Ballon d'Or awards revisited by BigSoccer users

1980s with Gutigut's new 1989 podium reflected (no positional change in the consensus order):

1980 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Diego Maradona (Argentina/Argentinos Juniors) - 168
2 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (W.Germany/Bayern Munich) - 133.5
3 Zico (Brazil/Flamengo) - 98.5
4 Bernd Schuster (W.Germany/Cologne/Barcelona) - 32.5
5 Michel Platini (France/St Etienne) - 24
6 Jan Ceulemans (Belgium/Club Brugge) - 9
7 Waldemar Victorino (Uruguay/Nacional) - 7
8 Kevin Keegan (England/Hamburg) - 4
9 Toninho Cerezo (Brazil/Atletico Mineiro), Kenny Dalglish (Scotland/Liverpool), John Robertson (Scotland/Nottingham Forest) - 3
12 Paul Breitner (W.Germany/Bayern Munich) - 2
13 Paulo Roberto Falcao (Brazil/Internacional/Roma) - 1
14 Manfred Kaltz (W.Germany/Hamburg) - 0.5

1981 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Zico (Brazil/Flamengo) - 163
2 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (W.Germany/Bayern Munich) - 116
3 Diego Maradona (Argentina/Argentinos Juniors/Boca Juniors) - 98
4 Michel Platini (France/St Etienne) - 42.5
5 Paul Breitner (W.Germany/Bayern Munich) - 41.5
6 Junior (Brazil/Flamengo) - 4
7 Paulo Roberto Falcao (Brazil/Roma), Bernd Schuster (W.Germany/Barcelona) - 2
9 Liam Brady (Republic of Ireland/Juventus), Leandro (Brazil/Flamengo), Graeme Souness (Scotland/Liverpool), John Wark (Scotland/Ipswich Town), Dino Zoff (Italy/Juventus) - 1

1982 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Zico (Brazil/Flamengo) - 160
2 Paulo Roberto Falcao (Brazil/Roma) - 92
3 Paolo Rossi (Italy/Juventus) - 61
4 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (W.Germany/Bayern Munich) - 42
5 Alain Giresse (France/Bordeaux) - 40
6 Gaetano Scirea (Italy/Juventus) - 30
7 Socrates (Brazil/Corinthians) - 15
8 Michel Platini (France/St Etienne/Juventus) - 10
9 Bruno Conti (Italy/Roma) - 8
10 Zbigniew Boniek (Poland/Widzew Lodz/Juventus) - 4
11 Paul Breitner (W.Germany/Bayern Munich), Diego Maradona (Argentina/Boca Juniors/Barcelona), Junior (Brazil/Flamengo) Quini (Spain/Barcelona) - 3
15 Fernando Morena (Uruguay/Penarol) - 2
16 Dino Zoff (Italy/Juventus) - 1

1983 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Michel Platini (France/Juventus) - 167
2 Paulo Roberto Falcao (Brazil/Roma) - 98
3 Zico (Brazil/Flamengo/Udinese) - 82
4 Kenny Dalglish (Scotland/Liverpool) - 49
5 Socrates (Brazil/Corinthians) - 43
6 Diego Maradona (Argentina/Barcelona) - 18
7 Felix Magath (W.Germany/Hamburg) - 8
8 Enzo Francescoli (Uruguay/River Plate) - 5
9 Renato Gaucho (Brazil/Gremio), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (W.Germany/Bayern Munich) - 2
11 Rinat Dasaev (Soviet Union/Spartak Moscow), Bryan Robson (England/Manchester United) - 1

1984 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Michel Platini (France/Juventus) - 186
2 Jean Tigana (France/Bordeaux) - 84
3 Ian Rush (Wales/Liverpool) - 76
4 Zico (Brazil/Udinese) - 41
5 Paulo Roberto Falcao (Brazil/Roma), Enzo Francescoli (Uruguay/River Plate) - 19
7 Preben Elkjaer (Denmark/Lokeren/Verona) - 18
8 Alain Giresse (France/Bordeaux) - 7
9 Romerito (Paraguay/Fluminense) - 6
10 Ricardo Bochini (Argentina/Independiente) - 4
11 Jorge Burruchaga (Argentina/Independiente), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (W.Germany/Bayern Munich/Inter Milan) - 3
13 Fernando Chalana (Portugal/Benfica/Bordeaux), Johan Cruyff (Netherlands/Feyenoord), Morten Olsen (Denmark/Anderlecht), Hugo Sanchez (Mexico/Atletico Madrid), Graeme Souness (Scotland/Liverpool/Sampdoria) - 2
18 Zbigniew Boniek (Poland/Juventus), Diego Maradona (Argentina/Barcelona/Napoli) - 1

1985 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Michel Platini (France/Juventus) - 178
2 Diego Maradona (Argentina/Napoli) - 121
3 Preben Elkjaer (Denmark/Verona) - 85
4 Bernd Schuster (W.Germany/Barcelona) - 43
5 Zbigniew Boniek (Poland/Juventus/Roma) - 14
6 Claudio Borghi (Argentina/Argentinos Juniors) - 10
7 Hans-Peter Briegel (W.Germany/Verona), Hugo Sanchez (Mexico/Atletico Madrid/Real Madrid) - 6
9 Enzo Francescoli (Uruguay/River Plate), Michael Laudrup (Denmark/Lazio/Juventus) - 3.5
11 Junior (Brazil/Torino), Romerito (Paraguay/Fluminense) - 2
13 Ian Rush (Wales/Liverpool), Rudi Voller (W.Germany/Werder Bremen) - 1

1986 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Diego Maradona (Argentina/Napoli) - 186
2 Gary Lineker (England/Everton/Barcelona) - 91
3 Igor Belanov (Soviet Union/Dynamo Kyiv) - 63
4 Careca (Brazil/Sao Paulo) - 35
5 Emilio Butragueno (Spain/Real Madrid) - 24
6 Michel Platini (France/Juventus) - 21
7 Michael Laudrup (Denmark/Juventus) - 11
8 Ruud Gullit (Netherlands/PSV Eindhoven) - 8
9 Antonio Alzamendi (Uruguay/Penarol/River Plate), Preben Elkjaer (Denmark/Verona) - 7
11 Manuel Amoros (France/Monaco), Jorge Burruchaga (Argentina/Nantes) - 5
13 Lothar Matthaus (W.Germany/Bayern Munich), Hugo Sanchez (Mexico/Real Madrid) - 4
15 Helmuth Duckadam (Romania/Steaua Bucharest), Marco van Basten (Netherlands/Ajax) - 2
17 Bebeto (Brazil/Flamengo), Enzo Francescoli (Uruguay/River Plate/Racing Club de Paris), Morten Olsen (Denmark/Anderlecht/Cologne) - 1

