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Ballon d’Or Winners list: Messi, Ronaldo and every award recipient from 1956 to 2024

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Ballon d'Or: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo headlined the awards for over a decade since 2008. (Reuters)Ballon d’Or: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo headlined the awards for over a decade since 2008. (Reuters)

Ballon d’Or 2024: The 68th edition of the iconic Ballon d’Or award will be presented by France Football at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris on Monday evening.

Started in the year 1956, the Ballon d’Or represents the highest individual prize in world football and is being conducted by France Football in collaboration with the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for the first time this season.

Argentine superstar Lionel Messi has won the award a record eight times. Messi is followed by his long-time European club football rival, Cristiano Ronaldo, who bagged the award five times between 2008 and 2017 while receiving a record 18 nominations since 2003.

Prior to the Messi-Ronaldo domination, only three other  players – Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff and Marco van Basten – had lifted the Ballon d’Or thrice in their careers.

While Ronaldo and Messi have missed the cut for the 2024 Ballon d’Or for the first time in over two decades, Real Madrid and Brazil forward Vinicus Jr. has been marked as the hot favourite to claim the award for the 2023-24 season.

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Ballon d’Or winners list

Year Player Nationality Club
1956 Stanley Matthews England Blackpool
1957 Alfredo Di Stefano Argentina/Spain Real Madrid
1958 Raymond Kopa France Real Madrid
1959 Alfredo Di Stefano Argentina/Spain Real Madrid
1960 Luis Suárez Spain Barcelona
1961 Omar Sivori Italy Juventus
1962 Josef Masopust Czechoslovakia Dukla Prague
1963 Lev Yashin Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow
1964 Denis Law England Manchester United
1965 Eusébio Portugal Benfica
1966 Bobby Charlton England Manchester United
1967 Flórián Albert Hungary Ferencváros
1968 George Best Northern Ireland Manchester United
1969 Gianni Rivera Italy Milan
1970 Gerd Müller West Germany Bayern Munich
1971 Johan Cruyff Netherlands Ajax
1972 Franz Beckenbauer West Germany Bayern Munich
1973 Johan Cruyff Netherlands Barcelona
1974 Johan Cruyff Netherlands Barcelona
1975 Oleg Blokhin Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv
1976 Franz Beckenbauer West Germany Bayern Munich
1977 Allan Simonsen Denmark Borussia Mönchengladbach
1978 Kevin Keegan England Hamburger SV
1979 Kevin Keegan England Hamburger SV
1980 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge West Germany Bayern Munich
1981 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge West Germany Bayern Munich
1982 Paolo Rossi Italy Juventus
1983 Michel Platini France Juventus
1984 Michel Platini France Juventus
1985 Michel Platini France Juventus
1986 Igor Belanov Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv
1987 Ruud Gullit Netherlands Milan
1988 Marco van Basten Netherlands Milan
1989 Marco van Basten Netherlands Inter Milan
1990 Lothar Matthäus Germany Inter Milan
1991 Jean-Pierre Papin France Marselle
1992 Marco van Basten Netherlands Inter Milan
1993 Roberto Baggio Italy Juventus
1994 Hristo Stoichkov Bulgaria Barcelona
1995 George Weah Liberia Milan
1996 Matthias Sammer Germany Borussia Dortmund
1997 Ronaldo Brazil Inter Milan
1998 Zinedine Zidane France Juventus
1999 Rivaldo Brazil Barcelona
2000 Luís Figo Portugal Real Madrid
2001 Michael Owen England Liverpool
2002 Ronaldo Brazil Real Madrid
2003 Pavel Nedvěd Czechia Juventus
2004 Andriy Shevchenko Ukraine Milan
2005 Ronaldinho Brazil Barcelona
2006 Fabio Cannavaro Italy Real Madrid
2007 Kaká Brazil Milan
2008 Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal Manchester United
2009 Lionel Messi Argentina Barcelona
2010 Lionel Messi Argentina Barcelona
2011 Lionel Messi Argentina Barcelona
2012 Lionel Messi Argentina Barcelona
2013 Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal Real Madrid
2014 Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal Real Madrid
2015 Lionel Messi Argentina Barcelona
2016 Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal Real Madrid
2017 Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal Real Madrid
2018 Luka Modric Croatia Real Madrid
2019 Lionel Messi Argentina Barcelona
2020 Not awarded ——
2021 Lionel Messi Argentina Paris-Saint Germain
2022 Karim Benzema France Real Madrid
2023 Lionel Messi Argentina Inter Miami
2024 TBA

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