List of Ballon d'Or Past Winners, history since 1956 to 2019

All-time Ballon d'Or Past Winners List 1956- 2019. 

The Ballon d'Or or the FIFA Ballon d'Or award has given to the Best World Player of the Year, is the most prestigious individual award in football (Soccer).
The original Ballon d'Or, also known as the European Footballer of the Year award, had been awarded by the French publication France Football since 1956.
The FIFA World Player of the Year award was presented by FIFA, the sport's governing body, from 1991.

Originally a single award for the world's best men's player, parallels awards for men and women were awarded from 2001–2009. The men's award was subsumed into the FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2010 while the women's award remained until 2015. After 2015 both men's and women's awards became part of The Best FIFA Football Awards.

Cristiano Ronaldo has won the Most titles of FIFA Ballon d'Or & the FIFA World Player of the Year with 5th times.
Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff, & Marco van Basten won the Ballon d'Or title with 3 times.
From 2016, France Football reintroduced the previous format of the Ballon d'Or, while FIFA created The Best FIFA Men's Player award.

The 2017 Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo equalized record of 5th times shared with Lionel Messi.
The 2018 World Cup Runners-up team Croatian Luka Modric is the current winner of The Best FIFA Football award


Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d'Or award 2019 for the world's best player for a record sixth time.  
Argentine's 32, first Ballon d'Or since 2015 and comes after he scored 54 times for club and country in 2018-19. 
Virgil van Dijk was second - and one of his rival Cristiano Ronaldo got third, Liverpool's Sadio Mane in fourth.

Ballon d'Or, Best Footballer of the year award - (1956-2009).

FIFA Ballon d'Or Award   -  (2010 - 2015).

Ballon d'Or  -  - -  (2016 - onward)



Luka Modric break the 9 years record of Barcelona Star, Lionel Messi, & Portuguese Star Cristiano Ronaldo, both equally shared the Five-time Ballon d'Or winners since 2007 when the Brazilian Kaka won the Ballon d'Or. 
Now Croatian, 33, Luka Modric is the Ballon d'Or winner 2108.

All-time Ballon d'Or Past winners List by year.

List of previous winners of FIFA Ballon d'Or - FIFA Player of the Year Awards Past Winners List Since 1956 to 2018, recently previous winners from 2010-2015 to 2019 -present.





1956     -       Stanley Matthews

1957     -       Alfredo Di Stefano

1958     -       Raymond Kopa

1959     -       Alfredo Di Stefano

1960     -       Luis Suarez

1961     -       Omar Sivori

1962     -       Josef Masopust

1963     -       Lev Yashin

1964     -       Denis Law

1965     -       Eusebio

1966     -       Bobby Charlton

1967     -       Florian Albert

1968     -       George Best

1969     -       Gianni Rivera

1970     -       Gerd Muller

1971     -       Johan Cruyff

1972     -       Franz Beckenbauer

1973     -       Johan Cruyff

1974     -       Johan Cruyff

1975     -       Oleg Blokhin

1976     -       Franz Beckenbauer

1977     -       Allan Simonsen

1978     -       Kevin Keegan

1979     -       Kevin Keegan

1980     -       Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

1981     -       Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

1982     -       Paolo Rossi

1983     -       Michel Platini

1984     -       Michel Platini

1985     -       Michel Platini

1986     -       Igor Belanov

1987     -       Ruud Gullit

1988     -       Marco van Basten

1989     -       Marco van Basten

1990     -       Lothar Matthaus

1991     -       Jean-Pierre Papin

1992     -       Marco van Basten

1993     -       Roberto Baggio

1994     -       Hristo Stoichkov

1995     -       George Weah

1996     -       Matthias Sammer

1997     -       Ronaldo

1998     -       Zinedine Zidane

1999     -       Rivaldo

2000     -       Luis Figo  -  (Portugal)

2001     -       Michael Owen   -  (England)

2002     -       Ronaldo  -  (Brazil)

2003     -       Pavel Nedved  -  (Czech Republic)

2004     -       Andriy Shevchenko  -   (Ukraine)

2005     -       Ronaldinho  -  (Brazil)

2006     -       Fabio Cannavaro  -   (Italy)

2007     -       Kaka  -   (Brazil)

2008     -       Cristiano Ronalda  -  (Portugal)

o 2009     -       Lionel Messi  -  (Argentina)

2010     -       Lionel Messi  -  (Argentina)

2011     -       Lionel Messi  -  (Argentina)

2012     -       Lionel Messi  -  (Argentina)

2013     -       Cristiano Ronaldo   -   (Portugal)

2014     -       Cristiano Ronaldo  -  (Portugal)

2015     -       Lionel Messi  -  (Argentina)

2016     -       Cristiano Ronaldo  -  (Portugal)

2017      -    Cristiano Ronaldo -- CR 7     - (Portugal)   

2018     -       Luka Modric    -  (Croatia)

2019     -      Lionel Messi  -   Argentina - Barcelona.

2020     -      







List of FIFA Ballon d'Or wins by Players.




Lionel Messi      6
Cristiano Ronaldo       5

Michel Platini      3

Johan Cruyff       3

Marco van Basten      3

Franz Beckenbauer     2

Ronaldo      2

Alfredo Di Stefano     2

Kevin Keegan      2