1986 Ballon d'Or

The 1986 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 Soviet forward Igor Belanov on 30 December 1986.[1] There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.[2] Belanov became the third Soviet national who win the award after Lev Yashin (1963) and Oleh Blokhin (1975).

1986 Ballon d'Or winner Igor Belanov

Rankings
Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1Igor BelanovSoviet Union Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union84
2Gary LinekerEngland Everton
Spain Barcelona		 England62
3Emilio ButragueñoSpain Real Madrid Spain59
4Manuel AmorosFrance Monaco France22
Preben ElkjærItaly Hellas Verona Denmark
6Ian RushEngland Liverpool Wales20
Oleksandr ZavarovSoviet Union Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union
8Helmuth DuckadamRomania Steaua București Romania10
Marco van BastenNetherlands Ajax Netherlands
10Alessandro AltobelliItaly Internazionale Italy9
11Jean-Marie PfaffWest Germany Bayern Munich Belgium8
Michel PlatiniItaly Juventus France
13Jan CeulemansBelgium Club Brugge Belgium7
Søren LerbyFrance Monaco Denmark
15Morten OlsenBelgium Anderlecht
West Germany 1. FC Köln		 Denmark6
16Rinat DasayevSoviet Union Spartak Moscow Soviet Union5
17Luis FernándezFrance Paris Saint-Germain
France RC Paris		 France4
Paulo FutrePortugal Porto Portugal
Ruud GullitNetherlands PSV Eindhoven Netherlands
Harald SchumacherWest Germany 1. FC Köln West Germany
21Kenny DalglishEngland Liverpool Scotland3
Jean TiganaFrance Bordeaux France
Pavlo YakovenkoSoviet Union Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union
24Karlheinz FörsterWest Germany VfB Stuttgart
France Marseille		 West Germany2
Lothar MatthäusWest Germany Bayern Munich West Germany
26Michael LaudrupItaly Juventus Denmark1
Rudi VöllerWest Germany Werder Bremen West Germany

Notes and references
  1. "Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1986 - Igor Belanov". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  2. "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1986". RSSSF. 26 March 2005. Retrieved 2 April 2015.


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