Ballon d’Or Winners l: Messi, Ronaldo and every award recipient from 1956 to 2024 | Football News
Ballon d’Or 2024: The 68th edition of the iconic Ballon d’Or award will be presented France Football at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris on Monday evening.
Started in the year 1956, the Ballon d’Or represents the highest individual prize in world football and is being conducted France Football in collaboration with the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for the first time this season.
Argentine superstar Lionel Messi has won the award a record eight times. Messi is followed his long-time European club football rival, Criano Ronaldo, who bagged the award five times between 2008 and 2017 while receiving a record 18 nominations since 2003.
Prior to the Messi-Ronaldo domination, only three other players – Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff and Marco van Basten – had lifted the Ballon d’Or thrice in their careers.
While Ronaldo and Messi have missed the cut for the 2024 Ballon d’Or for the first time in over two decades, Real Madrid and Brazil winger Vinicus Jr. has been marked as the hot favourite to claim the award for the 2023-24 season.
Ballon d’Or winners l
Year
Player
Nationality
Club
1956
Stanley Matthews
England
Blackpool
1957
Alfredo Di Stefano
Argentina/Spain
Real Madrid
1958
Raymond Kopa
France
Real Madrid
1959
Alfredo Di Stefano
Argentina/Spain
Real Madrid
1960
Luis Suárez
Spain
Barcelona
1961
Omar Sivori
Italy
Juventus
1962
Josef Masopust
Czechoslovakia
Dukla Prague
1963
Lev Yashin
Soviet Union
Dynamo Moscow
1964
Denis Law
England
Manchester United
1965
Eusébio
Portugal
Benfica
1966
Bob Charlton
England
Manchester United
1967
Flórián Albert
Hungary
Ferencváros
1968
George Best
Northern Ireland
Manchester United
1969
Gianni Rivera
Italy
Milan
1970
Gerd Müller
West Germany
Bayern Munich
1971
Johan Cruyff
Netherlands
Ajax
1972
Franz Beckenbauer
West Germany
Bayern Munich
1973
Johan Cruyff
Netherlands
Barcelona
1974
Johan Cruyff
Netherlands
Barcelona
1975
Oleg Blokhin
Soviet Union
Dynamo Kyiv
1976
Franz Beckenbauer
West Germany
Bayern Munich
1977
Allan Simonsen
Denmark
Borussia Mönchengladbach
1978
Kevin Keegan
England
Hamburger SV
1979
Kevin Keegan
England
Hamburger SV
1980
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
West Germany
Bayern Munich
1981
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
West Germany
Bayern Munich
1982
Paolo Rossi
Italy
Juventus
1983
Michel Platini
France
Juventus
1984
Michel Platini
France
Juventus
1985
Michel Platini
France
Juventus
1986
Igor Belanov
Soviet Union
Dynamo Kyiv
1987
Ruud Gullit
Netherlands
Milan
1988
Marco van Basten
Netherlands
Milan
1989
Marco van Basten
Netherlands
Inter Milan
1990
Lothar Matthäus
Germany
Inter Milan
1991
Jean-Pierre Papin
France
Marselle
1992
Marco van Basten
Netherlands
Inter Milan
1993
Roberto Baggio
Italy
Juventus
1994
Hro Stoichkov
Bulgaria
Barcelona
1995
George Weah
Liberia
Milan
1996
Matthias Sammer
Germany
Borussia Dortmund
1997
Ronaldo
Brazil
Inter Milan
1998
Zinedine Zidane
France
Juventus
1999
Rivaldo
Brazil
Barcelona
2000
Luís Figo
Portugal
Real Madrid
2001
Michael Owen
England
Liverpool
2002
Ronaldo
Brazil
Real Madrid
2003
Pavel Nedvěd
Czechia
Juventus
2004
Andriy Shevchenko
Ukraine
Milan
2005
Ronaldinho
Brazil
Barcelona
2006
Fabio Cannavaro
Italy
Real Madrid
2007
Kaká
Brazil
Milan
2008
Criano Ronaldo
Portugal
Manchester United
2009
Lionel Messi
Argentina
Barcelona
2010
Lionel Messi
Argentina
Barcelona
2011
Lionel Messi
Argentina
Barcelona
2012
Lionel Messi
Argentina
Barcelona
2013
Criano Ronaldo
Portugal
Real Madrid
2014
Criano Ronaldo
Portugal
Real Madrid
2015
Lionel Messi
Argentina
Barcelona
2016
Criano Ronaldo
Portugal
Real Madrid
2017
Criano Ronaldo
Portugal
Real Madrid
2018
Luka Modric
Croatia
Real Madrid
2019
Lionel Messi
Argentina
Barcelona
2020
Not awarded
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2021
Lionel Messi
Argentina
Paris-Saint Germain
2022
Karim Benzema
France
Real Madrid
2023
Lionel Messi
Argentina
Inter Miami
2024
TBA
