1985 Ballon d'Or

1985 Ballon d'Or
1985 Ballon d'Or
	1985 Ballon d'Or winner, Michel Platini in 1986
Date	24 December 1985
Presented by	France Football
Highlights
Won by	Michel Platini (3rd award)
Website	ballondor.com

The 1985 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 Michel Platini on 24 December 1985.^[1]^[2]

Rankings

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Michel Platini	Juventus	France	127
2	Preben Elkjær	Hellas Verona	Denmark	71
3	Bernd Schuster	Barcelona	West Germany	46
4	Michael Laudrup	Juventus	Denmark	14
5	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Internazionale	West Germany	13
6	Zbigniew Boniek	Roma	Poland	12
7	Oleh Protasov	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk	Soviet Union	10
8	Hans-Peter Briegel	Hellas Verona	West Germany	9
9	Bryan Robson	Manchester United	England	8
9	Rinat Dasayev	Spartak Moscow	Soviet Union	8
11	Rudi Völler	Werder Bremen	West Germany	7
12	Luis Fernández	Paris Saint-Germain	France	6
12	Søren Lerby	Bayern Munich	Denmark	6
14	Rafael Gordillo	Real Madrid	Spain	5
14	Ian Rush	Liverpool	Wales	5
16	Emilio Butragueño	Real Madrid	Spain	4
16	Fernando Gomes	Porto	Portugal	4
18	Harald Schumacher	1. FC Köln	West Germany	3
	John Sivebæk	Vejle	Denmark
	Neville Southall	Everton	Wales
21	Lajos Détári	Budapest Honvéd	Hungary	2
	Alain Giresse	Bordeaux	France
	Vahid Halilhodžić	Nantes	Yugoslavia
	Tibor Nyilasi	Austria Wien	Hungary
	Peter Reid	Everton	England
	Peter Shilton	Southampton	England
	Graeme Souness	Sampdoria	Scotland
	Pat Jennings	Tottenham Hotspur	Northern Ireland
29	Steve Archibald	Barcelona	Scotland	1
	Jan Ceulemans	Club Brugge	Belgium
	Anatoliy Demyanenko	Dinamo Kyiv	Soviet Union
	Georgi Dimitrov	CSKA Sofia	Bulgaria
	Gheorghe Hagi	Sportul Studențesc	Romania
	Mark Hateley	Milan	England
	Herbert Prohaska	Austria Wien	Austria
	Gary Stevens	Everton	England
	Andreas Thom	Dynamo Berlin	East Germany
	Ladislav Vízek	Dukla Prague	Czechoslovakia

References

↑ "Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1985 - Michel Platini". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
↑ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1985". RSSSF. 1 May 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

External links

France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

[1] "Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1985 - Michel Platini". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

[2] "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1985". RSSSF. 1 May 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

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