1987 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Diego Maradona (Argentina/Napoli) - 169
2 Ruud Gullit (Netherlands/PSV Eindhoven/AC Milan) - 118
3 Paulo Futre (Portugal/Porto/Atletico Madrid) - 65
4 Marco van Basten (Netherlands/Ajax/AC Milan) - 54
5 Hugo Sanchez (Mexico/Real Madrid) - 49
6 Emilio Butragueno (Spain/Real Madrid) - 9
7 Carlos Valderrama (Colombia/Deportivo Cali) - 6
8 Lothar Matthaus (W.Germany/Bayern Munich) - 3
9 Gary Lineker (England/Barcelona), Renato Gaucho (Brazil/Gremio/Flamengo) - 2
11 Michel (Spain/Real Madrid), Jean-Marie Pfaff (Belgium/Bayern Munich) - 1

1988 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Ruud Gullit (Netherland/AC Milan) - 141
2 Marco Van Basten (Netherlands/AC Milan) - 116
3 Diego Maradona (Argentina/Napoli) - 110
4 Ronald Koeman (Netherlands/PSV Eindhoven) - 60
5 Frank Rijkaard (Netherlands/Ajax/Real Zaragoza/AC Milan) - 17
6 John Barnes (England/Liverpool), Lothar Matthaus (W.Germany/Bayern Munich/Inter Milan), Hugo Sanchez (Mexico/Real Madrid) - 5
9 Franco Baresi (Italy/AC Milan) - 4
10 Ruben Paz (Uruguay/Racing Club de Avellenada) - 3
11 Hugo de Leon (Uruguay/Logrones/Nacional), Dragan Stojkovic (Yugoslavia/Red Star Belgrade) - 2
13 Giussepe Giannini (Italy/Roma), Glenn Hoddle (England/Monaco), Alexei Mikhailichenko (Soviet Union/Dynamo Kyiv), Hans van Breukelen (Netherlands/PSV Eindhoven) - 1

1989 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Marco van Basten (Netherlands/AC Milan) - 178
2 Diego Maradona (Argentina/Napoli) - 93
3 Franco Baresi (Italy/AC Milan) - 79.5
4 Lothar Matthaus (W.Germany/Inter Milan) - 46
5 Bebeto (Brazil/Flamengo/Vasco da Gama) - 30
6 Frank Rijkaard (Netherlands/AC Milan) - 25
7 Romario (Brazil/PSV Eindhoven) - 7
8 Careca (Brazil/Napoli), Ruud Gullit (Netherlands/AC Milan) - 5
10 Dragan Stojkovic (Yugoslavia/Red Star Belgrade) - 3
11 Hugo Sanchez (Mexico/Real Madrid) - 2
12 Baltazar (Brazil/Atletico Madrid), Andreas Brehme (W.Germany/Inter Milan), Gheorghe Hagi (Romania/Steaua Bucharest) - 1
15 Jean-Pierre Papin (France/Marseille) - 0.5

 

1990s with adjustments for 1995 and 1996 after Gutigut's revisions and also the 1996 adjustments of Titanlux factored in:

1990 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Lothar Matthaus (W.Germany/Inter Milan) - 188
2 Diego Maradona (Argentina/Napoli) - 115
3 Franco Baresi (Italy/AC Milan) - 79
4 Andreas Brehme (W.Germany/Inter Milan) - 49
5 Salvatore Schillaci (Italy/Juventus) - 21
6 Marco van Basten (Netherlands/AC Milan) - 18
7 Paul Gascoigne (England/Tottenham Hotspur) - 14
8 Roberto Baggio (Italy/Fiorentina/Juventus) - 6
10 Sergio Goycochea (Argentina/Millonarios/Racing Club de Avellanados), Frank Rijkaard (Netherlands/AC Milan), Hugo Sanchez (Mexico/Real Madrid), Dragan Stojkovic (Yugoslavia/Red Star Belgrade/Marseille) - 3
13 Jean-Pierre Papin (France/Marseille) - 2
14 John Barnes (England/Liverpool), Bebeto (Brazil/Vasco da Gama), Guido Buchwald (W.Germany/Stuttgart), Jurgen Kohler (W.Germany/Bayern Munich), Enzo Scifo (Belgium/Auxerre) - 1

1991 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Jean-Pierre Papin (France/Marseille) - 152
2 Lothar Matthaus (Germany/Inter Milan) - 129
3 Dejan Savicevic (Yugoslavia/Red Star Belgrade) - 104
4 Darko Pancev (Yugoslavia/Red Star Belgrade) - 35.5
5 Robert Prosinecki (Yugoslavia/Red Star Belgrade) - 35
6 Roberto Mancini (Italy/Sampdoria) - 12
7 Gianluca Vialli (Italy/Sampdoria) - 11.5
8 Chris Waddle (England/Marseille) - 7.5
9 Frank Rijkaard (Netherlands/AC Milan) - 5
10 Rai (Brazil/Sao Paulo) - 4
11 Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina/Boca Juniors/Fiorentina) - 3
12 Claudio Caniggia (Argentina/Atalanta), Hugo Sanchez (Mexico/Real Madrid) - 2
14 Michael Laudrup (Denmark/Barcelona) - 1.5
15 Stefan Effenberg (Germany/Bayern Munich), Romario (Brazil/PSV Eindhoven), Oscar Ruggeri (Argentina/Velez Sarsfield), Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria/Barcelona) - 1

1992 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Marco van Basten (Netherlands/AC Milan) - 146
2 Michael Laudrup (Denmark/Barcelona) - 92
3 Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria/Barcelona) - 89
4 Dennis Bergkamp (Netherlands/Ajax) - 74
5 Peter Schmeichel (Denmark/Manchester United) - 30
6 Rai (Brazil/Sao Paulo) - 22
7 Ronald Koeman (Netherlands/Barcelona) - 15.5
8 Thomas Hassler (Germany/Roma), Frank Rijkaard (Netherlands/AC Milan) - 4.5
10 Paolo Maldini (Italy/AC Milan) - 4
11 Bebeto (Brazil/Vasco da Gama/Deportivo La Coruna) - 3
12 Franco Baresi (Italy/AC Milan), Ruud Gullit (Netherlands/AC Milan), Junior (Brazil/Flamengo), Brian Laudrup (Denmark/Bayern Munich/Fiorentina) - 1
16 Enzo Scifo (Belgium/Torino) - 0.5

