1986 Ballon d'Or

1986 Ballon d'Or
1986 Ballon d'Or winner Igor Belanov in 2012
Date30 December 1986
Presented byFrance Football
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or
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The 1986 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 Soviet forward Igor Belanov on 30 December 1986.[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] Belanov became the third Soviet and the second Ukrainian national to win the award after Lev Yashin (1963) and Oleg Blokhin (1975).

Rankings

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Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Igor Belanov Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv  Soviet Union 84
2 Gary Lineker England Everton
Spain Barcelona
 England 62
3 Emilio Butragueño Spain Real Madrid  Spain 59
4 Manuel Amoros France Monaco  France 22
Preben Elkjær Italy Hellas Verona  Denmark
6 Ian Rush England Liverpool  Wales 20
Oleksandr Zavarov Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv  Soviet Union
8 Helmuth Duckadam Romania Steaua București  Romania 10
Marco van Basten Netherlands Ajax  Netherlands
10 Alessandro Altobelli Italy Internazionale  Italy 9
11 Jean-Marie Pfaff West Germany Bayern Munich  Belgium 8
Michel Platini Italy Juventus  France
13 Jan Ceulemans Belgium Club Brugge  Belgium 7
Søren Lerby France Monaco  Denmark
15 Morten Olsen Belgium Anderlecht
West Germany 1. FC Köln
 Denmark 6
16 Rinat Dasayev Soviet Union Spartak Moscow  Soviet Union 5
17 Luis Fernández France Paris Saint-Germain
France RC Paris
 France 4
Paulo Futre Portugal Porto  Portugal
Ruud Gullit Netherlands PSV Eindhoven  Netherlands
Harald Schumacher West Germany 1. FC Köln  West Germany
21 Kenny Dalglish England Liverpool  Scotland 3
Jean Tigana France Bordeaux  France
Pavlo Yakovenko Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv  Soviet Union
24 Karlheinz Förster West Germany VfB Stuttgart
France Marseille
 West Germany 2
Lothar Matthäus West Germany Bayern Munich  West Germany
26 Michael Laudrup Italy Juventus  Denmark 1
Rudi Völler West Germany Werder Bremen  West Germany

Notes and references

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  1. ^ "Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1986 - Igor Belanov". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  2. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1986". RSSSF. 26 March 2005. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
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