1965 Ballon d'Or

Annual association football award event in France 1965 Ballon d'Or Eusebio (1963 version2).jpg 1965 Ballon d'Or winner, Eusébio 28 December 1965 Paris, France France Football ballondor.com Won by POR Eusébio (1st award) 1964 Ballon d'Or 1966 The 1965 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 Eusébio on 28 December 1965. https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy65.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1965 José Luis Pierrend RSSSF 22 June 2005 17 December 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20090118061616/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy65.html 18 January 2009 live http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/ballon_or/bo_1965.html 50 Ans De Ballon D'Or: 1965 - Eusebio - Une Lutte sans Merci France Football 17 December 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081218150247/http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/ballon_or/bo_1965.html 2008-12-18 dead fr Eusébio was the first Portuguese national to win the award and still is the only Benfica player to have won it. https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") RSSSF 22 October 2008 17 December 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081217034637/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy.html 17 December 2008 live Rankings RankNameClub(s)NationalityPoints 1EusébioPortugal BenficaPortugal67 2Giacinto FacchettiItaly InternazionaleItaly59 3Luis SuárezItaly InternazionaleSpain 194545 4Paul Van HimstBelgium AnderlechtBelgium25 5Bobby CharltonEngland Manchester UnitedEngland19 6Flórián AlbertHungary FerencvárosHungary14 7Gianni RiveraItaly MilanItaly10 8Georgi AsparuhovBulgaria 1948 Levski SofiaBulgaria 19489Sandro MazzolaItaly InternazionaleItalyValery VoroninSoviet Union Torpedo MoskvaSoviet Union 11Denis LawEngland Manchester UnitedScotland8 12Karl-Heinz SchnellingerItaly RomaItaly MilanWest Germany6 13Jim BaxterScotland RangersEngland SunderlandScotland5Ferenc PuskásSpain 1945 Real MadridSpain 1945 15Mario CorsoItaly InternazionaleItaly3Lev YashinSoviet Union Dynamo MoscowSoviet Union 17AmancioSpain 1945 Real MadridSpain 19452Franz BeckenbauerWest Germany Bayern MunichWest GermanyFerenc BeneHungary ÚjpestHungaryMário ColunaPortugal BenficaPortugalMilan GalićYugoslavia PartizanYugoslaviaPhilippe GondetFrance NantesFranceAndrej KvašňákCzechoslovakia Sparta PragueCzechoslovakiaSlava MetreveliSoviet Union Dinamo TbilisiSoviet Union 25Ivor AllchurchWales Cardiff CityWales Swansea TownWales1Sigfried HeldWest Germany Kickers OffenbachWest Germany Borussia DortmundWest GermanyKöbi KuhnSwitzerland ZürichSwitzerland References External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page 1965 Category:1965–66 in European football