1988 Ballon d'Or

1988 Ballon d'Or
1988 Ballon d'Or winner Marco van Basten
Date27 December 1988
Presented byFrance Football
Highlights
Won by Marco Van Basten (1st award)
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1988 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 27 December 1988.[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 the third Dutch national to win the award after Johan Cruyff (1971, 1973, 1974) and Ruud Gullit (1987).

Rankings

Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Marco van Basten Milan Netherlands 129
2 Ruud Gullit Milan Netherlands 88
3 Frank Rijkaard Milan Netherlands 45
4 Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union 41
5 Ronald Koeman PSV Eindhoven Netherlands 39
6 Lothar Matthäus Internazionale West Germany 10
7 Gianluca Vialli Sampdoria Italy 7
8 Franco Baresi Milan Italy 5
Jürgen Klinsmann VfB Stuttgart West Germany 5
Oleksandr Zavarov Juventus Soviet Union 5
11 Tanju Çolak Galatasaray Turkey 4
Oleh Kuznetsov Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union 4
13 Rinat Dasayev Sevilla Soviet Union 3
Anatoliy Demyanenko Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union 3
Glenn Hysén Fiorentina Sweden 3
Míchel Real Madrid Spain 3
17 Flemming Povlsen 1. FC Köln Denmark 2
Michel Preud'homme Mechelen Belgium 2
Walter Zenga Internazionale Italy 2
20 Gheorghe Hagi Steaua București Romania 1
Roberto Mancini Sampdoria Italy 1
Dejan Savićević Red Star Belgrade Yugoslavia 1
Neville Southall Everton Wales 1
Dragan Stojković Red Star Belgrade Yugoslavia 1

References

  1. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1988". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 26 March 2005.
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