The Ballon d'Or award is an annual football award for the best player from the previous year. Up until 1995 it was awarded only to football players from Europe and was generally known as the European Footballer of the Year award.
Below are the nominees in the final order after voting for the 1969 award. The winner was Italian Gianni Rivera, who played for A.C. Milan. See the list of all Ballon d'Or winners.
Final order for the men's 1969 Ballon d'Or
Order | Player | Club | Nationality | Points |
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1 | Gianni Rivera | A.C. Milan | Italy | 83 |
2 | Gigi Riva | Cagliari | Italy | 79 |
3 | Gerd Müller | Bayern Munich | West Germany | 38 |
4 | Johan Cruyff | Ajax | Netherlands | 30 |
Ove Kindvall | Feyenoord | Sweden | 30 | |
6 | George Best | Manchester United | Northern Ireland | 21 |
7 | Franz Beckenbauer | Bayern Munich | West Germany | 18 |
8 | Pierino Prati | Milan | Italy | 17 |
9 | Petar Zhekov | CSKA Sofia | Bulgaria | 14 |
10 | Jack Charlton | Leeds United | England | 10 |
11 | Albert Shesternyov | CSKA Moscow | Soviet Union | 8 |
12 | Dragan Džajić | Red Star Belgrade | Yugoslavia | 6 |
13 | Francis Lee | Manchester City | England | 4 |
Martin Peters | West Ham United | England | 4 | |
15 | Jozef Adamec | Spartak Trnava | Czechoslovakia | 3 |
Bobby Charlton | Manchester United | England | 3 | |
Angelo Sormani | Milan | Italy | 3 | |
18 | Ferenc Bene | Újpest | Hungary | 2 |
Andrej Kvašňák | KRC Mechelen | Czechoslovakia | 2 | |
Louis Pilot | Standard Liège | Luxembourg | 2 | |
Giorgos Sideris | Olympiacos | Greece | 2 | |
Manuel Velázquez | Real Madrid | Spain | 2 | |
23 | Billy Bremner | Leeds United | Scotland | 1 |
Kazimierz Deyna | Legia Warsaw | Poland | 1 | |
Mimis Domazos | Panathinaikos | Greece | 1 | |
Gilbert Gress | VfB Stuttgart | France | 1 | |
Jimmy Johnstone | Celtic | Scotland | 1 | |
Włodzimierz Lubański | Górnik Zabrze | Poland | 1 | |
Vladimir Muntyan | Dynamo Kyiv | Soviet Union | 1 | |
Wilfried Van Moer | Standard Liège | Belgium | 1 | |
Ivo Viktor | Dukla Prague | Czechoslovakia | 1 |
Related Pages
- Ballon d'Or Home
- Men's Ballon d'Or Winner's List
- Football Awards Lists
- List of the FIFA male player of the year and FIFA female player of the year.
- History of the Ballon d'Or
- The Year in Sport: 1969