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1958 Ballon d'Or Results

The Ballon d'Or award is an annual 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 1958 award. The winner was Raymond Kopa. See the list of all Ballon d'Or winners.

Final order for the men's 1958 Ballon d'Or

Order Player Club Nationality Points
1 Raymond Kopa Real Madrid France 71
2 Helmut Rahn Rot-Weiss Essen West Germany 40
3 Just Fontaine Reims France 23
4 John Charles Juventus Wales 15
Kurt Hamrin Padova / Fiorentina Sweden 15
6 Billy Wright Wolverhampton Wanderers England 9
7 Johnny Haynes Fulham England 7
8 Harry Gregg Manchester United Northern Ireland 6
Nils Liedholm Milan Sweden
Horst Szymaniak Wuppertaler SV West Germany 6
11 Colin McDonald Burnley England 5
12 Francisco Gento Real Madrid Spain 4
Gunnar Gren Örgryte IS Sweden 4
14 Vujadin Boškov Vojvodina Yugoslavia 3
Bengt Gustavsson Atalanta Sweden 3
Valentin Ivanov Torpedo Moskva Soviet Union 3
Luis Suárez Barcelona Spain 3
Lev Yashin Dynamo Moscow Soviet Union 3
19 Orvar Bergmark Örebro SK Sweden 2
Danny Blanchflower Tottenham Hotspur Northern Ireland 2
Ivan Kolev CDNA Sofia Bulgaria 2
Bruno Nicolè Juventus Italy 2
Ladislav Novák Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia 2
Lennart Skoglund Internazionale Sweden 2
25 Giampiero Boniperti Juventus Italy 1
Gerhard Hanappi Rapid Wien Austria 1


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