1979 Ballon d'Or

1979 Ballon d'Or
1979 Ballon d'Or
	1979 Ballon d'Or winner, Kevin Keegan in 1980
Date	25 December 1979
Presented by	France Football
Highlights
Won by	Kevin Keegan (2nd award)
Website	ballondor.com

The 1979 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 English forward Kevin Keegan on 25 December 1979.^[1] There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.^[2]

Rankings

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Kevin Keegan	Hamburger SV	England	118
2	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Bayern Munich	West Germany	52
3	Ruud Krol	Ajax	Netherlands	41
4	Manfred Kaltz	Hamburger SV	West Germany	27
5	Michel Platini	Saint-Étienne	France	23
6	Paolo Rossi	Perugia	Italy	16
7	Trevor Francis	Nottingham Forest	England	13
7	Liam Brady	Arsenal	Republic of Ireland	13
9	Zbigniew Boniek	Widzew Łódź	Poland	8
9	Zdeněk Nehoda	Dukla Prague	Czechoslovakia	8
11	Kenny Dalglish	Liverpool	Scotland	7
11	Allan Simonsen	Barcelona	Denmark	7
13	Paul Breitner	Bayern Munich	West Germany	6
13	Kees Kist	AZ	Netherlands	6
15	Johnny Rep	Saint-Étienne	Netherlands	5
	Tony Woodcock	1. FC Köln	England
	Hans Krankl	Barcelona	Austria
	Safet Sušić	FK Sarajevo	SFR Yugoslavia
19	Uli Stielike	Real Madrid	West Germany	4
20	Marius Trésor	Marseille	France	3
21	João Alves	Paris Saint-Germain	Portugal	2
	Franco Causio	Juventus	Italy
	Gordon McQueen	Manchester United	Scotland
	René van de Kerkhof	PSV Eindhoven	Netherlands
	Bruno Pezzey	Eintracht Frankfurt	Austria
	Simon Tahamata	Ajax	Netherlands
27	Juan Manuel Asensi	Barcelona	Spain	1
	Trevor Brooking	West Ham United	England
	Ronnie Hellström	Kaiserslautern	Sweden
	Hansi Müller	VfB Stuttgart	West Germany
	Antonín Panenka	Bohemians 1905	Czechoslovakia
	Walter Schachner	Austria Wien	Austria

References

↑ "Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1979 - Kevin Keegan". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
↑ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1979". RSSSF. 1 May 2005. Retrieved 6 July 2020.

External links

France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

[1] "Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1979 - Kevin Keegan". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2020.

[2] "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1979". RSSSF. 1 May 2005. Retrieved 6 July 2020.

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