer player , the Ballon d'Or féminin . In addition, the Kopa trophy (Trophée Kopa) has been awarded to the best U21 player since 2018 . In 2019, the Yashin Trophy (Trophée Yashin) for the World Goalkeeper of the Year was introduced, which is the third relevant award of its kind, alongside the choice of the IFFHS and the FIFA World Goalkeeper .
In July 2020, France Football announced that it would not be awarding the 2020 award for the first time due to the lack of equal opportunities for potential candidates due to the Covid-19 pandemic . On July 30, 2020, FIFA announced again that it would reconsider this decision and examine possible award scenarios.
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The Ballon d'Or award goes back to France Football's editor -in- chief Gabriel Hanot , who asked his European colleagues to vote for a footballer of the year in 1956. The first winner in 1956 was Stanley Matthews from England, from Blackpool FC , and at the age of 41 he is also the oldest winner.
Originally, journalists were only allowed to vote for European players who also played for European clubs. From 1995 all football players who play for a European club could be elected. In the same year, the Liberian George Weah was the first non-European to receive an award. After that, until the last award in 2009, most of the winners (5) came from Brazil . From 2007 all football players could be elected regardless of their nationality and the league in which they play. But even after that, only players from European clubs were elected.
The most successful players until 2012 were the Dutch Johan Cruyff and Marco van Basten , the French Michel Platini and the Argentine Lionel Messi , each with three awards. From 2012 Messi was initially the sole record holder until the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo drew level with him in 2017. Between 2008 and 2017, the award went to either Messi or Ronaldo, each of whom received a total of five awards. Since 2019 Lionel Messi has been the sole record holder again with six awards.
Messi was the only player to be honored four times in a row (2009 to 2012). Four other players were each awarded twice, including the Germans Franz Beckenbauer and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge . When it comes to the nationalities of the players, Germans and Dutch lead with seven titles each. The most successful club is FC Barcelona , which presented the winner 14 times. Juventus Turin (1982–1985) and FC Barcelona (2009–2012) presented the winner four times in a row.
Players from the same association made it into the top three three times: 1972 (Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller and Günter Netzer ) and 1981 (Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Paul Breitner and Bernd Schuster ) each from Germany, and in 1988 the Dutch Marco van Basten and Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard . The latter also all played for AC Milan , which in 1989 again managed to take the top three places with Marco van Basten, Franco Baresi and Frank Rijkaard.
Lev Yashin was the only goalkeeper to be awarded the Ballon d'Or in 1963 . Lionel Messi was the first Argentine to win the award. Messi received 473 of a possible 480 points for the year 2009 and came closer to the maximum number of points than any other player before.
The Ballon d'Or winner has also been voted World Footballer of the Year 13 times.
Allocation mode
The prize was awarded by a jury made up of a sports journalist from each of the 53 member associations of UEFA and 53 jurors from the countries of those non-European associations that have participated in at least one World Cup finals. Each of them gave five players from a list given by the France Football editorial team five - since 2016: six -, four, three, two or one point. The performance of the players in the respective calendar year should be recognized.
List of award winners
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- Club : Club for which the award-winning player was active. If a player has changed clubs during the calendar year, the club leaving the club is named in first position.
- Second and Third : Players who followed to the next two ranks
- Players marked in green were named FIFA World Player of the Year that same year . Only the official world footballers of the year who have been elected since 1991 are taken into account. Players nominated and awarded the FIFA Ballon d'Or as world footballers are also shown in italics.
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Leaderboards
player
The placement of the player within this ranking is determined by the number of titles. If the number of titles is the same, they are sorted alphabetically. The FIFA Ballon d'Or elections are shown in italics.
| rank | Surname | number | Years |
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| 1 |
 Lionel Messi
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6th | 2009, 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2015 , 2019 |
| 2 |
 Cristiano Ronaldo
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5 | 2008, 2013 , 2014 , 2016, 2017 |
| 3 |
 Johan Cruyff
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3 | 1971, 1973, 1974 |
 Michel Platini
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3 | 1983, 1984, 1985 | |
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Marco van Basten
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3 | 1988, 1989, 1992 | |
| 6th |
 Franz Beckenbauer
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2 | 1972, 1976 |
.svg){kind=small} Alfredo Di Stéfano
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2 | 1957, 1959 | |
 Kevin Keegan
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2 | 1978, 1979 | |
 Ronaldo
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2 | 1997, 2002 | |
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Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
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2 | 1980, 1981 |
societies
The placement of the club within this ranking is determined by the number of titles. If the number of titles is the same, it is sorted alphabetically by place name. The FIFA Ballon d'Or elections are shown in italics.
| rank | society | number | Years |
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| 1 | FC Barcelona | 14th | 1960, 1973, 1974, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2015 , 2019 |
| 2 | real Madrid | 11 | 1957, 1958, 1959, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2013 , 2014 , 2016, 2017, 2018 |
| 3 | Juventus Turin | 9 | 1961, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2006 |
| 4th | AC Milan | 8th | 1969, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2004, 2007 |
| 5 | FC Bayern Munich | 5 | 1970, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1981 |
| 6th | Manchester United | 4th | 1964, 1966, 1968, 2008 |
| 7th | Inter Milan | 3 | 1990, 1997, 2002 |
| 8th | Ajax Amsterdam | 2 | 1971, 1973 |
| Hamburger SV | 2 | 1978, 1979 | |
| Dynamo Kiev | 2 | 1975, 1986 |
nationality
The placement of the country within this ranking is determined by the number of titles. If the number of titles is the same, they are sorted alphabetically.
| rank | country | number |
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| 1 |
Germany
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7th |
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Netherlands
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7th | |
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Portugal
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7th | |
| 4th |
Argentina
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6th |
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France
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6th | |
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Brazil
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5 |
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England
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5 | |
 Italy
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5 | |
| 9 |
 Soviet Union
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3 |
 Spain
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3 |
List of award winners
For the first time in 2018, a jury of sports journalists who work in the field of women's football selected the world's best player from a list of 15 nominees.
