1998 Ballon d'Or

Annual association football award event in France 1998 Ballon d'Or Zinedine Zidane 20minutos.jpg 1998 Ballon d'Or winner, Zinedine Zidane in 2000 22 December 1998 France Football ballondor.com Won by FRA Zinedine Zidane (1st award) 1997 Ballon d'Or 1999 The 1998 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 Zinedine Zidane on 22 December 1998. https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy98.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1998 José Luis Pierrend RSSSF 26 March 2005 4 November 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130314042124/http://rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy98.html 14 March 2013 live On 10 November 1998, the shortlist of 50 male players compiled by a group of experts from France Football was announced.Redacția 1998-11-10 Adrian Ilie a fost nominalizat pentru "Balonul de Aur" https://www.ziaruldeiasi.ro/stiri/adrian-ilie-a-fost-nominalizat-pentru-quotbalonul-de-aurquot--jvu.html 2025-12-19 Ziarul de Iaşi - liderul presei ieşene1999-11-27 ALL YOU PREMIER LEAGUE FANS WAKE UP ENGLAND IS A JOKE COMPARED TO ITALY AND SPAIN https://soccergaming.com/forums/threads/all-you-premier-league-fans-wake-up-england-is-a-joke-compared-to-italy-and-spain.4657/ 2025-12-19 Soccer Gaming en-US Rankings Source:France Football http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/ballon_or/bo_1998.html https://web.archive.org/web/20051029064211/http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/ballon_or/bo_1998.html 2005-10-29 2025-12-19 www.francefootball.fr RankPlayerClub(s)NationalityPoints 1 Zinedine ZidaneITA Juventus France 244 2 Davor Šuker ESP Real Madrid Croatia 68 3 Ronaldo ITA Internazionale Brazil 66 4 Michael Owen ENG Liverpool England England 51 5 Rivaldo ESP Barcelona Brazil 45 6 Gabriel Batistuta ITA Fiorentina Argentina 43 7 Lilian Thuram ITA Parma France 36 8 Edgar Davids ITA Juventus Netherlands 28 Dennis Bergkamp ENG Arsenal Netherlands 28 10 Marcel Desailly ENG Chelsea France 19 11 Frank de Boer NED Ajax Netherlands 17 12 Emmanuel Petit ENG Arsenal France 16 13 Roberto Carlos ESP Real Madrid Brazil 13 14 Laurent Blanc FRA Marseille France 11 Fabien Barthez FRA Monaco France 11 16 Alessandro Del Piero ITA Juventus Italy 10 Predrag Mijatović ESP Real Madrid Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 10 18 Didier Deschamps ITA Juventus France 9 Oliver Bierhoff ITA Milan Germany 9 20 Michael Laudrup NED Ajax Denmark 6 21 Ronald de Boer NED Ajax Netherlands 4 Raúl ESP Real Madrid Spain 4 23 Brian Laudrup ENG Chelsea Denmark 3 Clarence Seedorf ESP Real Madrid Netherlands 3 Marc Overmars ENG Arsenal Netherlands 3 26 Christian Vieri ITA Lazio Italy 2 Fernando Hierro ESP Real Madrid Spain 2 28 David Beckham ENG Manchester United England 1 Luis Enrique ESP Barcelona Spain 1 Bixente Lizarazu GER Bayern Munich France 1 Nikos Machlas NED Vitesse Greece 1 Additionally, nineteen players were nominated but received no votes: Tony Adams (Arsenal & England), Roberto Baggio (Bologna/Inter Milan & Italy), Zvonimir Boban (AC Milan & Croatia), Fabio Cannavaro (Parma & Italy), Denílson (São Paulo/Real Betis & Brazil), Tore André Flo (Chelsea & Norway), Adrian Ilie (Valencia & Romania), Filippo Inzaghi (Juventus & Italy), Robert Jarni (Real Betis/Real Madrid & Croatia), Hidetoshi Nakata (Bellmare Hiratsuka/Perugia & Japan), Pavel Nedvěd (Lazio & Czech Republic), Sunday Oliseh (Ajax & Nigeria), Ariel Ortega (Valencia/Sampdoria & Argentina), Gianluca Pagliuca (Inter Milan & Italy), Marcelo Salas (River Plate/Lazio & Chile), David Seaman (Arsenal & England), Andriy Shevchenko (Dynamo Kyiv & Ukraine), Juan Sebastián Verón (Sampdoria/Parma & Argentina) and Iván Zamorano (Inter Milan & Chile). References External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page 1998 Category:1998–99 in European football Category:1998 sports awards