1975 Ballon d'Or

The 1975 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 the Soviet forward Oleg Blokhin on 30 December 1975.[1] There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.[2]

Blokhin became the second Soviet (and the first Ukrainian) footballer who won the trophy after Lev Yashin (1963).[3]

Rankings
Rank Name Club Nationality Points
1Oleg Blokhin Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union122
2Franz Beckenbauer Bayern Munich West Germany42
3Johan Cruyff Barcelona Netherlands27
4Berti Vogts Borussia Mönchengladbach West Germany25
5Sepp Maier Bayern Munich West Germany20
6Ruud Geels Ajax Netherlands18
7Jupp Heynckes Borussia Mönchengladbach West Germany17
8Paul Breitner Real Madrid West Germany14
9Colin Todd Derby County England12
10Dudu Georgescu Dinamo București Romania11
11Peter Lorimer Leeds United Scotland9
Branko Oblak Schalke 04 Yugoslavia
Pirri Real Madrid Spain
14Ralf Edström PSV Eindhoven Sweden6
Günter Netzer Real Madrid West Germany
Dino Zoff Juventus Italy
17Hristo Bonev Lokomotiv Plovdiv Bulgaria4
Josip Katalinski OGC Nice Yugoslavia
Grzegorz Lato Stal Mielec Poland
Gerd Müller Bayern Munich West Germany
Ivo Viktor Dukla Prague Czechoslovakia
22Ján Pivarník Slovan Bratislava Czechoslovakia3
23Leonid Buryak Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union2
Jürgen Croy Sachsenring Zwickau East Germany
Johan Neeskens FC Barcelona Netherlands
Jean-Marc Guillou OGC Nice France
27João Resende Alves Boavista Portugal1
Dragan Džajić SC Bastia Yugoslavia
Giacinto Facchetti Internazionale Italy
Don Givens Queens Park Rangers Republic of Ireland
Pat Jennings Tottenham Hotspur Northern Ireland
Allan Simonsen Borussia Mönchengladbach Denmark

References
  1. "Palmarès Ballon d'Or – 1975 – Oleg Blokhine". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  2. "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1975". RSSSF. 1 May 2005. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  3. "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF. 21 January 2011. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
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