1981 Ballon d'Or

1981 Ballon d'Or
1981 Ballon d'Or winner Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in 1982
Date29 December 1981
Presented byFrance Football
Highlights
Won by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (2nd award)
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1981 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 29 December 1981. [1][2]

This was Rummenigge's second win in succession.

Rankings

Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Bayern Munich West Germany 106
2 Paul Breitner Bayern Munich West Germany 64
3 Bernd Schuster Barcelona West Germany 39
4 Michel Platini Saint-Étienne France 36
5 Oleg Blokhin Dinamo Kyiv Soviet Union 14
6 Dino Zoff Juventus Italy 13
7 Ramaz Shengelia Dinamo Tbilisi Soviet Union 10
8 Alexsandr Chivadze Dinamo Tbilisi Soviet Union 9
9 Liam Brady Juventus Republic of Ireland 7
John Wark Ipswich Town Scotland
11 David Kipiani Dinamo Tbilisi Soviet Union 6
András Törőcsik Újpest Hungary
Zbigniew Boniek Widzew Łódź Poland
Maxime Bossis Nantes France
Bruno Pezzey Eintracht Frankfurt Austria
16 Horst Hrubesch Hamburger SV West Germany 5
Ruud Krol Napoli Netherlands
Vladimir Petrović Red Star Belgrade Yugoslavia
19 Zlatko Vujovic Hajduk Split Yugoslavia 4
Trevor Brooking West Ham United England
21 Giancarlo Antognoni Fiorentina Italy 3
Jan Ceulemans Club Brugge Belgium
Kenny Dalglish Liverpool Scotland
Bryan Robson Manchester United England
Frank Stapleton Manchester United Ireland
Wilfried Van Moer Beveren Belgium
Luis Arconada Real Sociedad Spain
28 Grzegorz Lato Lokeren Poland 2
Tibor Nyilasi Ferencváros Hungary
Wlodzimierz Smolarek Widzew Łódź Poland
Frans Thijssen Ipswich Town Netherlands
32 António Oliveira Sporting CP Portugal 1
Uli Stielike Real Madrid West Germany
Jesús Zamora Real Sociedad Spain

References

  1. ^ "Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1981 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  2. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1981". RSSSF. 1 May 2005. Retrieved 6 July 2020.