1979 Ballon d'Or explained

1979 Ballon d'Or
Date:	25 December 1979
Presenter:	France Football
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The 1979 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 English forward Kevin Keegan on 25 December 1979.^[1] There were 26 voters, from 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.^[2]

Rankings

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Kevin Keegan	Hamburger SV		118
2	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Bayern Munich		52
3	Ruud Krol	Ajax	Netherlands	41
4	Manfred Kaltz	Hamburger SV		27
5	Michel Platini	Saint-Étienne	France	23
6	Paolo Rossi	Perugia	Italy	16
7	Trevor Francis	Nottingham Forest		13
	Liam Brady	Arsenal
9	Zbigniew Boniek	Widzew Łódź	Poland	8
	Zdeněk Nehoda	Dukla Prague
11	Kenny Dalglish	Liverpool		7
	Allan Simonsen	Barcelona	Denmark
13	Paul Breitner	Bayern Munich		6
	Kees Kist		Netherlands
15	Johnny Rep	Saint-Étienne	Netherlands	5
	Tony Woodcock	1. FC Köln
	Hans Krankl	Barcelona	Austria
	Safet Sušić	FK Sarajevo
19	Uli Stielike	Real Madrid		4
20	Marius Trésor	Marseille	France	3
21	João Alves	Paris Saint-Germain	Portugal	2
	Franco Causio	Juventus	Italy
	Gordon McQueen	Manchester United
	René van de Kerkhof	PSV Eindhoven	Netherlands
	Bruno Pezzey	Eintracht Frankfurt	Austria
	Simon Tahamata	Ajax	Netherlands
27	Juan Manuel Asensi	Barcelona	Spain	1
	Trevor Brooking	West Ham United
	Ronnie Hellström	Kaiserslautern	Sweden
	Hansi Müller	VfB Stuttgart
	Antonín Panenka	Bohemians 1905
			Austria

External links

• France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

Notes and References

1. Web site: 8 December 2013. Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1979 - Kevin Keegan. 6 July 2020. France Football.
2. Web site: 1 May 2005. European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1979. 6 July 2020. RSSSF.