Find out the list of Ballon d’Or winners and how the ranking of players with the most trophies looks.
Getting the Ballon d’Or is something any footballer dreams of. It’s a award full of prestige and recognition. It means being part of the history of this sport and having your name recorded alongside other great legends.
Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Luka Modric, Zinedine Zidane, Michel Platini and Johan Cruyff are some of the players who have at least one Ballon d’Or in its showcases.
This Monday, October 28, the list of the best players in the world expands. While waiting to meet the winner of this 2024, we review How is the record and which footballers have the most trophies?.
Ballon d’Or honors
The Ballon d’Or is an award created by the French magazine ‘France Football’ for recognize the best player of the season. To do this, aspects such as their individual performance, the titles achieved in the last year, their role in the most important matches and, ultimately, having been a true reference in this sport are taken into account.
The first trophy was awarded in 1956 and the winner was the Englishman Stanley Matthews. Over the years this list has grown. This is what the record looks like today.
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Leo Messi: 8 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023)
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Cristiano Ronaldo: 5 (2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)
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Johan Cruyff:3 (1971, 1973, 1974)
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Michel Platini: 3 (1983, 1984, 1985)
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Marco Van Basten:3 (1988, 1989, 1992)
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Alfredo Di Stefano:2 (1957, 1959)
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Franz Beckenbauer:2 (1972, 1976)
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Kevin Keegan:2 (1978, 1979)
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Karl-Heinz Rummenigge:2 (1980, 1981)
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Ronaldo Nazário:2 (1997, 2002)
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Stanley Matthews:1 (1956)
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Raymond Kopa:1 (1958)
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Luis Suarez:1 (1960)
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Omar Sivori:1 (1961)
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Josef Masopust:1 (1962)
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Lev Yashin:1 (1963)
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Denis Law:1 (1964)
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Eusebio:1 (1965)
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Bobby Charlton:1 (1966)
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Florian Albert:1 (1967)
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Gianni Rivera:1 (1969)
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Oleg Blokhin:1 (1975)
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Allan Simonsen:1 (1977)
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Paolo Rossi:1 (1982)
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Igor Belanov:1 (1986)
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Ruud Gullit:1 (1987)
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Lothar Matthaus:1 (1990)
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Jean-Pierre Papin:1 (1991)
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Roberto Baggio:1 (1993)
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Hristo Stoichkov:1 (1994)
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George Weah:1 (1995)
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Matthias Sammer:1 (1996)
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Zinedine Zidane:1 (1998)
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Rivaldo:1 (1999)
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Luis Figo:1 (2000)
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Michael Owen:1 (2001)
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Pavel Nedved:1 (2003)
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Andriy Shevchenko:1 (2004)
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Ronaldinho:1 (2005)
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Fabio Cannavaro:1 (2006)
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Kaka:1 (2007)
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Modric:1 (2018)
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Benzema: 1 (2022)
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