1993 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Roberto Baggio (Italy/Juventus) - 189
2 Dennis Bergkamp (Netherlands/Ajax/Inter Milan) - 74
3 Romario (Brazil/PSV Eindhoven/Barcelona) - 62
4 Michael Laudrup (Denmark/Barcelona) - 56
5 Eric Cantona (France/Manchester United) - 35
6 Paolo Maldini (Italy/AC Milan) - 17
7 Alen Boksic (Croatia/Marseille/Lazio) - 15
8 Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria/Barcelona) - 11
9 Franco Baresi (Italy/AC Milan) - 10
10 Carlos Valderrama (Colombia/Independiente Medellin/Atletico Junior) - 5
11 Abedi Pele (Ghana/Marseille/Lyon), Bebeto (Brazil/Deportivo La Coruna), Cafu (Brazil/Sao Paulo) - 4
14 Rai (Brazil/Sao Paulo/Paris St Germain), Giussepe Signori (Italy/Lazio) - 2
16 Basile Boli (France/Marseille) - 1

1994 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Romario (Brazil/Barcelona) - 180
2 Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria/Barcelona) - 108
3 Roberto Baggio (Italy/Juventus) - 87
4 Paolo Maldini (Italy/AC Milan) - 66.5
5 Gheorghe Hagi (Romania/Brescia/Barcelona) - 21.5
6 Franco Baresi (Italy/AC Milan) - 6.5
7 Michael Laudrup (Denmark/Barcelona/Real Madrid) - 5
8 Giuseppe Signori (Italy/Lazio) - 4
9 Eric Cantona (France/Manchester United) - 3
10 Ruud Gullit (Netherlands/Sampdoria/AC Milan) - 2.5
11 Jose Luis Chilavert (Paraguay/Velez Sarsfield), Jurgen Klinsmann (Germany/Monaco/Tottenham Hotspur) - 2
13 Bebeto (Brazil/Deportivo La Coruna), Tomas Brolin (Sweden/Parma) - 1.5

1995 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Jari Litmanen (Finland/Ajax) - 145
2 George Weah (Liberia/Paris St Germain/AC Milan) - 103
3 Jurgen Klinsmann (Germany/Tottenham Hotspur/Bayern Munich) - 65
4 Michael Laudrup (Denmark/Real Madrid) - 47.5
5 Paolo Maldini (Italy/AC Milan) - 25
6 Enzo Francescoli (Uruguay/River Plate) - 19
7 Gianfranco Zola (Italy/Parma) - 18
8 Alan Shearer (England/Blackburn Rovers) - 12.5
9 Frank Rijkaard (Netherlands/Ajax), Ronaldo (Brazil/PSV Eindhoven), Matthias Sammer (Germany/Borussia Dortmund) - 10
12 Alessandro Del Piero (Italy/Juventus) - 8
13 Patrick Kluivert (Netherlands/Ajax) - 5
14 Dejan Savicevic (Yugoslavia/AC Milan) - 4
15 Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina/Fiorentina), Gianluca Vialli (Italy/Juventus) - 3
17 Marc Overmars (Netherlands/Ajax) - 2
18 Ivan Zamorano (Chile/Real Madrid) - 1

1996 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Matthias Sammer (Germany/Borussia Dortmund) - 129
2 Ronaldo (Brazil/PSV Eindhoven/Barcelona) - 104
3 Alan Shearer (England/Blackburn Rovers/Newcastle United) - 65.5
4 George Weah (Liberia/AC Milan) - 60.5
5 Alessandro Del Piero (Italy/Juventus) - 37
6 Jurgen Klinsmann (Germany/Bayern Munich), Jari Litmanen (Finland/Ajax) - 24
8 Eric Cantona (France/Manchester United) - 15
9 Jose Luis Chilavert (Paraguay/Velez Sarsfield), Davor Suker (Croatia/Sevilla/Real Madrid) - 4
11 Enzo Francescoli (Uruguay/River Plate), Paolo Maldini (Italy/AC Milan), Predrag Mijatovic (Yugoslavia/Valencia/Real Madrid) - 2
14 Karel Poborsky (Czech Republic/Slavia Prague/Manchester United), Peter Schmeichel (Denmark/Manchester United) - 1

1997 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Ronaldo (Brazil/Barcelona/Inter Milan) - 191
2 Zinedine Zidane (France/Juventus) - 101
3 Roberto Carlos (Brazil/Real Madrid) - 58
4 Dennis Bergkamp (Netherlands/Arsenal) - 52
5 Predrag Mijatovic (Yugoslavia/Real Madrid) - 28
6 Romario (Brazil/Valencia/Flamengo) - 20
7 Andreas Moller (Germany/Borussia Dortmund) - 7
8 Peter Schmeichel (Denmark/Manchester United) - 6
9 Marcelo Salas (Chile/River Plate) - 5
10 Alessandro Del Piero (Italy/Juventus), Raul (Spain/Real Madrid) - 4
12 Angelo Peruzzi (Italy/Juventus), Alan Shearer (England/Newcastle United), Davor Suker (Croatia/Real Madrid), Gianfranco Zola (Italy/Parma/Chelsea) - 2
16 Edmundo (Brazil/Vasco da Gama), Luis Figo (Portugal/Barcelona), Jurgen Kohler (Germany/Borussia Dortmund), Rivaldo (Brazil/Deportivo La Coruna/Barcelona), Lilian Thuram (France/Parma) - 1

1998 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Zinedine Zidane (France/Juventus) - 170
2 Ronaldo (Brazil/Inter Milan) - 150
3 Dennis Bergkamp (Netherlands/Arsenal) - 54
4 Davor Suker (Croatia/Real Madrid) - 46
5 Alessandro Del Piero (Italy/Juventus) - 34
6 Rivaldo (Brazil/Barcelona) - 32
7 Lilian Thuram (France/Parma) - 10
8 Michael Owen (England/Liverpool) - 6
9 Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina/Fiorentina) - 5
10 Fabien Barthez (France/Monaco), Predrag Mijatovic (Yugoslavia/Real Madrid) - 3
12 Roberto Carlos (Brazil/Real Madrid) - 2
13 Edgar Davids (Netherlands/AC Milan/Juventus) - 1

1999 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer# panel consensus
1 Rivaldo (Brazil/Barcelona) - 184
2 David Beckham (England/Manchester United) - 124
3 Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine/Dynamo Kiev/AC Milan) - 70
4 Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina/Fiorentina) - 44
5 Luis Figo (Portugal/Barcelona) - 39
6 Roy Keane (Republic of Ireland/Manchester United) - 24
7 Raul (Spain/Real Madrid) - 6
8 Ryan Giggs (Wales/Manchester United) - 5
9 Alex de Souza (Brazil/Palmeiras) - 3
10 Lothar Matthaus (Germany/Bayern Munich), Dwight Yorke (Trinidad&Tobago/Aston Vlla/Manchester United), Zinedine Zidane (France/Juventus) - 2
13 Ronaldo (Brazil/Inter Milan), Christian Vieri (Italy/Lazio) - 1

No positional changes to the consensus order shown in my previous update (after confirmation of Gutigut's 1998 HM and taking account of Titanlux's 1995 changes).

