1978 Ballon d'Or

1978 Ballon d'Or
1978 Ballon d'Or
	1978 Ballon d'Or winner Kevin Keegan
Date	27 December 1978
Presented by	France Football
Website	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1978 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 English forward Kevin Keegan on 27 December 1978.^[1] There were 26 voters, from 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.^[2]

Rankings

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Kevin Keegan	Hamburger SV	England	87
2	Hans Krankl	Barcelona	Austria	81
3	Rob Rensenbrink	Anderlecht	Netherlands	50
4	Roberto Bettega	Juventus	Italy	28
5	Paolo Rossi	L.R. Vicenza	Italy	23
6	Ronnie Hellström	Kaiserslautern	Sweden	20
6	Ruud Krol	Ajax	Netherlands	20
8	Kenny Dalglish	Liverpool	Scotland	10
8	Allan Simonsen	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Denmark	10
10	Peter Shilton	Nottingham Forest	England	9
11	Arie Haan	Anderlecht	Netherlands	7
12	René van de Kerkhof	PSV Eindhoven	Netherlands	6
13	Antonio Cabrini	Juventus	Italy	5
13	Willy van de Kerkhof	PSV Eindhoven	Netherlands	5
15	Johan Cruyff	Barcelona	Netherlands	4
	Graeme Souness	Liverpool	Scotland
	Zdeněk Nehoda	Dukla Prague	Czechoslovakia
18	Marián Masný	Slovan Bratislava	Czechoslovakia	3
19	Archie Gemmill	Nottingham Forest	Scotland	2
19	Marius Trésor	Marseille	France	2
21	João Alves	Benfica	Portugal	1
	Rainer Bonhof	Valencia	West Germany
	Zbigniew Boniek	Widzew Łódź	Poland
	Franco Causio	Juventus	Italy
	Hansi Müller	VfB Stuttgart	West Germany
	Johan Neeskens	Barcelona	Netherlands
	Michel Platini	Nancy	France
	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Bayern Munich	West Germany
	Didier Six	Marseille	France
	François Van Der Elst	Anderlecht	Belgium