1958 Ballon d'Or

1958 Ballon d'Or
1958 Ballon d'Or winner Raymond Kopa
Date	16 December 1958
Location	Paris, France
Presented by	France Football
Highlights
Won by	Raymond Kopa (1st award)
Website	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1958 Ballon d'Or was the third Ballon d'Or awarded. It was given to the best footballer in Europe as chosen by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries. It was won by Real Madrid forward Raymond Kopa on 16 December 1958.

Rankings

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Raymond Kopa	Real Madrid	France	71
2	Helmut Rahn	Rot-Weiss Essen	West Germany	40
3	Just Fontaine	Reims	France	23
4	John Charles	Juventus	Wales	15
	Kurt Hamrin	Padova Fiorentina	Sweden
6	Billy Wright	Wolverhampton Wanderers	England	9
7	Johnny Haynes	Fulham	England	7
8	Harry Gregg	Manchester United	Northern Ireland	6
	Nils Liedholm	Milan	Sweden
	Horst Szymaniak	Wuppertaler SV	West Germany
11	Colin McDonald	Burnley	England	5
12	Paco Gento	Real Madrid	Spain	4
	Gunnar Gren	Örgryte IS	Sweden
14	Vujadin Boškov	Vojvodina	Yugoslavia	3
	Bengt Gustavsson	Atalanta	Sweden
	Valentin Ivanov	Torpedo Moskva	Soviet Union
	Luis Suárez	Barcelona	Spain
	Lev Yashin	Dynamo Moscow	Soviet Union
19	Orvar Bergmark	Örebro SK	Sweden	2
	Danny Blanchflower	Tottenham Hotspur	Northern Ireland
	Ivan Kolev	CDNA Sofia	Bulgaria
	Bruno Nicolè	Juventus	Italy
	Ladislav Novák	Dukla Prague	Czechoslovakia
	Lennart Skoglund	Internazionale	Sweden
25	Giampiero Boniperti	Juventus	Italy	1
	Gerhard Hanappi	Rapid Wien	Austria

Other websites

• France Football Official Ballon d'Or page