1980 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 1980 award. The winner was Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. See the list of all Ballon d'Or winners.
Final order for the men's 1980 Ballon d'Or
| Order | Player | Club | Nationality | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | Bayern Munich | West Germany | 122 |
| 2 | Bernd Schuster | Barcelona | West Germany | 34 |
| 3 | Michel Platini | Saint-Étienne | France | 33 |
| 4 | Wilfried Van Moer | Beveren | Belgium | 27 |
| 5 | Jan Ceulemans | Club Brugge | Belgium | 20 |
| 6 | Horst Hrubesch | Hamburger SV | West Germany | 18 |
| 7 | Herbert Prohaska[notes 1] | Internazionale | Austria | 14 |
| 8 | Hansi Müller | VfB Stuttgart | West Germany | 11 |
| Liam Brady | Juventus | Republic of Ireland | 11 | |
| 10 | Manfred Kaltz | Hamburger SV | West Germany | 10 |
| 11 | Erwin Vandenbergh | Lierse | Belgium | 9 |
| Luis Arconada | Real Sociedad | Spain | 9 | |
| Dino Zoff | Juventus | Italy | 9 | |
| 14 | Kenny Dalglish | Liverpool | Scotland | 5 |
| Bruno Pezzey[notes 2] | Eintracht Frankfurt | Austria | 5 | |
| 16 | Terry McDermott | Liverpool | England | 4 |
| Viv Anderson | Nottingham Forest | England | 4 | |
| Ruud Krol | Napoli | Netherlands | 4 | |
| Francesco Graziani | Torino | Italy | 4 | |
| 20 | Ladislav Vízek | Dukla Prague | Czechoslovakia | 3 |
| Manuel Bento | Benfica | Portugal | 3 | |
| 22 | Frank Arnesen | Ajax | Denmark | 2 |
| Antonín Panenka | Bohemians 1905 | Czechoslovakia | 2 | |
| David O'Leary | Arsenal | Republic of Ireland | 2 | |
| Vladimir Petrović | Red Star Belgrade | SFR Yugoslavia | 2 | |
| Zbigniew Boniek | Widzew Łódź | Poland | 2 | |
| 27 | Giancarlo Antognoni | Fiorentina | Italy | 1 |
| Alessandro Altobelli | Internazionale | Italy | 1 | |
| Marcel Răducanu | Steaua București | Romania | 1 | |
| Trevor Francis | Nottingham Forest | England | 1 | |
| Zdeněk Nehoda | Dukla Prague | Czechoslovakia | 1 | |
| Peter Shilton | Nottingham Forest | England | 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: 1980
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