1998 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.
Zidane's Ballon d'Or from 1998 Below are the nominees in the final order after voting for the 1998 award. The winner was French player Zinedine Zidane who played for Juventus. Also on the nomination list were two sets of brothers: Frank and Ronald De Boers, and Brian and Michael Laudrups. See the list of all Ballon d'Or winners.
Final order for the men's 1998 Ballon d'Or
| Order | Player | Club | Nationality | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zinedine Zidane | Juventus | France | 244 |
| 2 | Davor Šuker | Real Madrid | Croatia | 68 |
| 3 | Ronaldo | Internazionale | Brazil | 66 |
| 4 | Michael Owen | Liverpool | England | 51 |
| 5 | Rivaldo | Barcelona | Brazil | 45 |
| 6 | Gabriel Batistuta | Fiorentina | Argentina | 43 |
| 7 | Lilian Thuram | Parma | France | 36 |
| 8 | Edgar Davids | Juventus | Netherlands | 28 |
| Dennis Bergkamp | Arsenal | Netherlands | 28 | |
| 10 | Marcel Desailly | Chelsea | France | 19 |
| 11 | Frank de Boer | Ajax | Netherlands | 17 |
| 12 | Emmanuel Petit | Arsenal | France | 16 |
| 13 | Roberto Carlos | Real Madrid | Brazil | 13 |
| 14 | Laurent Blanc | Marseille | France | 11 |
| Fabien Barthez | Monaco | France | 11 | |
| 16 | Alessandro Del Piero | Juventus | Italy | 10 |
| Predrag Mijatović | Real Madrid | Yugoslavia | 10 | |
| 18 | Didier Deschamps | Juventus | France | 9 |
| Oliver Bierhoff | Milan | Germany | 9 | |
| 20 | Michael Laudrup | Ajax | Denmark | 6 |
| 21 | Ronald de Boer | Ajax | Netherlands | 4 |
| Raúl | Real Madrid | Spain | 4 | |
| 23 | Brian Laudrup | Chelsea | Denmark | 3 |
| Clarence Seedorf | Real Madrid | Netherlands | 3 | |
| Marc Overmars | Arsenal | Netherlands | 3 | |
| 26 | Christian Vieri | Lazio | Italy | 2 |
| Fernando Hierro | Real Madrid | Spain | 2 | |
| 28 | David Beckham | Manchester United | England | 1 |
| Luis Enrique | Barcelona | Spain | 1 | |
| Bixente Lizarazu | Bayern Munich | France | 1 | |
| Nikos Machlas | Vitesse | Greece | 1 |
Related Pages
- Ballon d'Or Home
- Men's Ballon d'Or Winner's List
- Player profile of Zinedine Zidane
- 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: 1998
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