1989 Ballon d'Or

1989 Ballon d'Or
1989 Ballon d'Or winner Marco van Basten
Date	26 December 1989
Presented by	France Football
Website	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or
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The 1989 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 Marco van Basten on 26 December 1989.^[1] There were 27 voters, from Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Van Basten was awarded to Ballon d'Or for the second time.

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Marco van Basten	AC Milan	Netherlands	119
2	Franco Baresi	Milan	Italy	80
3	Frank Rijkaard	Milan	Netherlands	43
4	Lothar Matthäus	Internazionale	West Germany	24
5	Peter Shilton	Derby County	England	22
6	Dragan Stojković	Red Star Belgrade	Yugoslavia	19
7	Ruud Gullit	Milan	Netherlands	16
8	Gheorghe Hagi	Steaua București	Romania	11
	Jürgen Klinsmann	Internazionale	West Germany	11
10	Jean-Pierre Papin	Marseille	France	10
	Michel Preud'homme	Mechelen	Belgium	10
12	Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko	Dynamo Kyiv	Soviet Union	6
13	Míchel	Real Madrid	Spain	5
14	Andreas Brehme	Internazionale	West Germany	3
	Paulo Futre	Atlético Madrid	Portugal	3
	Karl-Heinz Riedle	Werder Bremen	West Germany	3
17	John Barnes	Liverpool	England	2
	Packie Bonner	Celtic	Republic of Ireland	2
	Glenn Hysén	Liverpool	Sweden	2
	Oleh Kuznetsov	Dynamo Kyiv	Soviet Union	2
	Andreas Möller	Borussia Dortmund	West Germany	2
	Julio Salinas	Barcelona	Spain	2
23	Thomas Häßler	1. FC Köln	West Germany	1
	Ronald Koeman	Barcelona	Netherlands	1
	Robby Langers	Nice	Luxembourg	1
	Gary Lineker	Tottenham Hotspur	England	1
	Paolo Maldini	Milan	Italy	1
	Theo Snelders	Aberdeen	Netherlands	1
	Gianluca Vialli	Sampdoria	Italy	1
	Oleksandr Zavarov	Juventus	Soviet Union	1

France Football awarded Alfredo Di Stéfano with the Super Ballon d'Or as the Argentinian legend came out on top beating Johan Cruyff and Michel Platini in the vote. All the previous winners of the award since 1956 were considered eligible for the nomination.

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