1957 Ballon d'Or Results
The Ballon d'Or award is an annual football award for the best player from the previous year, starting in 1956. Up until 1995 it was awarded only to football players from Europe and was generally known as the European Footballer of the Year award.
Alfredo Di Stéfano in 1948 Below are the 25 nominees in the final order after voting for the 1957 Ballon d'Or award, the second ever time the award was presented. The winner was Alfredo Di Stéfano, who played for Real Madrid. Di Stéfano was born in Argentina, but became a Spanish citizen in 1956, thereby becoming eligible for the award. See the list of all Ballon d'Or winners.
Final order for the men's 1957 Ballon d'Or
| Order | Player | Club | Nationality | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alfredo Di Stéfano | Real Madrid | Spain | 72 |
| 2 | Billy Wright | Wolverhampton Wanderers | England | 19 |
| 3 | Duncan Edwards | Manchester United | England | 16 |
| Raymond Kopa | Real Madrid | France | 16 | |
| 5 | László Kubala | Barcelona | Hungary | 15 |
| 6 | John Charles | Leeds United / Juventus | Wales | 14 |
| 7 | Eduard Streltsov | Torpedo Moscow | Soviet Union | 12 |
| 8 | Tommy Taylor | Manchester United | England | 10 |
| 9 | József Bozsik | Budapest Honvéd | Hungary | 9 |
| Igor Netto | Spartak Moscow | Soviet Union | 9 | |
| 11 | Lev Yashin | Dynamo Moscow | Soviet Union | 8 |
| 12 | Francisco Gento | Real Madrid | Spain | 7 |
| Gyula Grosics | Budapest Honvéd / Tatabánya | Hungary | 7 | |
| 14 | Danny Blanchflower | Tottenham Hotspur | Northern Ireland | 4 |
| Miloš Milutinović | Partizan | Yugoslavia | 4 | |
| Juan Alberto Schiaffino | Milan | Italy | 4 | |
| 17 | Gerhard Hanappi | Rapid Wien | Austria | 3 |
| Johnny Haynes | Fulham | England | 3 | |
| Stanley Matthews | Blackpool | England | 3 | |
| 20 | Sándor Kocsis | Young Fellows Zürich | Hungary | 2 |
| Horst Szymaniak | Wuppertaler SV | West Germany | 2 | |
| 22 | Kurt Hamrin | Padova | Sweden | 1 |
| Ladislav Novák | Dukla Prague | Czechoslovakia | 1 |
Related Pages
- Ballon d'Or Home
- Men's Ballon d'Or Winner's List
- Football Awards Lists
- List of the FIFA male player of the year and FIFA female player of the year.
- History of the Ballon d'Or
- The Year in Sport: 1957
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