1969 Ballon d'Or

1969 Ballon d'Or
1969 Ballon d'Or winner Gianni Rivera
Date23 December 1969
LocationParis, France
Presented byFrance Football
Highlights
Won byItaly Gianni Rivera (1st award)
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or
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The 1969 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to the Italian midfielder Gianni Rivera (Milan) on 23 December 1969.[1] There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.[2] Rivera became the second Italian to win the award, after Omar Sívori in 1961. He was also the first Milan player to win the trophy.[3]

Rankings

Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Gianni Rivera Italy Milan  Italy 83
2 Gigi Riva Italy Cagliari  Italy 79
3 Gerd Müller Germany Bayern Munich  West Germany 38
4 Johan Cruyff Netherlands Ajax  Netherlands 30
Ove Kindvall Netherlands Feyenoord  Sweden
6 George Best England Manchester United  Northern Ireland 21
7 Franz Beckenbauer Germany Bayern Munich  West Germany 18
8 Pierino Prati Italy Milan  Italy 17
9 Petar Zhekov Bulgaria CSKA Sofia  Bulgaria 14
10 Jack Charlton England Leeds United  England 10
11 Albert Shesternyov Soviet Union CSKA Moscow  Soviet Union 8
12 Dragan Džajić Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade  Yugoslavia 6
13 Francis Lee England Manchester City  England 4
Martin Peters England West Ham United  England
15 Jozef Adamec Czechoslovakia Spartak Trnava  Czechoslovakia 3
Bobby Charlton England Manchester United  England
Angelo Sormani Italy Milan  Italy
18 Ferenc Bene Hungary Újpest  Hungary 2
Andrej Kvašňák Belgium KRC Mechelen  Czechoslovakia
Louis Pilot Belgium Standard Liège  Luxembourg
Giorgos Sideris Greece Olympiacos  Greece
Manuel Velázquez Spain Real Madrid  Spain
23 Billy Bremner England Leeds United  Scotland 1
Kazimierz Deyna Poland Legia Warsaw  Poland
Mimis Domazos Greece Panathinaikos  Greece
Gilbert Gress Germany VfB Stuttgart  France
Jimmy Johnstone Scotland Celtic  Scotland
Włodzimierz Lubański Poland Górnik Zabrze  Poland
Vladimir Muntyan Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv  Soviet Union
Wilfried Van Moer Belgium Standard Liège  Belgium
Ivo Viktor Czechoslovakia Dukla Prague  Czechoslovakia

References

  1. ^ "1969 – Gianni Rivera". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  2. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1969". RSSSF. 22 June 2005. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  3. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF. 21 January 2011. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2015.