 

2000s with Gutigut's 2003 1st place change taken account of (which just narrows the gap between consensus 1st and 2nd by four points, but doesn't change the order).

2000 Ballon d'Or Revisited panel consensus
1 Luis Figo (Portugal/Barcelona/Real Madrid) - 199
2 Zinedine Zidane (France/Juventus) - 195
3 Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine/AC Milan) - 66
4 Rivaldo (Brazil/Barcelona) - 42
5 Francesco Totti (Italy/Roma) - 38
6 Romario (Brazil/Flamengo/Vasco da Gama) - 28
7 Raul (Spain/Real Madrid) - 19
8 Thierry Henry (France/Arsenal) - 15
9 Alessandro Nesta (Italy/Lazio) - 9
10 Fernando Redondo (Argentina/Real Madrid/AC Milan), Juan Roman Riquelme (Argentina/Boca Juniors) - 7
12 Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina/Fiorentina/Roma) - 6
13 Gaizka Mendieta (Spain/Valencia) - 4
14 Juan Sebastian Veron (Argentina/Lazio) - 3
15 Fabien Barthez (France/Monaco/Manchester United), Djalminha (Brazil/Deportivo La Coruna), Mario Jardel (Brazil/Porto/Gatatasaray) - 1

2001 Ballon d'Or Revisited panel consensus
1 Raul (Spain/Real Madrid) - 150
2 Luis Figo (Portugal/Real Madrid) - 148
3 Michael Owen (England/Liverpool) - 89
4 Oliver Kahn (Germany/Bayern Munich) - 80
5 Zinedine Zidane (France/Juventus/Real Madrid) - 57
6 Francesco Totti (Roma/Italy) - 47
7 David Beckham (England/Manchester United) - 28
8 Rivaldo (Brazil/Barcelona) - 13
9 Juan Roman Riquelme (Argentina/Boca Juniors) - 11
10 Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina/Roma), Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine/AC Milan) - 4
12 Thierry Henry (France/Arsenal), Roberto Carlos (Brazil/Real Madrid) - 2
14 Gaizka Mendieta (Spain/Valencia/Lazio), Robert Pires (France/Arsenal), Romario (Brazil/Vasco da Gama) - 1

2002 Ballon d'Or Revisited panel consensus
1 Ronaldo (Brazil/Inter Milan/Real Madrid) - 141
2 Zinedine Zidane (France/Real Madrid) - 138
3 Michael Ballack (Germany/Bayer Leverkusen/Bayern Munich) - 115
4 Roberto Carlos (Brazil/Real Madrid) - 112
5 Oliver Kahn (Germany/Bayern Munich) - 88
6 Rivaldo (Brazil/Barcelona/AC Milan) - 17
7 Thierry Henry (France/Arsenal) - 10
8 Ruud van Nistelrooy (Netherlands/Manchester United) - 5
9 Raul (Spain/Real Madrid), Ronaldinho (Brazil/Paris St Germain) - 4
11 Robert Pires (France/Arsenal) - 2
12 Cafu (Brazil/Roma) - 1

2003 Ballon d'Or Revisited panel consensus
1 Thierry Henry (France/Arsenal) - 196
2 Pavel Nedved (Czech Republic/Juventus) - 178
3 Zinedine Zidane (France/Real Madrid) - 93
4 Paolo Maldini (Italy/AC Milan) - 60
5 Ruud van Nistelrooy (Netherlands/Manchester United) - 51
6 Ronaldo (Brazil/Real Madrid) - 28
7 Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine/AC Milan) - 14
8 Gianluigi Buffon (Italy/Juventus), Raul (Spain/Real Madrid) - 6
10 Carlos Tevez (Argentina) - 3
11 Alex de Souza (Brazil/Cruzeiro) - 2
12 Deco (Portugal/Porto), Ronaldinho (Brazil/Paris St Germain/Barcelona), Patrick Vieira (France/Arsenal) - 1

2004 Ballon d'Or Revisited panel consensus
1 Thierry Henry (France/Arsenal) - 187
2 Ronaldinho (Brazil/Barcelona) - 156
3 Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine/AC Milan) - 130
4 Deco (Portugal/Porto/Barcelona) - 114
5 Pavel Nedved (Czech Republic/Juventus) - 16
6 Adriano (Brazil/Parma/Inter Milan) - 10
7 Kaka (Brazil/AC Milan) - 7
8 Patrick Vieira (France/Arsenal) - 6
9 Ricardo Carvalho (Portugal/Porto/Chelsea), Theo Zagarakis (Greece/AEK Athens/Bologna) - 4
11 Carlos Tevez (Argentina/Boca Juniors) - 3
12 Angelos Charisteas (Greece/Werder Bremen), Zinedine Zidane (France/Real Madrid) - 1

2005 Ballon d'Or Revisited panel consensus
1 Ronaldinho (Brazil/Barcelona) - 232
2 Frank Lampard (England/Chelsea) - 152
3 Steven Gerrard (England/Liverpool) - 107
4 Thierry Henry (France/Arsenal) - 60
5 Adriano (Brazil/Inter Milan) - 28
6 Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine/AC Milan) - 14
7 Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon/Barcelona) - 13
8 Kaka (Brazil/AC Milan) - 11
9 Paolo Maldini (Italy/AC Milan) - 6
10 John Terry (England/Chelsea) - 5
11 Mark van Bommel (Netherlands/PSV Eindhoven/Barcelona), Juan Roman Riquelme (Argentina/Villarreal) - 4
13 Xavi (Spain/Barcelona) - 3
14 Petr Cech (Czech Republic/Chelsea) - 1

2006 Ballon d'Or Revisited panel consensus
1 Ronaldinho (Brazil/Barcelona) - 164
2 Fabio Cannavaro (Italy/Juventus/Real Madrid) - 156
3 Thierry Henry (France/Arsenal) - 105
4 Zinedine Zidane (France/Real Madrid) - 71
5 Gianluigi Buffon (Italy/Juventus) - 62
6 Andrea Pirlo (Italy/AC Milan) - 32
7 Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon/Barcelona) - 25
8 Miroslav Klose (Germany/Werder Bremen) - 9
9 Kaka (Brazil/AC Milan) - 8
10 Deco (Portugal/Barcelona), Steven Gerrard (England/Liverpool), Frank Lampard (England/Chelsea) - 2
13 Juan Roman Riquelme (Argentina/Villarreal) - 1

