1963 Ballon d'Or
1963 Ballon d'Or | |
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Date | 17 December 1963 |
Location | Paris, France |
Presented by | France Football |
Highlights | |
Won by | Lev Yashin (1st award) |
Website | francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or |
The 1963 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 Lev Yashin on 17 December 1963.[1] He was the first, and as of 2024, the only goalkeeper to win this award. He also became the first Soviet and Russian national to win the award.[2][3]
Rankings
Rank | Name | Club(s) | Nationality | Points |
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1 | Lev Yashin | Dynamo Moscow | Soviet Union | 73 |
2 | Gianni Rivera | Milan |
Italy | 55 |
3 | Jimmy Greaves | Tottenham Hotspur | England | 50 |
4 | Denis Law | Manchester United | Scotland | 45 |
5 | Eusébio | Benfica | Portugal | 19 |
6 | Karl-Heinz Schnellinger | Mantova |
West Germany | 16 |
7 | Uwe Seeler | Hamburger SV | West Germany | 9 |
8 | Bobby Charlton | Manchester United | England | 5 |
Luis Suárez | Inter Milan | Spain | ||
Giovanni Trapattoni | Milan |
Italy | ||
11 | José Altafini | Milan |
Brazil | 4 |
Paul Van Himst | Anderlecht | Belgium | ||
13 | Flórián Albert | Ferencváros | Hungary | 3 |
Harry Bild | IFK Norrköping | Sweden | ||
Josef Masopust | Dukla Prague | Czechoslovakia | ||
Omar Sívori | Juventus | Argentina | ||
17 | Robert Herbin | Saint-Étienne | France | 2 |
Jef Jurion |
Anderlecht | Belgium | ||
Cesare Maldini | Milan |
Italy | ||
Károly Sándor | MTK Budapest |
Hungary | ||
21 | Mário Coluna | Benfica | Portugal | 1 |
Ake Johansson |
IFK Norrköping | Sweden | ||
Manfred Kaiser | Wismut Aue | East Germany | ||
Metin Oktay | Galatasaray | Turkey | ||
Svatopluk Pluskal | Dukla Prague | Czechoslovakia |
References
- ^ Pierrend, José (1 February 2006). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1963". RSSSF.
- ^ Reno, Bill (May 12, 2015) Why a Goalkeeper Will Never Win Another Ballon d'Or. Paster Magazine.
- ^ European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1963. rsssf.org