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1967 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 1967 award. The winner was Hungarian player Flórián Albert. Albert was the first player (and only player so far) from Hungary to win the award. See the list of all Ballon d'Or winners.

Final order for the men's 1967 Ballon d'Or

Order Player Club Nationality Points
1 Flórián Albert Ferencváros Hungary 68
2 Bobby Charlton Manchester United England 40
3 Jimmy Johnstone Celtic Scotland 39
4 Franz Beckenbauer Bayern Munich West Germany 37
5 Eusébio Benfica Portugal 26
6 Tommy Gemmell Celtic Scotland 21
7 Gerd Müller Bayern Munich West Germany 19
8 George Best Manchester United Northern Ireland 18
9 Igor Chislenko Dynamo Moscow Soviet Union 9
10 János Farkas Vasas Hungary 8
  Sandro Mazzola Internazionale Italy 8
  Pirri Real Madrid Spain 8
13 Gigi Riva Cagliari Italy 6
  Eduard Streltsov Torpedo Moscow Soviet Union 6
15 Anatoliy Byshovets Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union 5
16 Alan Ball Everton England 4
  Helmut Haller Bologna West Germany 4
  Włodzimierz Lubański Górnik Zabrze Poland 4
  Gianni Rivera Milan Italy 4
20 Zvezdan Čebinac PSV Eindhoven / 1. FC Nürnberg Yugoslavia 3
  Giacinto Facchetti Internazionale Italy 3
  Geoff Hurst West Ham United England 3
  Wolfgang Overath 1. FC Köln West Germany 3
  Paul Van Himst Anderlecht Belgium 3
25 Nikola Kotkov Lokomotiv Sofia Bulgaria 2
  Valery Voronin Torpedo Moscow Soviet Union 2
27 José Augusto Benfica Portugal 1
  Johnny Bjerregaard Rapid Wien Denmark 1
  Néstor Combin Torino France 1
  Johan Cruyff Ajax Netherlands 1
  Pedro de Felipe Real Madrid Spain 1
  Louis Pilot Standard Liège Luxembourg 1
  Ove Kindvall Feyenoord Sweden 1
  Zygfryd Szołtysik Górnik Zabrze Poland 1


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