1969 Ballon d'Or

Annual association football award event in France 1969 Ballon d'Or Milan AC - Gianni Rivera - Ballon d'Or 1969.jpg 1969 Ballon d'Or winner, Gianni Rivera 23 December 1969 Paris, France France Football ballondor.com Won by ITA Gianni Rivera (1st award) 1968 Ballon d'Or 1970 The 1969 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 Italian midfielder Gianni Rivera (Milan) on 23 December 1969.http://www.francefootball.fr/news/1969-gianni-rivera/423387 1969 – Gianni Rivera France Football 8 December 2013 31 March 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-poy69.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1969 RSSSF 22 June 2005 31 March 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20090118061631/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy69.html 18 January 2009 live Rivera became the second Italian to win the award, after Omar Sívori in 1961. He was also the first Milan player to win the trophy.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 Gianni Rivera ITA Milan Italy 83 2 Gigi Riva ITA Cagliari Italy 79 3 Gerd Müller GER Bayern Munich West Germany 38 4 Johan Cruyff NED Ajax Netherlands 30 Ove Kindvall NED Feyenoord Sweden 6 George Best ENG Manchester United Northern Ireland 21 7 Franz Beckenbauer GER Bayern Munich West Germany 18 8 Pierino Prati ITA Milan Italy 17 9 Petar Zhekov BUL 1968 CSKA Sofia Bulgaria 1968 14 10 Jack Charlton ENG Leeds United England 10 11 Albert Shesternyov SOV CSKA Moscow Soviet Union 8 12 Dragan Džajić YUG Red Star Belgrade Yugoslavia 6 13 Francis Lee ENG Manchester City England 4 Martin Peters ENG West Ham United England 15 Jozef Adamec Czechoslovakia Spartak Trnava Czechoslovakia 3 Bobby Charlton ENG Manchester United England Angelo Sormani ITA Milan Italy 18 Ferenc Bene HUN Újpest Hungary 2 Andrej Kvašňák BEL KRC Mechelen Czechoslovakia Louis Pilot BEL Standard Liège Luxembourg Giorgos Sideris GRE Olympiacos Greece Manuel Velázquez ESP 1945 Real Madrid Spain 1945 23 Billy Bremner ENG Leeds United Scotland 1 Kazimierz Deyna POL Legia Warsaw Poland Mimis Domazos GRE Panathinaikos Greece Gilbert Gress GER VfB Stuttgart France Jimmy Johnstone SCO Celtic Scotland Włodzimierz Lubański POL Górnik Zabrze Poland Vladimir Muntyan SOV Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union Wilfried Van Moer BEL Standard Liège Belgium Ivo Viktor Czechoslovakia Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia References External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page 1969 Category:1969–70 in European football