1991 Ballon d'Or

Annual association football award event in France 1991 Ballon d'Or PapinJP1997 (cropped).jpg 1991 Ballon d'Or winner, Jean-Pierre Papin in 1997 24 December 1991 France Football ballondor.com Won by FRA Jean-Pierre Papin (1st award) 1990 Ballon d'Or 1992 The 1991 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 Jean-Pierre Papin on 24 December 1991. https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy91.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1991 José Luis Pierrend RSSSF 18 December 2008 30 December 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20090116120302/http://rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy91.html 16 January 2009 live Papin was the third French national to win the award after Raymond Kopa (1958) and Michel Platini (1983, 1984 and 1985). He was also the first player from the French League to win the trophy. https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") RSSSF 22 October 2008 24 December 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081217034637/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy.html 17 December 2008 live Rankings RankNameClub(s)NationalityPoints1Jean-Pierre PapinFRA MarseilleFrance1412Dejan SavićevićYUG Red Star BelgradeYugoslavia42Darko PančevYUG Red Star BelgradeYugoslavia42Lothar MatthäusITA InternazionaleGermany425Robert ProsinečkiYUG Red Star BelgradeESP Real MadridYugoslavia346Gary LinekerENG Tottenham HotspurEngland337Gianluca VialliITA SampdoriaItaly188Miodrag BelodediciYUG Red Star BelgradeRomania159Mark HughesENG Manchester UnitedWales1210Chris WaddleFRA MarseilleEngland1111Michael LaudrupESP BarcelonaDenmark712Rudi VöllerITA RomaGermany513Txiki BegiristainESP BarcelonaSpain3Stéphane ChapuisatGER Borussia DortmundSwitzerland3Bruno MartiniFRA AuxerreFrance3Paul McGrathENG Aston VillaRepublic of Ireland3Dean SaundersENG Derby CountyENG LiverpoolWales3Hristo StoichkovESP BarcelonaBulgaria319Roberto ManciniITA SampdoriaItaly2Marco van BastenITA MilanNetherlands221Guido BuchwaldGER VfB StuttgartGermany1Thomas DollITA LazioGermany1Stefan EffenbergGER Bayern MunichGermany1Ruud GullitITA MilanNetherlands1Gheorghe HagiESP Real MadridRomania1Oleksiy MykhaylychenkoSCO RangersSoviet Union1Gary PallisterENG Manchester UnitedEngland1Dimitris SaravakosGRE PanathinaikosGreece1Gianluca PagliucaITA SampdoriaItaly1Guy HellersBEL Standard LiègeLuxembourg1Laurent BlancITA NapoliFrance1 References External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page 1991 Category:1991–92 in European football