1988 Ballon d'Or

The 1988 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 Marco van Basten on 27 December 1988.[1]

There were 27 voters, from Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.

Van Basten was the third Dutch national to win the award after Johan Cruyff (1971, 1973, 1974) and Ruud Gullit (1987).

Rankings
Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1Marco van Basten Milan Netherlands129
2Ruud Gullit Milan Netherlands88
3Frank Rijkaard Milan Netherlands45
4Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union41
5Ronald Koeman PSV Eindhoven Netherlands39
6Lothar Matthäus Internazionale West Germany10
7Gianluca Vialli Sampdoria Italy7
8Franco Baresi Milan Italy5
Jürgen Klinsmann VfB Stuttgart West Germany5
Oleksandr Zavarov Juventus Soviet Union5
11Tanju Çolak Galatasaray Turkey4
Oleh Kuznetsov Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union4
13Rinat Dasayev Sevilla Soviet Union3
Anatoliy Demyanenko Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union3
Glenn Hysén Fiorentina Sweden3
Míchel Real Madrid Spain3
17Flemming Povlsen 1. FC Köln Denmark2
Michel Preud'homme Mechelen Belgium2
Walter Zenga Internazionale Italy2
20Gheorghe Hagi Steaua București Romania1
Roberto Mancini Sampdoria Italy1
Dejan Savićević Red Star Belgrade Yugoslavia1
Neville Southall Everton Wales1
Dragan Stojković Red Star Belgrade Yugoslavia1

References
  1. "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1988". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 26 March 2005.
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