1981 Ballon d'Or explained

1981 Ballon d'Or
Date:	29 December 1981
Presenter:	France Football
Award1 Type:	Ballon d'Or
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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		106
2	Paul Breitner	Bayern Munich		64
3	Bernd Schuster	Barcelona		39
4	Michel Platini	Saint-Étienne	France	36
5	Oleg Blokhin	Dinamo Kyiv		14
6	Dino Zoff	Juventus	Italy	13
7	Ramaz Shengelia	Dinamo Tbilisi		10
8	Alexsandr Chivadze	Dinamo Tbilisi		9
9	Liam Brady	Juventus		7
	John Wark	Ipswich Town
11	David Kipiani	Dinamo Tbilisi		6
	András Törőcsik	Újpest	Hungary
	Zbigniew Boniek	Widzew Łódź	Poland
	Maxime Bossis	Nantes	France
	Bruno Pezzey	Eintracht Frankfurt	Austria
16	Horst Hrubesch	Hamburger SV		5
	Ruud Krol	Napoli	Netherlands
	Vladimir Petrović	Red Star Belgrade
19	Zlatko Vujovic	Hajduk Split		4
	Trevor Brooking	West Ham United
21	Giancarlo Antognoni	Fiorentina	Italy	3
	Jan Ceulemans	Club Brugge	Belgium
	Kenny Dalglish	Liverpool
	Bryan Robson	Manchester United
	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
	Jesús Zamora	Real Sociedad	Spain

External links

• France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

Notes and References

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