2007 Ballon d'Or Revisited panel consensus
1 Kaka (Brazil/AC Milan) - 260
2 Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Manchester United) - 188
3 Lionel Messi (Argentina/Barcelona) - 101
4 Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast/Chelsea) - 52
5 Francesco Totti (Italy/Roma) - 35
6 Andrea Pirlo (Italy/AC Milan) - 28
7 Ronaldinho (Brazil/Barcelona) - 15
8 Ruud van Nistelrooy (Netherlands/Real Madrid) - 4
9 Steven Gerrard (England/Liverpool), Clarence Seedorf (Netherlands/AC Milan) - 3
11 Filippo Inzaghi (Italy/AC Milan), Adrian Mutu (Romania/Fiorentina), Juan Roman Riquelme (Argentina/Villarreal/Boca Juniors) - 2
14 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden/Inter Milan), Paul Scholes (England/Manchester United) - 1

2008 Ballon d'Or Revisited panel consensus
1 Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Manchester United) - 270
2 Lionel Messi (Argentina/Barcelona) - 144
3 Fernando Torres (Spain/Liverpool) - 127
4 Xavi (Spain/Barcelona) - 86
5 Iker Casillas (Spain/Real Madrid) - 33
6 Frank Lampard (England/Chelsea) - 9
7 Franck Ribery (France/Bayern Munich) - 8
8 Andrey Arshavin (Russia/Zenit St Petersburg) - 7
9 David Villa (Spain/Valencia) - 6
10 Wayne Rooney (England/Manchester United) - 2
13 Cesc Fabregas (Spain/Arsenal), Steven Gerrard (England/Liverpool), Kaka (Brazil/AC Milan), Juan Roman Riquelme (Argentina/Boca Juniors), Marcos Senna (Spain/Villarreal), Luca Toni (Italy/Bayern Munich) - 1

2009 Ballon d'Or Revisited panel consensus
1 Lionel Messi (Argentina/Barcelona) - 262
2 Xavi (Spain/Barcelona) - 165
3 Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Manchester United/Real Madrid) - 118
4 Andres Iniesta (Spain/Barcelona) - 77
5 Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon/Barcelona/Inter Milan) - 45
6 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden/Inter Milan/Barcelona), Kaka (Brazil/AC Milan/Real Madrid), Frank Lampard (England/Chelsea) - 6
9 Steven Gerrard (England/Liverpool) - 5
10 Dani Alves (Brazil/Barcelona), Carles Puyol (Spain/Barcelona) - 2
12 Xabi Alonso (Spain/Liverpool/Real Madrid), Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast/Chelsea), Luis Suarez (Uruguay/Ajax) - 1

 

1920s, referring to Gutigut's latest post (and comparing to his previous points allocated):

1920 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Gyorgy Orth (Hungary/MTK Budapest) - 46
2 Angel Romano (Uruguay/Nacional) - 32
3 Karel Pesek (Czechoslovakia/Sparta Prague) - 21
4 Bob Kelly (England/Burnley), Fred Morris (England/West Bromwich Albion) - 18
6 Hector Scarone (Uruguay/Nacional) - 15
7 Jose Piendibene (Uruguay/Penarol) - 11
8 Arthur Friedenreich (Brazil/Paulistano) - 7
9 Billy Meredith (Wales/Manchester United) - 6
10 Ricardo Zamora (Spain/Barcelona) - 3
11 Luis Van Hege (Belgium/R.U Saint-Gilloise) - 2
12 Jesse Pennington (England/West Bromwich Albion), Josep Samitier (Spain/Barcelona) - 1

(Morris now has a place in the top 5, in joint 4th; previously Piendebene had been sitting in 5th place)

1921 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Gyorgy Orth (Hungary/MTK Budapest) - 53
2 Karel Pesek (Czechoslovakia/Sparta Prague) - 39
3 Alan Morton (Scotland/Rangers) - 36
4 Bob Kelly (England/Burnley) - 15
5 Arthur Friedenreich (Brazil/Paulistano) - 14
6 Angel Romano (Uruguay/Nacional) - 10
7 Jose Piendibene (Uruguay/Penarol) - 9
8 Josef Uridil (Austria/Rapid Vienna), Ricardo Zamora (Spain/Barcelona) - 7
10 Jozsef Braun (Hungary/MTK Budapest), Antonin Janda (Czechoslovakia/Sparta Prague), Julio Libonatti (Argentina/Newell's Old Boys), Billy Walker (England/Aston Villa) - 2

(Pesek has gone into 2nd ahead of Morton, and Kelly has gone into 4th ahead of Friedenreich)

1922 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Gyorgy Orth (Hungary/MTK Budapest) - 47
2 Manuel Seoane (Argentina/Independiente) - 43
3 Paulino Alcantara (Spain*/Barcelona) - 36
4 Karel Pesek (Czechoslovakia/Sparta Prague) - 30
5 Alan Morton (Scotland/Rangers) - 13
6 Andy Wilson (Scotland/Middlesbrough) - 12
7 Amilcar Barbuy (Brazil/Corinthians) - 4
8 Charlie Buchan (England/Sunderland), Angel Romano (Uruguay/Nacional) - 3
10 Patsy Gallacher (Ireland/Celtic), Antonin Janda (Czechoslovakia/Sparta Prague), Julio Libonatti (Argentina/Newell's Old Boys), Neco (Brazil/Corinthians) - 1

(Orth now in 1st alone ahead of Seoane)

1923 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Alan Morton (Scotland/Rangers) - 55
2 Charles Buchan (England/Sunderland) - 38
3 Hector Scarone (Uruguay/Nacional) - 37
4 Karel Pesek (Czechoslovakia/Sparta Prague) - 34
5 Gyorgy Orth (Hungary/MTK Budapest) - 12
6 Jose Leandro Andrade (Uruguay/Bella Vista),Domingo Tarasconi (Argentina/Boca Juniors) - 6
8 Jose Nasazzi (Uruguay/Bella Vista) - 4
9 Jozsef Braun (Hungary/MTK Budapest), Harry Chambers (England/Liverpool) - 2
11 Andy Cunningham (Scotland/Rangers) Manuel Seoane (Argentina/Independiente/El Porvinir), Billy Walker (England/Aston Villa), Ricardo Zamora (Spain/Espanyol) - 1

(Buchan into 2nd ahead of Scarone; Tarasconi moved up to joint 6th)

1924 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Jose Leandro Andrade (Uruguay/Bella Vista/Nacional) - 72
2 Pedro Petrone (Uruguay/Charley FC/Nacional) - 45
3 Hector Scarone (Uruguay/Nacional) - 43
4 Max Abegglen (Switzerland/Grasshoppers Zurich) - 16
5 Jose Nasazzi (Uruguay/Bella Vista) - 8
6 Sven Rydell (Sweden/Holmens IS/Orgryte) - 6
7 Billy Walker (England/Aston Villa) - 5
8 Alan Morton (Scotland/Rangers) - 3
9 Gyorgy Orth (Hungary/MTK Budapest), Angel Romano (Uruguay/Nacional) - 1

