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Ballon d’Or Quiz — Who Won the Ballon d’Or?

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This Ballon d’Or quiz has 23 questions on the winners from 1956 to 2025: name the player who won it in a given year. Tap a question to see the answer. Between 1956 and 2025, Lionel Messi won the most awards: eight, in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2023. Every winner is listed below.

Ballon d’Or quiz questions

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  1. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1958?

    Raymond Kopa.

  2. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1961?

    Omar Sívori.

  3. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1964?

    Denis Law.

  4. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1967?

    Flórián Albert.

  5. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1970?

    Gerd Müller.

  6. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1973?

    Johan Cruyff. He won it three times between 1956 and 2025: 1971, 1973 and 1974.

  7. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1976?

    Franz Beckenbauer. He won it two times between 1956 and 2025: 1972 and 1976.

  8. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1979?

    Kevin Keegan. He won it two times between 1956 and 2025: 1978 and 1979.

  9. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1982?

    Paolo Rossi.

  10. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1985?

    Michel Platini. He won it three times between 1956 and 2025: 1983, 1984 and 1985.

  11. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1988?

    Marco van Basten. He won it three times between 1956 and 2025: 1988, 1989 and 1992.

  12. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1991?

    Jean-Pierre Papin.

  13. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1994?

    Hristo Stoichkov.

  14. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 1997?

    Ronaldo. He won it two times between 1956 and 2025: 1997 and 2002.

  15. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 2000?

    Luís Figo.

  16. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 2003?

    Pavel Nedvěd.

  17. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 2006?

    Fabio Cannavaro.

  18. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 2009?

    Lionel Messi. He won it eight times between 1956 and 2025: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2023.

  19. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 2012?

    Lionel Messi. He won it eight times between 1956 and 2025: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2023.

  20. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 2015?

    Lionel Messi. He won it eight times between 1956 and 2025: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2023.

  21. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 2018?

    Luka Modrić.

  22. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 2022?

    Karim Benzema.

  23. Who won the Ballon d’Or in 2025?

    Ousmane Dembélé.

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Players who won it more than once, 1956–2025

  • Lionel Messi: 8 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023)
  • Cristiano Ronaldo: 5 (2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)
  • Johan Cruyff: 3 (1971, 1973, 1974)
  • Michel Platini: 3 (1983, 1984, 1985)
  • Marco van Basten: 3 (1988, 1989, 1992)
  • Alfredo Di Stéfano: 2 (1957, 1959)
  • Franz Beckenbauer: 2 (1972, 1976)
  • Kevin Keegan: 2 (1978, 1979)
  • Karl-Heinz Rummenigge: 2 (1980, 1981)
  • Ronaldo: 2 (1997, 2002)

Every Ballon d’Or winner, 1956–2025

YearWinner
1956Stanley Matthews
1957Alfredo Di Stéfano
1958Raymond Kopa
1959Alfredo Di Stéfano
1960Luis Suárez Miramontes
1961Omar Sívori
1962Josef Masopust
1963Lev Yashin
1964Denis Law
1965Eusébio
1966Bobby Charlton
1967Flórián Albert
1968George Best
1969Gianni Rivera
1970Gerd Müller
1971Johan Cruyff
1972Franz Beckenbauer
1973Johan Cruyff
1974Johan Cruyff
1975Oleh Blokhin
1976Franz Beckenbauer
1977Allan Simonsen
1978Kevin Keegan
1979Kevin Keegan
1980Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
1981Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
1982Paolo Rossi
1983Michel Platini
1984Michel Platini
1985Michel Platini
1986Igor Belanov
1987Ruud Gullit
1988Marco van Basten
1989Marco van Basten
1990Lothar Matthäus
1991Jean-Pierre Papin
1992Marco van Basten
1993Roberto Baggio
1994Hristo Stoichkov
1995George Weah
1996Matthias Sammer
1997Ronaldo
1998Zinedine Zidane
1999Rivaldo
2000Luís Figo
2001Michael Owen
2002Ronaldo
2003Pavel Nedvěd
2004Andriy Shevchenko
2005Ronaldinho
2006Fabio Cannavaro
2007Kaká
2008Cristiano Ronaldo
2009Lionel Messi
2010Lionel Messi
2011Lionel Messi
2012Lionel Messi
2013Cristiano Ronaldo
2014Cristiano Ronaldo
2015Lionel Messi
2016Cristiano Ronaldo
2017Cristiano Ronaldo
2018Luka Modrić
2019Lionel Messi
2021Lionel Messi
2022Karim Benzema
2023Lionel Messi
2024Rodri
2025Ousmane Dembélé

Each year links to the Wikipedia article the fact was taken from; every fact is cross-checked against Wikidata.

Ballon d’Or quiz: questions and answers

Who won the first Ballon d’Or?

Stanley Matthews, in 1956.

Was the Ballon d’Or awarded every year?

Every year from 1956 to 2025 except 2020, when it was not awarded.

What was the FIFA Ballon d’Or?

From 2010 to 2015 the award was merged with FIFA’s player of the year award and called the FIFA Ballon d’Or. The quiz counts those six years as Ballon d’Or wins.

Where do the answers come from?

Each winner is taken from its Wikipedia article and cross-checked against Wikidata, the open database behind Wikipedia. A fact the two sources disagree on is left out. Nations and clubs are named as they were at the time, so West Germany and the Soviet Union appear under those names.

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