1965 Ballon d'Or explained

1965 Ballon d'Or
Date:	28 December 1965
Location:	Paris, France
Presenter:	France Football
Award1 Type:	Won by
Award1 Winner:	Eusébio (1st award)
Previous:	1964
Main:	Ballon d'Or
Next:	1966

The 1965 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 Eusébio on 28 December 1965.^{[1] [2]}

Eusébio was the first Portuguese national to win the award and still is the only Benfica player to have won it.^[3]

Rankings

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Eusébio	Benfica	Portugal	67
2	Giacinto Facchetti	Internazionale	Italy	59
3	Luis Suárez	Internazionale	Spain	45
4	Paul Van Himst	Anderlecht	Belgium	25
5	Bobby Charlton	Manchester United		19
6	Flórián Albert	Ferencváros	Hungary	14
7	Gianni Rivera	Milan	Italy	10
8	Georgi Asparuhov	Levski Sofia	Bulgaria	9
	Sandro Mazzola	Internazionale	Italy
	Valery Voronin	Torpedo Moskva
11	Denis Law	Manchester United		8
12	Karl-Heinz Schnellinger	Roma Milan		6
13	Jim Baxter	Rangers Sunderland		5
	Ferenc Puskás	Real Madrid	Spain
15	Mario Corso	Internazionale	Italy	3
	Lev Yashin	Dynamo Moscow
17	Amancio	Real Madrid	Spain	2
	Franz Beckenbauer	Bayern Munich
	Ferenc Bene	Újpest	Hungary
	Mário Coluna	Benfica	Portugal
	Milan Galić	Partizan
	Philippe Gondet	Nantes	France
	Andrej Kvašňák	Sparta Prague
	Slava Metreveli	Dinamo Tbilisi
25	Ivor Allchurch	Cardiff City Swansea Town		1
	Sigfried Held	Kickers Offenbach Borussia Dortmund
	Köbi Kuhn	Zürich	Switzerland

External links

• France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

Notes and References

1. Web site: European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1965. José Luis. Pierrend. RSSSF. 22 June 2005. 17 December 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20090118061616/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy65.html. 18 January 2009 . live.
2. News: 50 Ans De Ballon D'Or: 1965 - Eusebio - Une Lutte sans Merci. France Football. 17 December 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081218150247/http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/ballon_or/bo_1965.html. 2008-12-18. dead. fr.
3. Web site: European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or"). RSSSF. 22 October 2008. 17 December 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081217034637/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy.html. 17 December 2008 . live.