(Nasazzi switches places and points totals with Rydell and goes into 5th, as the new HM/4th place vote of Gutigut)

1925 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Hector Scarone (Uruguay/Nacional) - 53
2 Alan Morton (Scotland/Rangers) - 42
3 Josep Samitier (Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona) - 35
4 Hughie Gallacher (Scotland/Airdrie/Newcastle United) - 30
5 Manuel Seoane (Argentina/El Porvenir/Boca Juniors) - 12
6 Gyorgy Orth (Hungary/MTK Budapest) - 7
7 Jose Leandro Andrade (Uruguay/Nacional), Arthur Friedenreich (Brazil/Paulistano), Ricardo Zamora (Spain/Espanyol) - 4
10 Domingo Tarasconi (Argentina/Boca Juniors) - 3
11 Alex Jackson (Scotland/Aberdeen/Huddersfield Town), David Meiklejohn (Scotland/Rangers), Archie Stark (USA/Bethlehem Steel) - 1

1926 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Alex Jackson (Scotland/Huddersfield Town) - 60
2 Jose Leandro Andrade (Uruguay/Nacional) - 36
3 Hector Scarone (Uruguay/Nacional/Barcelona) - 23
4 Manuel Seoane (Argentina/Independiente) - 18
5 Ricardo Zamora (Spain/Espanyol) - 14
6 Domingo Tarasconi (Argentina/Boca Juniors) - 11
7 Hughie Gallacher (Scotland/Airdrie/Newcastle United), Ferenc Hirzer (Hungary/Juventus), Karel Pesek (Czechoslovakia/Sparta Prague) - 4
10 Arthur Friedenreich (Brazil/Paulistano) - 3
11 Josep Samitier (Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona) - 2
12 Jimmy McGrory (Scotland/Celtic), Jimmy McMullen (Scotland/Partick Thistle), Jose Nasazzi (Uruguay/Bella Vista) - 1

(Hirzer goes back into a tie for 7th after losing the HM/4th place vote points that Gutigut had previously given him)

1927 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Karel Pesek (Czechoslovakia/Sparta Prague) - 59
2 Hughie Gallacher (Scotland/Newcastle United) - 50
3 Dixie Dean (England/Everton) - 37
4 Jimmy McGrory (Scotland/Celtic) - 12
5 Luis Monti (Argentina/San Lorenzo) - 9
6 Jose Leandro Andrade (Uruguay/Nacional) - 8
7 Manuel Seoane (Argentina/Independiente), Fritz Tarp (Denmark/Boldklubben 93) - 2
9 Alan Morton (Scotland/Rangers), Antonin Puc (Czechoslovakia/Slavia Prague), Josef Silny (Czechoslovakia/Sparta Prague) - 1

(Silny goes down to a tie for 9th again - he should have been highlighted in the previous update when he climbed to 7th temporarily)

1928 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Dixie Dean (England/Everton) - 67
2 Alex Jackson (Scotland/Huddersfield Town) - 32
3 Adolfo Baloncieri (Italy/Torino) - 24
4 Raimundo Orsi (Argentina/Independiente/Juventus) - 19
5 Jozsef Takacs (Hungary/Ferencvaros) - 18
6 Alan Morton (Scotland/Rangers) - 7
7 Hughie Gallacher (Scotland/Newcastle United) - 6
8 Anton Schall (Austria/Admira Vienna) - 5
9 Hector Scarone (Uruguay/Nacional) - 3
10 Raymond Braine (Belgium/Beerschot) - 1

(Scarone drops down into 9th below Schall)

1929 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Alan Morton (Scotland/Rangers) - 44
2 Alex Jackson (Scotland/Huddersfield Town) - 32
3 Manuel Ferreira (Argentina/Estudiantes) - 31
4 Ricardo Zamora (Spain/Espanyol) - 24
5 Hughie Gallacher (Scotland/Newcastle United) - 21
6 Istvan Avar (Hungary/Ujpest) - 18
7 Antonin Puc (Czechoslovakia/Slavia Prague) - 5
8 Jimmy McMullan (Scotland/Manchester City) - 4
9 Frantisek Planicka (Czechoslovakia/Slavia Prague) - 2
10 Jozsef Takacs (Hungary/Ferencvaros) - 1

I'll get the 1930s and 1940s up to date tomorrow sometime.

 

Sorry, I said this yesterday, but make it tomorrow instead - I was having trouble understanding the chronology of points changes for 1930 already and still don't understand it properly yet (especially regarding Avar and Smistik). Anyway, hopefully tomorrow I can make sense of it (and then understand the changes in the vote of Gutigut too - like I said, understandably his website has been updated re: his newest calls, so there isn't a record of the original ones - if @IceBlood34 or @Gutigut do know what they were for the 1930s, before the adjustments, of course I'd appreciate the confirmation and it might help me speed up my posting tomorrow)

 

Just in case I didn't write that clearly enough: @Gutigut if you still have a record of what your choices had previously been (when @IceBlood34 spotted your website and we incorporated your votes on here) for the 1930s I'd definitely appreciate you confirming what they were for me. Thanks.

Of course if you didn't write it down and now forgot exactly what they had been then don't worry about it - I would try to make sense of the voting chronology like I was trying (and failing at that point) to do yesterday. It is much easier if I can just make adjustments based on your confirmation if possible though (to be fair I possibly should have written your original votes on a spreadsheet, but I only did that for the votes we received at the start of this endeavour and some others that we used that had already been posted on other threads, and for more recent ones I'd just been adding points to the overall tallies - given you didn't originally post your choices on the forum I guess it would have been sensible for me or someone to make a record of them though, in hindsight).

 

I didnt have it as a list... And I dont remember the places, sorry.

 

Ok, no worries. Thanks for the confirmation.

 

I'm going to skip forwards to the 1940s for today, to get the standings updated for Gutigut's adjustments. I'll come back to the 1930s over the weekend (I think maybe I had made a correction between one update and the next and that is what was confusing me, or something like that).

