1985 Ballon d'Or Results
The Ballon d'Or award is annnual football award for the best player from the previous year. Up until 1995 it was awarded only to football players from Europe and was generally known as the European Footballer of the Year award.
Below are the nominees in the final order after voting for the 1985 award. The winner was Michel Platini. Juventus' Platini became the second player to win the Ballon d'Or on three occasions (after Johan Cruyff) though he was the first to win it three consecutive times (1983, 1984 and 1985). See the list of all Ballon d'Or winners.
Final order for the men's 1985 Ballon d'Or
| Order | Player | Club | Nationality | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michel Platini | Juventus | France | 127 |
| 2 | Preben Elkjær | Hellas Verona | Denmark | 71 |
| 3 | Bernd Schuster | Barcelona | West Germany | 46 |
| 4 | Michael Laudrup | Juventus | Denmark | 14 |
| 5 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | Internazionale | West Germany | 13 |
| 6 | Zbigniew Boniek | Roma | Poland | 12 |
| 7 | Oleh Protasov | Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk | Soviet Union | 10 |
| 8 | Hans-Peter Briegel | Hellas Verona | West Germany | 9 |
| 9 | Bryan Robson | Manchester United | England | 8 |
| Rinat Dasayev | Spartak Moscow | Soviet Union | 8 | |
| 11 | Rudi Völler | Werder Bremen | West Germany | 7 |
| 12 | Luis Fernández | Paris Saint-Germain | France | 6 |
| Søren Lerby | Bayern Munich | Denmark | 6 | |
| 14 | Rafael Gordillo | Real Madrid | Spain | 5 |
| Ian Rush | Liverpool | Wales | 5 | |
| 16 | Emilio Butragueño | Real Madrid | Spain | 4 |
| Fernando Gomes | Porto | Portugal | 4 | |
| 18 | Harald Schumacher | 1. FC Köln | West Germany | 3 |
| John Sivebæk | Vejle | Denmark | 3 | |
| Neville Southall | Everton | Wales | 3 | |
| 21 | Lajos Détári | Budapest Honvéd | Hungary | 2 |
| Alain Giresse | Bordeaux | France | 2 | |
| Vahid Halilhodžić | Nantes | Yugoslavia | 2 | |
| Tibor Nyilasi | Austria Wien | Hungary | 2 | |
| Peter Reid | Everton | England | 2 | |
| Peter Shilton | Southampton | England | 2 | |
| Graeme Souness | Sampdoria | Scotland | 2 | |
| Pat Jennings | Tottenham Hotspur | Northern Ireland | 2 | |
| 29 | Steve Archibald | Barcelona | Scotland | 1 |
| Jan Ceulemans | Club Brugge | Belgium | 1 | |
| Anatoliy Demyanenko | Dinamo Kyiv | Soviet Union | 1 | |
| Georgi Dimitrov | CSKA Sofia | Bulgaria | 1 | |
| Gheorghe Hagi | Sportul Studențesc | Romania | 1 | |
| Mark Hateley | Milan | England | 1 | |
| Herbert Prohaska | Austria Wien | Austria | 1 | |
| Gary Stevens | Everton | England | 1 | |
| Andreas Thom | Dynamo Berlin | East Germany | 1 | |
| Ladislav Vízek | Dukla Prague | Czechoslovakia | 1 |
Related Pages
- Michel Platini won the Ballon d'Or in 1983, 1984 and 1985.
- 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: 1985
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