1980 Ballon d'Or

1980 Ballon d'Or
1980 Ballon d'Or winner Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in 1982
Date30 December 1980
Presented byFrance Football
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Won byGermany Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1st award)
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1980 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 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on 30 December 1980.[1]

Rummenigge was the third (West) German national to win the award after Gerd Müller in 1970 and Franz Beckenbauer in 1972 and 1976. After these two players, Rummenigge was also the third Bayern Munich player to win the trophy.[2]

Rankings

Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge West Germany Bayern Munich West Germany 122
2 Bernd Schuster Spain Barcelona West Germany 34
3 Michel Platini France Saint-Étienne France 33
4 Wilfried Van Moer Belgium Beveren Belgium 27
5 Jan Ceulemans Belgium Club Brugge Belgium 20
6 Horst Hrubesch West Germany Hamburger SV West Germany 18
7 Herbert Prohaska[notes 1] Italy Internazionale Austria 14
8 Hansi Müller West Germany VfB Stuttgart West Germany 11
Liam Brady Italy Juventus Republic of Ireland 11
10 Manfred Kaltz West Germany Hamburger SV West Germany 10
11 Erwin Vandenbergh Belgium Lierse Belgium 9
Luis Arconada Spain Real Sociedad Spain 9
Dino Zoff Italy Juventus Italy 9
14 Kenny Dalglish England Liverpool Scotland 5
Bruno Pezzey[notes 2] West Germany Eintracht Frankfurt Austria 5
16 Terry McDermott England Liverpool England 4
Viv Anderson England Nottingham Forest England 4
Ruud Krol Italy Napoli Netherlands 4
Francesco Graziani Italy Torino Italy 4
20 Ladislav Vízek Czechoslovakia Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia 3
Manuel Bento Portugal Benfica Portugal 3
22 Frank Arnesen Netherlands Ajax Denmark 2
Antonín Panenka Czechoslovakia Bohemians 1905 Czechoslovakia 2
David O'Leary England Arsenal Republic of Ireland 2
Vladimir Petrović Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade SFR Yugoslavia 2
Zbigniew Boniek Poland Widzew Łódź Poland 2
27 Giancarlo Antognoni Italy Fiorentina Italy 1
Alessandro Altobelli Italy Internazionale Italy 1
Marcel Răducanu Romania Steaua București Romania 1
Trevor Francis England Nottingham Forest England 1
Zdeněk Nehoda Czechoslovakia Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia 1
Peter Shilton England Nottingham Forest England 1

Notes

  1. ^ France Football reports Prohaska with 16 points.
  2. ^ France Football reports Pezzey with 3 points.

References

  1. ^ Pierrend, José Luis (1 May 2005). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1980". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  2. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF. 18 December 2008. Archived from the original on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2008.