1940 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Leonidas (Brazil/Flamengo) - 80
2 Josef Bican (Czechoslovakia*/Slavia Prague) - 57
3 Antonio Sastre (Argentina/Independiente) - 21
4 Franz Binder (Germany*/Rapid Vienna) - 19
5 Arsenio Erico (Paraguay/Independiente) - 10
6 Gyorgy Sarosi (Hungary/Ferencvaros) - 7
7 Iuliu Baratky (Romania/Rapid Bucharest), Jose Manuel Moreno (Argentina/River Plate) - 6
9 Delfin Benitez Caceres (Paraguay/Racing Club de Avellaneda) - 4
10 Emilio Baldonedo (Argentina/Huracan), Isidro Langara (Spain/San Lorenzo) - 3
12 Atilio Garcia (Uruguay/Nacional), Ernst Kuzorra (Germany/Schalke) - 2
14 Romeu (Brazil/Fluminense), Fritz Szepan (Germany/Schalke) - 1

1941 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Jose Manuel Moreno (Argentina/River Plate) - 88
2 Antonio Sastre (Argentina/Independiente) - 29
3 Adolfo Pedernera (Argentina/River Plate) - 25
4 Atilio Garcia (Uruguay/Nacional) - 24
5 Franz Binder (Germany*/Rapid Vienna) - 18
6 Gyorgy Sarosi (Hungary/Ferencvaros) - 12
7 Josef Bican (Czechoslovakia*/Slavia Prague) - 8
8 Isidro Langara (Spain/San Lorenzo) - 7
9 Roberto Porta (Uruguay/Nacional) - 4
10 Obdulio Varela (Uruguay/Penarol) - 3
11 Tommy Lawton (England/Everton), Leonidas (Brazil/Flamengo), Teleco (Brazil/Corinthians) - 1

1942 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Jose Manuel Moreno (Argentina/River Plate) - 86
2 Adolfo Pedernera (Argentina/River Plate) - 53
3 Obdulio Varela (Uruguay/Montevideo Wanderers) - 22
4 Josef Bican (Czechoslovakia*/Slavia Prague) - 19
5 Tommy Lawton (England/Everton) - 9
6 Roberto Porta (Uruguay/Nacional) - 8
7 Anibal Ciocca (Uruguay/Nacional) - 7
8 Antonio Sastre (Argentina/Independiente/Sao Paulo), Fritz Walter (Germany/Kaiserslautern) - 4
10 Atilio Garcia (Uruguay/Nacional) - 3
11 Stanley Matthews (England/Stoke City), Zizinho (Brazil/Flamengo) - 2
13 Franz Binder (Rapid Vienna), Heleno de Freitas (Brazil/Botafogo), Rinaldo Martino (Argentina/San Lorenzo) - 1

1943 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Zizinho (Brazil/Flamengo) - 51
2 Severino Varela (Uruguay/Boca Juniors) - 35
3 Stanley Matthews (England/Stoke City) - 29
4 Antonio Sastre (Argentina/Sao Paulo) - 25
5 Adolfo Pedernera (Argentina/River Plate) - 23
6 Jose Manuel Moreno (Argentina/River Plate) - 15
7 Leonidas (Brazil/Sao Paulo) - 10
8 Josef Bican (Czechoslovakia*/Slavia Prague), Atilio Garcia (Uruguay/Nacional) - 6
10 Valentino Mazzola (Italy/Torino), Silvio Piola (Italy/Lazio) - 3
12 Raich Carter (England/Sunderland), Domingos da Guia (Brazil/Flamengo), Jose Salomon (Argentina/Racing Club de Avellaneda) - 1

1944 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Zizinho (Brazil/Flamengo) - 55
2 Josef Bican (Czechoslovakia*/Slavia Prague) - 46
3 Tommy Lawton (England/Everton) - 38
4 Stanley Matthews (England/Stoke City) - 28
5 Carlos Sosa (Argentina/Boca Juniors) - 11
6 Angel Labruna (Argentina/River Plate), Severino Varela (Uruguay/Boca Juniors) - 6
8 Mundo (Spain/Valencia) - 4
9 Karl Decker (Austria/First Vienna), Jair da Rosa Pinto (Brazil/Vasco da Gama) - 3
11 Mario Boye (Argentina/Boca Juniors), Obdulio Varela (Uruguay/Penarol) - 2
13 Leonidas (Brazil/Sao Paulo), Luisinho (Brazil/Sao Paulo), Antonio Sastre (Argentina/Sao Paulo) - 1

1945 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Rinaldo Martino (Argentina/San Lorenzo) - 48
2 Norberto Mendez (Argentina/Huracan) - 36
3 Tommy Lawton (England/Everton), Stanley Matthews (England/Stoke City) - 22.5
5 Adolfo Pedernera (Argentina/River Plate) - 21
6 Angel Labruna (Argentina/River Plate) - 18
7 Ademir de Menezes (Brazil/Vasco da Gama) - 16
8 Antonio Sastre (Argentina/Sao Paulo) - 9
9 Jose Manuel Moreno (Argentina/Real Club Espana) - 4
10 Helenio de Freitas (Brazil/Botafogo), Zizinho (Brazil/Flamengo) - 3
12 Felix Loustau (Argentina/River Plate), Obdulio Varela (Uruguay/Penarol) - 2

1946 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Adolfo Pedernera (Argentina/River Plate) - 64
2 Rene Pontoni (Argentina/San Lorenzo) - 36
3 Rinaldo Martino (Argentina/San Lorenzo) - 29
4 Ferenc Deak (Hungary/Szentlorinci) - 23
5 Angel Labruna (Argentina/River Plate), Stanley Matthews (England/Stoke City) - 10.5
6 Norberto Mendez (Argentina/Huracan - 8
7 Valentino Mazzola (Italy/Torino) - 13
9 Raich Carter (England/Sunderland/Derby County) - 6
10 Zizinho (Brazil/Flamengo), Gyula Zsengeller (Hungary/Ujpest) - 4
12 Tommy Lawton (England/Chelsea) - 3
13 Gunnar Gren (Sweden/Gothenburg) - 2

(Martino into 3rd on his won, with Deak dropping to 4th from joint 3rd; Mazzola dropping down to 7th, leaving Labruna and Matthews in joint 5th)

1947 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Valentino Mazzola (Italy/Torino) - 74
2 Alfredo Di Stefano (Argentina/River Plate) - 50
3 Jose Manuel Moreno (Argentina/River Plate) - 40
4 Wilf Mannion (England/Middlesbrough) - 28
5 Tommy Lawton (England/Chelsea/Notts County) - 25
6 Stanley Matthews (England/Stoke City/Blackpool) - 17
7 Ferenc Deak (Hungary/Szentlorinci/Ferencvaros) - 11
8 Rene Pontoni (Argentina/San Lorenzo) - 7
9 Rinaldo Martino (Argentina/San Lorenzo) - 3
10 Felix Loustau (Argentina/River Plate) - 1

1948 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Stanley Matthews (England/Blackpool) - 77
2 Ferenc Puskas (Hungary/Kispest) - 59
3 Valentino Mazzola (Italy/Torino) - 50
4 Gunnar Nordahl (Sweden/Norrkoping) - 34
5 Gunnar Gren (Sweden/Gothenburg) - 14
6 Danilo Alvim (Brazil/Vasco da Gama), Ferenc Deak (Hungary/Ferencvaros) - 6
8 Alfredo Di Stefano (Argentina/River Plate/Millonarios) - 5
9 Tom Finney (England/Preston North End) - 4
10 Jose Manuel Moreno (Argentina/River Plate) - 1

