2004 Ballon d'Or Results
The Ballon d'Or award is an annual football award for the best player from the previous year. From 1995 until 2007 the award was open to all players from around the world, as long as they had been been active at European clubs during that year.
Below are the nominees in the final order after voting for the 2004 award. The winner was Andriy Shevchenko, a Ukrainian who played for Milan. Shevchenko is officially the first Ukrainian to win the award, though previously Ukrainians Oleg Blokhin (1975) and Igor Belanov (1986) won the Ballon d'Or when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, and are counted under that country.
See the list of all Ballon d'Or winners.
Final order for the men's 2004 Ballon d'Or
| Order | Player | Club | Nationality | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andriy Shevchenko | Milan | Ukraine | 175 |
| 2 | Deco | Porto / Barcelona | Portugal | 139 |
| 3 | Ronaldinho | Barcelona | Brazil | 133 |
| 4 | Thierry Henry | Arsenal | France | 80 |
| 5 | Theodoros Zagorakis | AEK Athens / Bologna | Greece | 44 |
| 6 | Adriano | Parma / Internazionale | Brazil | 27 |
| 7 | Pavel Nedvěd | Juventus | Czech Republic | 23 |
| 8 | Wayne Rooney | Everton / Manchester United | England | 22 |
| 9 | Ricardo Carvalho | Porto / Chelsea | Portugal | 18 |
| Ruud van Nistelrooy | Manchester United | Netherlands | 18 | |
| 11 | Angelos Charisteas | Werder Bremen | Greece | 15 |
| 12 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Manchester United | Portugal | 11 |
| Milan Baroš | Liverpool | Czech Republic | 11 | |
| 14 | Zlatan Ibrahimović | Ajax / Juventus | Sweden | 8 |
| 15 | Samuel Eto'o | Mallorca / Barcelona | Cameroon | 7 |
| Kaká | Milan | Brazil | 7 | |
| 17 | Traianos Dellas | Roma | Greece | 5 |
| Fernando Morientes | Monaco / Real Madrid | Spain | 5 | |
| Frank Lampard | Chelsea | England | 5 | |
| Didier Drogba | Marseille / Chelsea | Ivory Coast | 5 | |
| Gianluigi Buffon | Juventus | Italy | 5 | |
| 22 | Luís Figo | Real Madrid | Portugal | 4 |
| 23 | Zinedine Zidane | Real Madrid | France | 3 |
| 24 | Rubén Baraja | Valencia | Spain | 2 |
| Ludovic Giuly | Monaco / Barcelona | France | 2 | |
| Maniche | Porto | Portugal | 2 | |
| Antonios Nikopolidis | Panathinaikos / Olympiacos | Greece | 2 | |
| 28 | Paolo Maldini | Milan | Italy | 1 |
| Vicente | Valencia | Spain | 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: 2004
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