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2002 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.

Below are the nominees in the final order after voting for the 2002 award. The winner was Brazilian Ronaldo. Ronaldo had also won the award in 1997, at the time he was the youngest ever player to win the Ballon d'Or. See the list of all Ballon d'Or winners.

Final order for the men's 2002 Ballon d'Or

Order Player Club Nationality Points
1 Ronaldo Internazionale /  Real Madrid Brazil 169
2 Roberto Carlos Real Madrid Brazil 145
3 Oliver Kahn Bayern Munich Germany 110
4 Zinedine Zidane Real Madrid France 78
5 Michael Ballack Bayer Leverkusen /  Bayern Munich Germany 71
6 Thierry Henry Arsenal France 54
7 Raúl Real Madrid Spain 38
8 Rivaldo Barcelona / Milan Brazil 31
9 Yıldıray Baştürk Bayer Leverkusen Turkey 13
10 Alessandro Del Piero Juventus Italy 12
11 Hasan Şaş Galatasaray Turkey 10
12 Ronaldinho Paris Saint-Germain Brazil 8
13 Michael Owen Liverpool England 5
  Ruud van Nistelrooy Manchester United Netherlands 5
15 Bernd Schneider Bayer Leverkusen Germany 4
  Juan Carlos Valerón Deportivo La Coruña Spain 4
  Cafu Roma Brazil 4
  Patrick Vieira Arsenal France 4
19 Lúcio Bayer Leverkusen Brazil 3
  Luís Figo Real Madrid Portugal 3
21 Papa Bouba Diop Lens Senegal 2
  El Hadji Diouf Lens / Liverpool Senegal 2
  Rio Ferdinand Leeds United /  Manchester United England 2
24 Rubén Baraja Valencia Spain 1
  Filippo Inzaghi Milan Italy 1
  Roy Makaay Deportivo La Coruña Netherlands 1


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