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 |
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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 |
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: 1958
