List of FIFA Ballon d’Or Award Winners (Since 1956 to 2015)

FIFA Ballon d’Or is the highest level achievement for a footballer which provide by a jury board organized by FIFA in every year. A Ballon d’Or Award winner also mentioned as the best soccer player of the year. This procedure of Ballon d’Or award started from the year 1956 where any European nation footballer took chance to win this award. Actually, it was limited on Europe on that time and in that case a Ballon d’Or winner would be call the best player of the year from Europe. But from the year 1995, the organizer committee elected to give this award to any footballer as well those are playing in European clubs. From the year 2009, it became more big and FIFA directly involve and took the decision to give this award to the best footballer around the world. Though most of the superstar players play in Spanish, German, English, Italian & Portuguese clubs and ultimately all award goes to European club playing footballers.

Jury Board & selection procedure:

170 national team captain, coach & a special journalist can able to provide vote for the Ballon d’Or award nominees and FIFA make a shortlist of best 3 footballer and finally around 500 people (170 National team captain, 170 National team coach & 170 special journalist from 170 nation) choice help FIFA to pick the “Best footballer of the year”.

In the year 2015, Argentine Barcelona striker Lionel Messi won the award of FIFA Ballon d’Or which is the 5^th achievement of him and still now the highest amount of Ballon d’Or winner.

Now take a look into the list of all year Ballon d’Or award winner from the year 1956 to 2015.

FIFA BALLON D’OR WINNERS (1956 – 2015)

Year	Player	Club	Nationality
2015	Lionel Messi	FC Barcelona	Argentina
2014	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	Portugal
2013	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	Portugal
2012	Lionel Messi	FC Barceona	Argentina
2011	Lionel Messi	FC Barcelona	Argentina
2010	Lionel Messi	FC Barcelona	Argentina
2009	Lionel Messi	FC Barcelona	Argentina
2008	Cristiano Ronaldo	Manchester United	Portugal
2007	Kaka	AC Milan	Brazil
2006	Fabio Cannvaro	Juventus/Real Madrid	Italy
2005	Ronaldinho	FC Barcelona	Brazil
2004	Andriy Shevchenko	AC Milan	Ukraine
2003	Pavel Nedved	AC Milan	Juventus
2002	Ronaldo	Real Madrid	Brazil
2001	Michael Owen	FC Liverpool	England
2000	Luis Figo	Real Madrid	Portugal
1999	Rivaldo	FC Barcelona	Brazil
1998	Zinedine Zidane	Juventus	France
1997	Ronaldo	Inter Milan	Brazil
1996	Matthias Sammer	Borussia Dortmund	Germany
1995	George Weah	AC Milan	Liberia
1994	Hristo Stoichkov	FC Barcelona	Bulgaria
1993	Roberto Baggio	Juventus	Italy
1992	Marco Van Basten	AC Milan	Netherlands
1991	Jean Pierre Papin	Marseille	France
1990	Lothar Matthaus	Inter Milan	Germany
1989	Marco Van Basten	AC Milan	Netherlands
1988	Marco Van Basten	AC Milan	Netherlands
1987	Ruud Gullit	AC Milan	Netherlands
1986	Igor Belanov	Soviet Union	Dynamo Kyiv
1985	Michel Platini	Juventus	France
1984	Michel Platini	Juventus	France
1983	Michel Platini	Juventus	France
1982	Paolo Rossi	Juventus	Italy
1981	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Bayern Munich	Germany
1980	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Bayern Munich	Germany
1979	Kevin Keegan	Hamburg	England
1978	Kevin Keegan	Hamburg	England
1977	Allan Simonsen	Borussia Monchengladbach	Denmark
1976	Franz Beckenbauer	Bayern Munich	Germany
1975	Oleg Blokhin	Soviet Union	Dynamo Kyiv
1974	Johan Cruyff	FC Barcelona	Netherlands
1973	Johan Cruyff	FC Barcelona	Netherlands
1972	Franz Beckenbauer	Bayern Munich	Germany
1971	Johan Cruyff	FC Barcelona	Netherlands
1970	Gerd Muller	Bayer Munich	Germany
1969	Gianni Rivera	AC Milan	Italy
1968	George Best	Manchester United	Northern Ireland
1967	Florian Albert	Ferencv Rosi TC	Hungary
1966	Bobby Chalton	Manchester United	England
1965	Eusebio	Benfica	Portugal
1964	Denis Law	Manchester United	Scotland
1963	Lev Yashin	Soviet Union	Dynamo Moscow
1962	Josef Masopust	Dukla Prague	Czechoslovakia
1961	Omar Sivori	Juventus	Italy
1960	Luis Suarez	FC Barcelona	Spain
1959	Alfredo Di Stefano	Real Madrid	Spain
1958	Raymond Kopa	Real Madrid	France
1957	Alfredo Di Stefano	Real Madrid	Spain
1956	Stanley Matthews	Blackpool	England

Actually, this award FIFA Ballon d’Or is the dream of a footballer. Once upon a time when Lionel Messi were a child and played well in Under 13 club of Barcelona, media people asked him that what is his aim in life where he was simply answered that he wants to win Ballon d’Or. This is mention that how much important award for footballer, Ballon d’Or is and this honor also encouraged every players around the world.

A video of 2015 FIFA Ballon d’Or Award giving ceremony:

Another short list of Players who won Ballon d’Or multiple times –

1. Lionel Messi (ARG) – 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015
2. Michel Platini (FRA) – 1983, 1984, 1985
3. Marco Van Basten (NED) – 1988, 1989, 1992
4. Johan Cruyff (NED) – 1971, 1973, 1974
5. Cristiano Ronaldo (POR) – 2008, 2013, 2014
6. Franz Beckenbauer (GER) – 1972, 1976
7. Ronaldo (BRA) – 1997, 2002
8. Alfredo Di Stefano (ESP) – 1957, 1959
9. Kevin Keegan (ENG) – 1978, 1979
10. Karl Heinz Rummenigge (GER) – 1980, 1981