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FIFA Ballon d'Or
Award for association football players
Award for association football players
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | FIFA Ballon d'Or |
| image | FIFA Ballon d'Or, Lionel Messi 2010.jpg |
| caption | FIFA Ballon d'Or awarded to Messi in 2010 |
| sport | Association football |
| givenfor | Best performing player of the calendar year |
| first | 2010 |
| number | 6 |
| last | 2015 |
| mostwins | ARG Lionel Messi |
| (4 awards) | |
| url |
the FIFA award issued between 2010 and 2015
(4 awards) The FIFA Ballon d'Or ("Golden Ball") was an annual association football award presented to the world's best men's player from 2010 to 2015. Awarded jointly by FIFA and France Football, the prize was a merger of the FIFA World Player of the Year award and the Ballon d'Or, the two most prestigious individual honours in world football. Unlike the Ballon d'Or awarded by France Football, the FIFA Ballon d'Or, was not awarded solely based on votes from international journalists, but votes from national team coaches and captains also, who selected the players they deemed to have performed the best in the previous calendar year.
The six editions of the FIFA Ballon d'Or were dominated by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, as part of their ongoing rivalry.
Messi, who played for Barcelona, won the inaugural Ballon d'Or in 2010 and went on to win three in a row, after his wins in 2011 and 2012. Ronaldo, who played for Real Madrid, won successive awards in the next two years. The final FIFA Ballon d'Or was presented to Messi in 2015. Its awarding bodies subsequently ended their partnership; for 2016, France Football reintroduced the previous format of the Ballon d'Or, while FIFA created The Best FIFA Men's Player award.
History
Historically, the leading individual awards in association football were the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year award. The original Ballon d'Or, also known as the European Footballer of the Year award, had been awarded by the French publication France Football since 1956. The FIFA World Player of the Year award was presented by FIFA, the sport's governing body, from 1991.
From 2005, the winners of the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year award were identical each year. Following the introduction of a global Ballon d'Or format in 2007, France Football and FIFA opted to merge the two awards. The creation of the FIFA Ballon d'Or was subsequently announced during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The inaugural award was presented that same year to the Argentine Lionel Messi.
After a six-year partnership, France Football and FIFA terminated the joint award. Lionel Messi had received the final FIFA Ballon d'Or. For historical purposes, both awarding bodies regard the six editions of the FIFA Ballon d'Or as a continuation of their respective awards.
Voting
The winners of the FIFA Ballon d'Or were chosen by international journalists and the coaches and captains of the national teams under FIFA's jurisdiction. In a system based on positional voting, each voter was allotted three votes, worth five points, three points and one point, and the three finalists were ordered based on total number of points. Voters were provided with a shortlist of 23 players from which they could select the three players they deemed to have performed the best in the previous calendar year.
Winners
| Year | Rank | Player | Team | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1st | ARG Lionel Messi | ESP Barcelona | 22.65% |
| 2nd | ESP Andrés Iniesta | ESP Barcelona | 17.36% | |
| 3rd | ESP Xavi | ESP Barcelona | 16.48% | |
| 2011 | 1st | ARG Lionel Messi | ESP Barcelona | 47.88% |
| 2nd | POR Cristiano Ronaldo | ESP Real Madrid | 21.60% | |
| 3rd | ESP Xavi | ESP Barcelona | 9.23% | |
| 2012 | 1st | ARG Lionel Messi | ESP Barcelona | 41.60% |
| 2nd | POR Cristiano Ronaldo | ESP Real Madrid | 23.68% | |
| 3rd | ESP Andrés Iniesta | ESP Barcelona | 10.91% | |
| 2013 | 1st | POR Cristiano Ronaldo | ESP Real Madrid | 27.99% |
| 2nd | ARG Lionel Messi | ESP Barcelona | 24.72% | |
| 3rd | FRA Franck Ribéry | GER Bayern Munich | 23.36% | |
| 2014 | 1st | POR Cristiano Ronaldo | ESP Real Madrid | 37.66% |
| 2nd | ARG Lionel Messi | ESP Barcelona | 15.76% | |
| 3rd | GER Manuel Neuer | GER Bayern Munich | 15.72% | |
| 2015 | 1st | ARG Lionel Messi | ESP Barcelona | 41.33% |
| 2nd | POR Cristiano Ronaldo | ESP Real Madrid | 27.76% | |
| 3rd | BRA Neymar | ESP Barcelona | 7.86% |
Wins by player
| # | Player | Winner | Runner-up | Third place | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | '*ARG Lionel Messi{{refn | group=note | FIFA and *France Football'' credit Messi, the recipient of the 2009 Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year award, with six Ballons d'Or in total (2009–12, 2015, 2019). Messi additionally placed as a finalist for both awards in 2007 and 2008. | 4 (2010, 2011, 2012, 2015) | 2 (2013, 2014) | — |
| 2 | POR Cristiano Ronaldo | 2 (2013, 2014) | 3 (2011, 2012, 2015) | — | ||
| 3 | ESP Andrés Iniesta | — | 1 (2010) | 1 (2012) | ||
| 4 | ESP Xavi | — | — | 2 (2010, 2011) | ||
| 5 | FRA Franck Ribéry | — | — | 1 (2013) | ||
| GER Manuel Neuer | — | — | 1 (2014) | |||
| BRA Neymar | — | — | 1 (2015) |
Wins by country
| # | Country | Winner | Runner-up | Third place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argentina | 4 (2010, 2011, 2012, 2015) | 2 (2013, 2014) | — |
| 2 | Portugal | 2 (2013, 2014) | 3 (2011, 2012, 2015) | — |
| 3 | Spain | — | 1 (2010) | 3 (2010, 2011, 2012) |
| 4 | France | — | — | 1 (2013) |
| Germany | — | — | 1 (2014) | |
| Brazil | — | — | 1 (2015) |
Wins by club
FIFA Ballon d'Or Prix d'Honneur
In 2013, Brazilian forward Pelé was given an honorary Ballon d'Or, having won three FIFA World Cups with Brazil but never an individual award from FIFA, as during his playing career only Europe-based players were eligible to win the original Ballon d'Or.
References
;Notes
;Citations
References
- (5 July 2010). "World Cup 2010: Fifa and Ballon d'Or player awards to be merged". The Daily Telegraph.
- Wahl, Grant. (15 September 2010). "Xavi, Messi are primary contenders for the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or".
- (10 January 2011). "Argentina's Lionel Messi wins Fifa Ballon d'Or award". BBC Sport.
- (16 September 2016). "Ballon d'Or: FIFA ends association with world player of the year award". BBC Sport.
- "Rules of allocation". FIFA.
- Pierrend, José Luis. (12 February 2015). "FIFA Awards: World Player of the Year". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.
- (21 January 2011). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.
- (13 January 2014). "Pele receives FIFA Ballon d'Or Prix d'Honneur". FIFA.
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