1975 Ballon d'Or

1975 Ballon d'Or
1975 Ballon d'Or winner Oleg Blokhin in 1977
Date30 December 1975
Presented byFrance Football
Highlights
Won by Oleg Blokhin (1st award)
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1975 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 Soviet forward Oleg Blokhin on 30 December 1975.[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] Blokhin became the second Soviet (and the first Ukrainian) footballer who won the trophy after Lev Yashin (1963).[3]

Rankings

Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Oleg Blokhin Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union 122
2 Franz Beckenbauer Bayern Munich West Germany 42
3 Johan Cruyff Barcelona Netherlands 27
4 Berti Vogts Borussia Mönchengladbach West Germany 25
5 Sepp Maier Bayern Munich West Germany 20
6 Ruud Geels Ajax Netherlands 18
7 Jupp Heynckes Borussia Mönchengladbach West Germany 17
8 Paul Breitner Real Madrid West Germany 14
9 Colin Todd Derby County England 12
10 Dudu Georgescu Dinamo București Romania 11
11 Peter Lorimer Leeds United Scotland 9
Branko Oblak Schalke 04 Yugoslavia
Pirri Real Madrid Spain
14 Ralf Edström PSV Eindhoven Sweden 6
Günter Netzer Real Madrid West Germany
Dino Zoff Juventus Italy
17 Hristo Bonev Lokomotiv Plovdiv Bulgaria 4
Josip Katalinski Nice Yugoslavia
Grzegorz Lato Stal Mielec Poland
Gerd Müller Bayern Munich West Germany
Ivo Viktor Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia
22 Ján Pivarník Slovan Bratislava Czechoslovakia 3
23 Leonid Buryak Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union 2
Jürgen Croy Sachsenring Zwickau East Germany
Johan Neeskens Barcelona Netherlands
Jean-Marc Guillou Nice France
27 João Alves Boavista Portugal 1
Dragan Džajić Bastia Yugoslavia
Giacinto Facchetti Internazionale Italy
Don Givens Queens Park Rangers Republic of Ireland
Pat Jennings Tottenham Hotspur Northern Ireland
Allan Simonsen Borussia Mönchengladbach Denmark

References

  1. ^ "Palmarès Ballon d'Or – 1975 – Oleg Blokhine". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  2. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1975". RSSSF. 1 May 2005. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 1 April 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.