1980 Ballon d'Or

1980 Ballon d'Or
1980 Ballon d'Or winner Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in 1982
Date30 December 1980
Presented byFrance Football
Highlights
Won by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1st award)
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1980 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 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on 30 December 1980.[1]

Rummenigge was the third (West) German national to win the award after Gerd Müller in 1970 and Franz Beckenbauer in 1972 and 1976. After these two players, Rummenigge was also the third Bayern Munich player to win the trophy.[2]

Rankings

Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Bayern Munich West Germany 122
2 Bernd Schuster Barcelona West Germany 34
3 Michel Platini Saint-Étienne France 33
4 Wilfried Van Moer Beveren Belgium 27
5 Jan Ceulemans Club Brugge Belgium 20
6 Horst Hrubesch Hamburger SV West Germany 18
7 Herbert Prohaska[notes 1] Internazionale Austria 14
8 Hansi Müller VfB Stuttgart West Germany 11
Liam Brady Juventus Republic of Ireland 11
10 Manfred Kaltz Hamburger SV West Germany 10
11 Erwin Vandenbergh Lierse Belgium 9
Luis Arconada Real Sociedad Spain 9
Dino Zoff Juventus Italy 9
14 Kenny Dalglish Liverpool Scotland 5
Bruno Pezzey[notes 2] Eintracht Frankfurt Austria 5
16 Terry McDermott Liverpool England 4
Viv Anderson Nottingham Forest England 4
Ruud Krol Napoli Netherlands 4
Francesco Graziani Torino Italy 4
20 Ladislav Vízek Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia 3
Manuel Bento Benfica Portugal 3
22 Frank Arnesen Ajax Denmark 2
Antonín Panenka Bohemians 1905 Czechoslovakia 2
David O'Leary Arsenal Republic of Ireland 2
Vladimir Petrović Red Star Belgrade SFR Yugoslavia 2
Zbigniew Boniek Widzew Łódź Poland 2
27 Giancarlo Antognoni Fiorentina Italy 1
Alessandro Altobelli Internazionale Italy 1
Marcel Răducanu Steaua București Romania 1
Trevor Francis Nottingham Forest England 1
Zdeněk Nehoda Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia 1
Peter Shilton Nottingham Forest England 1

Notes

  1. ^ France Football reports Prohaska with 16 points.
  2. ^ France Football reports Pezzey with 3 points.

References

  1. ^ Pierrend, José Luis (1 May 2005). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1980". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  2. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF. 18 December 2008. Archived from the original on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2008.