2000 Ballon d'Or

Annual association football award event in France 2000 Ballon d'Or Luis Figo.jpg 2000 Ballon d'Or winner, Luís Figo in 2006 19 December 2000 France Football ballondor.com Won by POR Luís Figo (1st award) 1999 Ballon d'Or 2001 The 2000 Ballon d'Or (2000 Golden Ball), given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Luís Figo on 19 December 2000.https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy00.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 2000 José Luis Pierrend RSSSF 26 March 2005 27 February 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090216092542/http://rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy00.html 16 February 2009 live Figo was the second Portuguese player to win the award after Eusébio (1965). He was also the third Real Madrid player to win the trophy after Alfredo Di Stéfano (1957, 1959) and Raymond Kopa (1958).https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") RSSSF 16 January 2009 27 February 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090212081244/http://rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy.html 12 February 2009 live Rankings On 13 November 2000, the shortlist of 50 male players compiled by a group of experts from France Football was announced.Os candidatos à Bola de Ouro https://maisfutebol.iol.pt/internacional/geral/os-candidatos-a-bola-de-ouro 2025-12-19 Maisfutebol en2000-11-14 Francia dominancia az Aranylabdára jelöltek között https://www.origo.hu/sport/sport-futball/2000/11/20001114francia 2025-12-19 ORIGO hu thumb|Luís Figo's Ballon d'Or replica The voting results went as follows:France Football http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/ballon_or/bo_2000.html https://web.archive.org/web/20051101012835/http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/ballon_or/bo_2000.html 2005-11-01 2025-12-19 www.francefootball.fr RankPlayerClub(s)NationalityPoints 1 Luís Figo ESP BarcelonaESP Real Madrid Portugal 197 2 Zinedine Zidane ITA Juventus France 181 3 Andriy Shevchenko ITA Milan Ukraine 85 4 Thierry Henry ENG Arsenal France 57 5 Alessandro Nesta ITA Lazio Italy 39 6 Rivaldo ESP Barcelona Brazil 39 7 Gabriel Batistuta ITA Roma Argentina 26 8 Gaizka Mendieta ESP Valencia Spain 22 9 Raúl ESP Real Madrid Spain 18 10 Paolo Maldini ITA Milan Italy 10 David Beckham ENG Manchester United England 10 12 Zlatko Zahovič GRE OlympiacosESP Valencia Slovenia 8 Fabien Barthez ENG Manchester United France 8 14 Francesco Toldo ITA Fiorentina Italy 7 Francesco Totti ITA Roma Italy 7 Roberto Carlos ESP Real Madrid Brazil 7 17 Patrick Kluivert ESP Barcelona Netherlands 6 18 Edgar Davids ITA Juventus Netherlands 5 Hakan Şükür ITA Internazionale Turkey 5 Mário Jardel TUR Galatasaray Brazil 5 Fernando Redondo ESP Real MadridITA Milan Argentina 5 22 Pavel Nedvěd ITA Lazio Czech Republic 4 David Trezeguet ITA Juventus France 4 24 Marcel Desailly ENG Chelsea France 2 Oliver Kahn GER Bayern Munich Germany 2 Rui Costa ITA Fiorentina Portugal 2 27 Laurent Blanc ITA Internazionale France 1 Claudio López ESP ValenciaITA Lazio Argentina 1 Roy Keane ENG Manchester United Republic of Ireland 1 Juan Sebastián Verón ITA Lazio Argentina 1 Additionally, nineteen players were nominated but received no votes: Sonny Anderson (Brazil and Lyon), Nicolas Anelka (France, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain), Jocelyn Angloma (France and Valencia), Dennis Bergkamp (Netherlands and Arsenal), Hernán Crespo (Argentina, Parma and Lazio), Didier Deschamps (France, Chelsea and Valencia), Marcelo Gallardo (Argentina and Monaco), Geremi (Cameroon and Real Madrid), Ryan Giggs (Wales and Manchester United), Filippo Inzaghi (Italy and Juventus), Patrick M'Boma (Cameroon, Cagliari and Parma), Savo Milošević (Serbia and Montenegro, Zaragoza and Parma), Nuno Gomes (Portugal, Benfica and Fiorentina), Álvaro Recoba (Uruguay and Internazionale), Paul Scholes (England and Manchester United), Marco Simone (Italy and Monaco), Jaap Stam (Netherlands and Manchester United), Sylvain Wiltord (France, Bordeaux and Arsenal) and Boudewijn Zenden (Netherlands and Barcelona). References External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page 2000 Category:2000–01 in European football Category:2000 sports awards