- Club : Club for which the excellent player was active. If a player has changed clubs during the calendar year, the club who is leaving is named in first position.
- Second and third : players who followed to the next two ranks
- Players marked in green were named FIFA World Player of the Year that same year .
| year | Surname | country | society | Second | third |
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| 2018 | Ada Hegerberg |
 Norway
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Olympique Lyon |
 Pernille Harder
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Dzsenifer Marozsán
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| 2019 | Megan Rapinoe |
 United States
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Reign FC |
Lucy bronze
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Alex Morgan
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Kopa trophy
The Kopa trophy (Trophée Kopa) named after Raymond Kopa is awarded to the best U21 player of the year. The deadline is December 31st. Only previous Ballon d'Or winners are entitled to vote. Next to the Golden Boy from Tuttosport (since 2003) it is the second relevant prize of its kind.
- Club : Club for which the award-winning player was active. If a player has changed clubs during the calendar year, the club leaving the club is named in first position.
- Second and Third : Players who followed to the next two ranks
| year | Name (year) | country | society | Second (Jhg.) | Third (Jhg.) |
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| 2018 | Kylian Mbappé (1998) |
France
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Paris Saint-Germain |
Christian Pulisic (1998) |
Justin Kluivert (1999)
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| 2019 | Matthijs de Ligt (1999) |
Netherlands
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Ajax Amsterdam / Juventus Turin |
Jadon Sancho (2000) |
João Félix (1999)
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Yashin trophy
The World Goalkeeper of the Year has been honored with the Yashin Trophy (Trophée Yashin) since 2019. In addition to the choice of the IFFHS (since 1987) and the FIFA World Goalkeeper (since 2017), it is the third relevant prize of this kind. The trophy is named after Lev Yashin , who in 1963 was the only goalkeeper to win the Ballon d'Or .
- Club : Club for which the excellent goalkeeper was active. If a goalkeeper has changed clubs during the calendar year, the club leaving the club is named in first position.
- Second and third : goalkeepers who followed in the next two ranks.
- Goalkeepers marked in green became FIFA world goalkeepers in the same year , players marked in yellow were awarded world goalkeepers by the IFFHS in the same year .
| year | Surname | country | society | Second | Third |
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| 2019 |
Brazil
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Liverpool FC |
Marc-André ter Stegen
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Ederson
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See also
Web links
- The official website for the FIFA Ballon d'Or
- Ballon d'or. In: francefootball.fr. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
- Ballon d'Or at rsssf.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Hohensee, Christoph Huber, Ulrich Matheja: Kicker Fußball-Almanach 2010 . Copress Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7679-0912-0 , pp. 708 .
- ↑ Kaka wins 2007 award . In: news.bbc.co.uk . December 1, 2008, accessed January 14, 2017.
- ↑ Ballon d'Or - Ronaldo is a world footballer for the fourth time. spiegel.de, December 13, 2017, accessed on January 23, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Ronaldo joins legendary list. In: news.bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation , December 1, 2008, accessed September 28, 2013 .
- ↑ England trio on Euro award list . In: news.bbc.co.uk . October 19, 2008, accessed January 14, 2017.
- ↑ Unity among "world footballers". In: kicker.de. Kicker-Sportmagazin , July 5, 2010, accessed on January 11, 2011 .
- ↑ France Football awards Ballon d'Or before the end of the year. In: goal.com. September 21, 2016. Retrieved September 21, 2016 .
- ↑ France Football creates the Ballon d'Or for women on September 25, 2018 at footofeminin.fr
- ^ "France Football": Ballon d'Or will not be awarded in 2020. In: kicker.de. July 20, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020 .
- ↑ After the world footballer's election was canceled: New hope for Lewandowski. July 30, 2020, accessed July 30, 2020 .
- ^ The 1990s Ballon d'Or winners. In: news.bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation, December 1, 2008, accessed September 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Kaka wins 2007 award. In: news.bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation, December 1, 2008, accessed September 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Alfredo Di Stéfano and Omar Sívori were also born in Argentina, but when they were chosen they had already acquired Spanish and Italian citizenship, and at that time only European players were awarded.
- ↑ Messi is Europe's Footballer of the Year. In: dfb.de. German Football Association , December 1, 2009, accessed on September 28, 2013 .
- ^ France Football, September 25, 2007, pp. 20-23.
- ↑ Ballon d'Or 2019: nominees, trophies, rules , kicker.de , December 2, 2019, accessed on July 30, 2020.
- ↑ Ballon d'Or 2019: Yachine Trophy: the candidates for the award , en.as.com, December 2, 2019, accessed on July 30, 2020.
