Ballon d'Or
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The "Ballon d'Or" (French for "Golden Ball") is an association football award, created in 1956 by the French football magazine France Football. Until 2007 it was usually known in English as the European Footballer of the Year award. Ballon d'Or is widely regarded as one of the two most prestigious individual award in football (The other being the more recent FIFA World Player of the Year).[citation needed]
The award is given annually to the player considered to have performed the best over the previous year. Prior to 2007, the player had to be a member of a club based within UEFA's jurisdiction, in order to qualify for selection. Until 1995, a player also had to be of European nationality to be eligible. From 1995 to 2006 any player from a European club was eligible, regardless of his nationality. In October 2007 France Football announced that their new list of nominees includes players from around the globe, regardless of the league they play in.
Voting for the award is undertaken by a group of football journalists. Each voter chooses five players from the list of 50 nominees established by France Football, and awards them one, two, three, four and five points. The winner is determined by the total number of points. Players who finish second and third in the voting are awarded silver and bronze medals.
Only three players have managed to win the award three times, namely Johan Cruyff of the Netherlands, Ajax and Barcelona, Marco van Basten of the Netherlands and Milan and Michel Platini of France and Juventus (Ronaldo missed the award by a single point in 1996, robbing him of this honour). Cruyff and Franz Beckenbauer hold the record of receiving votes from the jury for the longest consecutive number of years (12 years) - a testament to their consistency at the highest level.
2007 nominees included two players from non-European clubs who benefited from the expansion: Brazilian Rogério Ceni, player for São Paulo, and Iraqi Younis Mahmoud, player of Qatar's Alghrafa. Other nominees included Mexico's Guillermo Ochoa (Club de Futbol América), Brazilians Daniel Alves (Sevilla), Diego (Werder Bremen), Kaká (Milan), Robinho (Real Madrid) and Ronaldinho (Barcelona), and three Argentineans: Manchester United's Carlos Tevez, Boca Juniors' Riquelme, and Barcelona's Lionel Messi. The winner Kaká was announced on December 2. Voting for the award is undertaken by a group of 96 football journalists, out of which, for the first time, only 53 were Europeans. Each voter chooses five players from the list of nominees, and awards them one, two, three, four and five points.
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[edit] Recipients
Ballon d'Or recipients are indicated in bold, as well as the clubs they played for in the season when they won the award.
[edit] Wins
[edit] By player
[edit] By country
* Di Stefano and Sivori were Argentine players but they acquired Spanish and Italian citizenships respectively.
[edit] By club
Clubs are ranked according to the number of Ballon d'Or awards their players won while they were playing for the club. Clubs that Ballon d'Or winners played for during the first part of the year only are not included.
* Player was a member of the club for only the second part of the year.
[edit] By league
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Juventus FC (1961, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1993, 1998, 2003) AC Milan (1969, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2004, 2007) FC Internazionale Milano (1990, 1997) |
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Real Madrid (1957, 1958, 1959, 2000, 2002, 2006) FC Barcelona (1960, 1973, 1974, 1994, 1999, 2005) |
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FC Bayern Munich (1970, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1981) Hamburger SV (1978, 1979) Borussia Mönchengladbach (1977) BV Borussia Dortmund (1996) |
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Manchester United FC (1964, 1966, 1968) Blackpool FC (1956) Liverpool FC (2001) |
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FC Dynamo Kyiv (1975, 1986) FC Dynamo Moscow (1963) |
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Dukla Prague (1962) |
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SL Benfica (1965) |
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Ferencváros Budapest (1967) |
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AFC Ajax (1971) |
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Olympique Marseille (1991) |
[edit] Medal count
[edit] By player
Players who won at least two medals.
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| 1. | Michel Platini |
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| 2. | Johan Cruyff |
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| 3. | Marco van Basten |
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| 4. | Franz Beckenbauer |
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| 5. |  Ronaldo |
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| 6= |  Alfredo Di Stéfano |
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| 6= | Kevin Keegan |
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| 6= | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge |
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| 9. | Luis Suárez |
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| 10= | Bobby Charlton |
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| 10= | Eusébio |
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| 12= | Raymond Kopa |
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| 12= | Gerd Müller |
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| 14. | Zinedine Zidane |
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| 15= | Roberto Baggio |
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| 15= | Ruud Gullit |
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| 15= | Lothar Matthäus |
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| 15= | Gianni Rivera |
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| 15= |  Hristo Stoichkov |
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| 20. |  Andriy Shevchenko |
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| 21= |  George Best |
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| 21= | Ronaldinho |
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| 21= |  Allan Simonsen |
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| 24. | Bernd Schuster |
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| 25= | Dennis Bergkamp |
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| 25= | Preben Elkjær Larsen |
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| 25= | Thierry Henry |
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| 25= | Rob Rensenbrink |
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| 25= | Luigi Riva |
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| 30= | Emilio Butragueño |
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| 30= | Oliver Kahn |
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| 30= | Paolo Maldini |
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| 30= | Frank Rijkaard |
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[edit] By country
| Pos. | Country | G | S | B | tot |
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| 1. | Germany |
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| 2. | Netherlands |
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| 3. | France |
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| 4. | Italy |
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| 5. | England |
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| 6. | Brazil |
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| 7. | Spain |
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| 8. | Soviet Union |
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| 9. | Portugal |
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| 10. | Denmark |
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| 11. |  Scotland |
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| 12= | Bulgaria |
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| 12= | Hungary |
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| 14. | Ukraine |
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| 15= | Czechoslovakia |
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| 15= | Northern Ireland |
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| 17= |  Czech Republic |
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| 17= |  Liberia |
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| 19. |  Yugoslavia |
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| 20= |  Austria |
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| 20= |  Croatia |
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| 22. |  Poland |
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| 23= | Argentina |
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| 23= |  Finland |
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| 23= |  Wales |
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[edit] By club
[edit] By league
| Pos. | League | G | S | B | tot |
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| 1. | Italy |
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| 2. | Spain |
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| 3. | Germany |
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| 4. | England |
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| 6. | France |
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| 7. | Portugal |
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| 10. | Hungary |
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| 11. | Yugoslavia |
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| 13= | Denmark |
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| 13= | Poland |
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| 13= | Scotland |
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[edit] See also
- FIFA World Player of the Year
- European Golden Boot
- Onze Mondial European Footballer of the Year
- World Soccer Player of the Year
