The 1988 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 Marco van Basten on 27 December 1988.[1] There were 27 voters, from Albania, 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. Van Basten was the third Dutch national to win the award after Johan Cruyff (1971, 1973, 1974) and Ruud Gullit (1987).

1988 Ballon d'Or
1988 Ballon d'Or winner Marco van Basten
Date27 December 1988
Presented byFrance Football
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or
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Rankings

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Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Marco van Basten   Milan   Netherlands 129
2 Ruud Gullit   Milan   Netherlands 88
3 Frank Rijkaard   Milan   Netherlands 45
4 Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko   Dynamo Kyiv   Soviet Union 41
5 Ronald Koeman   PSV Eindhoven   Netherlands 39
6 Lothar Matthäus   Internazionale   West Germany 10
7 Gianluca Vialli   Sampdoria   Italy 7
8 Franco Baresi   Milan   Italy 5
Jürgen Klinsmann   VfB Stuttgart   West Germany 5
Oleksandr Zavarov   Juventus   Soviet Union 5
11 Tanju Çolak   Galatasaray   Turkey 4
Oleh Kuznetsov   Dynamo Kyiv   Soviet Union 4
13 Rinat Dasayev   Sevilla   Soviet Union 3
Anatoliy Demyanenko   Dynamo Kyiv   Soviet Union 3
Glenn Hysén   Fiorentina   Sweden 3
Míchel   Real Madrid   Spain 3
17 Flemming Povlsen   1. FC Köln   Denmark 2
Michel Preud'homme   Mechelen   Belgium 2
Walter Zenga   Internazionale   Italy 2
20 Gheorghe Hagi   Steaua București   Romania 1
Roberto Mancini   Sampdoria   Italy 1
Dejan Savićević   Red Star Belgrade   Yugoslavia 1
Neville Southall   Everton   Wales 1
Dragan Stojković   Red Star Belgrade   Yugoslavia 1

References

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  1. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1988". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 26 March 2005.
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