1975 Ballon d'Or

Annual association football award event in France 1975 Ballon d'Or Oleg Blokhin 1977.jpg 1975 Ballon d'Or winner, Oleg Blokhin in 1977 30 December 1975 France Football ballondor.com Won by SOV Oleg Blokhin (1st award) 1974 Ballon d'Or 1976 The 1975 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 Soviet forward Oleg Blokhin on 30 December 1975.http://www.francefootball.fr/news/1975-oleg-blokhine/423401 Palmarès Ballon d'Or – 1975 – Oleg Blokhine France Football 8 December 2013 1 April 2015 There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy75.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1975 RSSSF 1 May 2005 1 April 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20090118061631/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy75.html 18 January 2009 live Blokhin became the second Soviet (and the first Ukrainian) footballer who won the trophy after Lev Yashin (1963).https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") RSSSF 21 January 2011 31 March 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20090116080615/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy.html 16 January 2009 live Rankings RankNameClub(s)NationalityPoints 1 Oleg Blokhin URS Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union 122 2 Franz Beckenbauer FRG Bayern Munich West Germany 42 3 Johan Cruyff ESP 1945 Barcelona Netherlands 27 4 Berti Vogts FRG Borussia Mönchengladbach West Germany 25 5 Sepp Maier FRG Bayern Munich West Germany 20 6 Ruud Geels NED Ajax Netherlands 18 7 Jupp Heynckes FRG Borussia Mönchengladbach West Germany 17 8 Paul Breitner Spain 1945 Real Madrid West Germany 14 9 Colin Todd ENG Derby County England 12 10 Dudu Georgescu ROM 1965 Dinamo București Romania 1965 11 11 Peter Lorimer ENG Leeds United Scotland 9 Branko Oblak FRG Schalke 04 Yugoslavia Pirri Spain 1945 Real Madrid Spain 1945 14 Ralf Edström NED PSV Eindhoven Sweden 6 Günter Netzer ESP 1945 Real Madrid West Germany Dino Zoff ITA Juventus Italy 17 Hristo Bonev BUL 1971 Lokomotiv Plovdiv Bulgaria 1971 4 Josip Katalinski FRA Nice Yugoslavia Grzegorz Lato POL Stal Mielec Poland Gerd Müller FRG Bayern Munich West Germany Ivo Viktor Czechoslovakia Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia 22 Ján Pivarník Czechoslovakia Slovan Bratislava Czechoslovakia 3 23 Leonid Buryak URS Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union 2 Jürgen Croy GDR Sachsenring Zwickau East Germany Johan Neeskens Spain 1945 Barcelona Netherlands Jean-Marc Guillou FRA Nice France 27 João Alves POR Boavista Portugal 1 Dragan Džajić FRA Bastia Yugoslavia Giacinto Facchetti ITA Internazionale Italy Don Givens ENG Queens Park Rangers Republic of Ireland Pat Jennings ENG Tottenham Hotspur Northern Ireland Allan Simonsen FRG Borussia Mönchengladbach Denmark References External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page 1975 Category:1975–76 in European football