1986 Ballon d'Or

The 1986 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 Soviet forward Igor Belanov on 30 December 1986.[1] There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.[2]

1986 Ballon d'Or winner Igor Belanov

Belanov became the third Soviet national who win the award after Lev Yashin (1963) and Oleh Blokhin (1975).

Rankings
Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1Igor Belanov Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union84
2Gary Lineker Everton
Barcelona		 England62
3Emilio Butragueño Real Madrid Spain59
4Manuel Amoros Monaco France22
Preben Elkjær Larsen Hellas Verona Denmark
6Ian Rush Liverpool Wales20
Oleksandr Zavarov Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union
8Helmuth Duckadam Steaua București Romania10
Marco van Basten Ajax Netherlands
10Alessandro Altobelli Internazionale Italy9
11Jean-Marie Pfaff Bayern Munich Belgium8
Michel Platini Juventus France
13Jan Ceulemans Club Brugge Belgium7
Søren Lerby Monaco Denmark
15Morten Olsen Anderlecht
1. FC Köln		 Denmark6
16Rinat Dasayev Spartak Moscow Soviet Union5
17Luis Fernández Paris Saint-Germain
RC Paris		 France4
Paulo Futre Porto Portugal
Ruud Gullit PSV Eindhoven Netherlands
Toni Schumacher 1. FC Köln West Germany
21Kenny Dalglish Liverpool Scotland3
Jean Tigana Bordeaux France
Pavlo Yakovenko Dynamo Kyiv Soviet Union
24Karlheinz Förster VfB Stuttgart
Marseille		 West Germany2
Lothar Matthäus Bayern Munich West Germany
26Michael Laudrup Juventus Denmark1
Rudi Völler Werder Bremen West Germany

Notes and references
  1. "Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1986 - Igor Belanov". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  2. "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1986". RSSSF. 26 March 2005. Retrieved 2 April 2015.


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