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1975 Ballon d'Or

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1975 Ballon d'Or
1975 Ballon d'Or winner Oleg Blokhin in 1977
Date30 December 1975
Presented byFrance Football
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Won bySoviet Union Oleg Blokhin (1st award)
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or
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The 1975 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to the Soviet forward Oleg Blokhin on 30 December 1975.[1] There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.[2] Blokhin became the second Soviet (and the first Ukrainian) footballer who won the trophy after Lev Yashin (1963).[3]

Rankings

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Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Oleg Blokhin Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union 122
2 Franz Beckenbauer West Germany Bayern Munich West Germany 42
3 Johan Cruyff Spain Barcelona Netherlands 27
4 Berti Vogts West Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach West Germany 25
5 Sepp Maier West Germany Bayern Munich West Germany 20
6 Ruud Geels Netherlands Ajax Netherlands 18
7 Jupp Heynckes West Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach West Germany 17
8 Paul Breitner Spain Real Madrid West Germany 14
9 Colin Todd England Derby County England 12
10 Dudu Georgescu Romania Dinamo București Romania 11
11 Peter Lorimer England Leeds United Scotland 9
Branko Oblak West Germany Schalke 04 Yugoslavia
Pirri Spain Real Madrid Spain
14 Ralf Edström Netherlands PSV Eindhoven Sweden 6
Günter Netzer Spain Real Madrid West Germany
Dino Zoff Italy Juventus Italy
17 Hristo Bonev Bulgaria Lokomotiv Plovdiv Bulgaria 4
Josip Katalinski France Nice Yugoslavia
Grzegorz Lato Poland Stal Mielec Poland
Gerd Müller West Germany Bayern Munich West Germany
Ivo Viktor Czechoslovakia Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia
22 Ján Pivarník Czechoslovakia Slovan Bratislava Czechoslovakia 3
23 Leonid Buryak Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union 2
Jürgen Croy East Germany Sachsenring Zwickau East Germany
Johan Neeskens Spain Barcelona Netherlands
Jean-Marc Guillou France Nice France
27 João Alves Portugal Boavista Portugal 1
Dragan Džajić France Bastia Yugoslavia
Giacinto Facchetti Italy Internazionale Italy
Don Givens England Queens Park Rangers Republic of Ireland
Pat Jennings England Tottenham Hotspur Northern Ireland
Allan Simonsen West Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach Denmark

References

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  1. ^ "Palmarès Ballon d'Or – 1975 – Oleg Blokhine". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  2. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1975". RSSSF. 1 May 2005. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  3. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF. 21 January 2011. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
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