1988 Ballon d'Or

Annual association football award event in France 1988 Ballon d'Or Gullit + Van Basten 1987 (cropped) (cropped).jpg 1988 Ballon d'Or winner, Marco van Basten 27 December 1988 France Football ballondor.com Won by NED Marco Van Basten (1st award) 1987 Ballon d'Or 1989 The 1988 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 Marco van Basten on 27 December 1988. https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy88.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1988 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 26 March 2005 There were 27 voters, from Albania, 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. Van Basten was the third Dutch national to win the award after Johan Cruyff (1971, 1973, 1974) and Ruud Gullit (1987). Rankings RankNameClub(s)NationalityPoints 1 Marco van Basten ITA Milan Netherlands 129 2 Ruud Gullit ITA Milan Netherlands 88 3 Frank Rijkaard ITA Milan Netherlands 45 4 Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union 41 5 Ronald Koeman NED PSV Eindhoven Netherlands 39 6 Lothar Matthäus ITA Internazionale West Germany 10 7 Gianluca Vialli ITA Sampdoria Italy 7 8 Franco Baresi ITA Milan Italy 5 Jürgen Klinsmann West Germany VfB Stuttgart West Germany 5 Oleksandr Zavarov ITA Juventus Soviet Union 5 11 Tanju Çolak TUR Galatasaray Turkey 4Oleh Kuznetsov Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union 4 13 Rinat Dasayev ESP Sevilla Soviet Union 3 Anatoliy Demyanenko Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union 3 Glenn Hysén ITA Fiorentina Sweden 3 Míchel ESP Real Madrid Spain 3 17 Flemming Povlsen West Germany 1. FC Köln Denmark 2 Michel Preud'homme BEL Mechelen Belgium 2 Walter Zenga ITA Internazionale Italy 2 20 Gheorghe Hagi ROU 1965 Steaua București Romania 1965 1 Roberto Mancini ITA Sampdoria Italy 1 Dejan Savićević Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade Yugoslavia 1 Neville Southall ENG Everton Wales 1 Dragan Stojković Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade Yugoslavia 1 References External links 1988 Category:1988–89 in European football