1957 Ballon d'Or

1957 Ballon d'Or
1957 Ballon d'Or winner Alfredo Di Stéfano
Date17 December 1957
LocationParis, France
Presented byFrance Football
Highlights
Won bySpain Alfredo Di Stéfano (1st award)
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1957 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 Alfredo Di Stéfano on 17 December 1957.[1]

Rankings

Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Alfredo Di Stéfano Spain Real Madrid Spain[a] 72
2 Billy Wright England Wolverhampton Wanderers England 19
3 Duncan Edwards England Manchester United England 16
Raymond Kopa Spain Real Madrid France
5 László Kubala Spain Barcelona Hungary 15
6 John Charles England Leeds United
Italy Juventus
Wales 14
7 Eduard Streltsov Soviet Union Torpedo Moscow Soviet Union 12
8 Tommy Taylor England Manchester United England 10
9 József Bozsik Hungary Budapest Honvéd Hungary 9
Igor Netto Soviet Union Spartak Moscow Soviet Union
11 Lev Yashin Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow Soviet Union 8
12 Paco Gento Spain Real Madrid Spain 7
Gyula Grosics Hungary Budapest Honvéd
Hungary Tatabánya
Hungary
14 Danny Blanchflower England Tottenham Hotspur Northern Ireland 4
Miloš Milutinović Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Partizan Yugoslavia
Juan Alberto Schiaffino Italy Milan Italy
17 Gerhard Hanappi Austria Rapid Wien Austria 3
Johnny Haynes England Fulham England
Stanley Matthews England Blackpool England
20 Sándor Kocsis Switzerland Young Fellows Zürich Hungary 2
Horst Szymaniak West Germany Wuppertaler SV West Germany
22 Kurt Hamrin Italy Padova Sweden 1
Ladislav Novák Czechoslovakia Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia

Notes

  1. ^ Despite being born in Argentina, Alfredo Di Stéfano acquired Spanish citizenship in 1956, and went on to play for the Spain national team.[2]

References

  1. ^ Pierrend, José (18 April 2007). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1957". RSSSF.
  2. ^ "Europe dazzled by Di Stéfano". UEFA. 22 November 2004. Archived from the original on 11 December 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2008.