1949 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Ademir de Menezes (Brazil/Vasco da Gama) - 65
2 Ferenc Deak (Hungary/Ferencvaros) - 56
3 Ferenc Puskas (Hungary/Kispest) - 40.5
4 Zizinho (Brazil/Flamengo) - 37.5
5 Valentino Mazzola (Italy/Torino) - 20
6 Gunnar Gren (Sweden/Gothenburg/AC Milan), Jair da Rosa Pinto (Brazil/Flamengo/Palmeiras) - 12
8 Ernst Ocwirk (Austria/Austria Vienna) - 7
9 Alfredo Di Stefano (Argentina/Millonarios), Juan Schiaffino (Uruguay/Penarol) - 2
11 Johnny Carey (Ireland/Manchester United), Oscar Miguez (Uruguay/Penarol) - 1

After I've sussed out the 1930s changes, I'll make a start on earlier decades (maybe next week if not at the weekend, and possibly doing the 1910s first)....

 

I think what probably happened is I used a version of the 1930s standings that was too old (a later one having replaced it) when I added on Gutigut's points for that decade.

You had found the correct one IceBlood I think, but then obviously I was re-doing things to make the points system 6-4-3-2 for his votes.

I'll double check over the weekend but that probably explains why I was having difficulty (so actually Gutigut's adjustments have caused me to correct that!).

So hopefully it will be easy enough to do the latest (correct) 1930s summary over the weekend, and then make a start with the 1910s where I remember there was some doubt about the points totals too, for different reasons.

 

I would question Ronaldo as high as three if looking at 95-96 season at PSV, he spent two thirds of the season injured, and there was no significant international competition.

All of his high positions in 1996 FIFA award and Ballon d'or are based of his ridiculously good start to 96-97 season, not end of 95-96 season at PSV. For context he was in ESM team of month once in the entire 95-96 season.

 

Correct and up-to-date (including all Gutigut's amendments) 1930s list:

1930 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Giussepe Meazza (Italy/Inter Milan) - 71
2 Jose Nasazzi (Uruguay/Bella Vista) - 46
3 Hughie Gallacher (Scotland/Newcastle United/Chelsea) - 33
4 Josef Smistik (Austria/Rapid Vienna) - 21
5 Istvan Avar (Hungary*/Ujpest) - 17
6 Luis Monti (Argentina/San Lorenzo/Juventus) - 13
7 Jose Leandro Andrade (Uruguay/Nacional) - 8
8 Richard Hofmann (Germany/Dresdner SC) - 7
9 Guillermo Stabile (Argentina/Huracan/Genoa) - 4
10 Roberto Cherro (Argentina/Boca Juniors), Alan Morton (Scotland/Rangers) - 3
12 Raimundo Orsi (Italy*/Juventus) - 1

1931 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Raimundo Orsi (Italy*/Juventus) - 76
2 Alex James (Scotland/Arsenal) - 54
3 Giussepe Meazza (Italy/Inter Milan) - 34
4 Fritz Gschweidl (Austria/First Vienna) - 25
5 Matthias Sindelar (Austria/Austria Vienna) - 24
6 Arthur Friedenreich (Brazil/Sao Paulo) - 6
7 Anton Schall (Austria/Admira Vienna) - 5
8 Josef Blum (Austria/First Vienna), Giovanni Ferrari (Italy/Juventus), Bob McPhail (Scotland/Rangers), Josef Smistik (Austria/Rapid Vienna), Tom Waring (England/Aston Villa) - 1

1932 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Matthias Sindelar (Austria/Austria Vienna) - 88
2 Raimundo Orsi (Italy*/Juventus) - 46
3 Anton Schall (Austria/Admira Vienna) - 34
4 Dixie Dean (England/Everton) - 19.5
5 Alex James (Scotland/Arsenal) - 16.5
6 Bernabe Ferreyra (Argentina/Velez Sarsfield/River Plate) - 13
7 Raymond Braine (Belgium/Sparta Prague) - 3
8 Giovanni Ferrari (Italy/Juventus), Angelo Schiavio (Italy/Bologna) - 2
10 Renato Cesarini (Italy/Juventus), Fritz Gschweidl (Austria/First Vienna), Gyorgy Sarosi (Hungary/Ferencvaros) - 1

1933 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Matthias Sindelar (Austria/Austria Vienna) - 90
2 Giussepe Meazza (Italy/Inter Milan) - 55
3 Raimundo Orsi (Italy*/Juventus) - 24
4 Cliff Bastin (England/Arsenal) - 21
5 Alex James (Scotland/Arsenal) - 13.5
6 Ricardo Zamora (Spain/Real Madrid) - 12
7 Luis Monti (Italy*/Juventus) - 7
8 Gyorgy Sarosi (Hungary/Ferencvaros) - 5.5
9 Eddie Hapgood (England/Arsenal), Francisco Varello (Argentina/Boca Juniors) - 1

1934 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Giussepe Meazza (Italy/Inter Milan) - 78
2 Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia/Sparta Prague) - 42
3 Matthias Sindelar (Austria/Austria Vienna) - 34
4 Luis Monti (Italy*/Juventus) - 30
5 Raimundo Orsi (Italy*/Juventus) - 17
6 Isidro Langara (Spain/Oviedo) - 7
7 Gyorgy Sarosi (Hungary/Ferencvaros) - 5
8 Eric Brook (England/Manchester City), Giovanni Ferrari (Italy/Juventus) - 4
10 Jacinto Quincoces (Spain/Real Madrid) - 3
11 Eraldo Monzeglio (Italy/Bologna), Frantisek Planicka (Czechoslovakia/Slavia Prague), Fritz Szepan (Germany/Schalke) - 1

1935 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Gyorgy Sarosi (Hungary/Ferencvaros) - 72
2 Raymond Braine (Belgium/Sparta Prague) - 49
3 Cliff Bastin (England/Arsenal) - 37
4 Matthias Sindelar (Austria/Austria Vienna) - 21
5 Ted Drake (England/Arsenal) - 12
6 Giussepe Meazza (Italy/Inter Milan) - 11
7 Alex James (Scotland/Arsenal) - 7
8 Eric Brook (England/Manchester City) - 5
9 Ernest Kuzorra (Germany/Schalke), Fritz Szepan (Germany/Schalke) - 3
11 Giovanni Ferrari (Italy/Juventus/Inter Milan), Enrique Guaita (Italy*/Roma), Antonio Sastre (Argentina/Independiente) - 2
14 Eddie Hapgood (England/Arsenal) - 1

1936 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Giussepe Meazza (Italy/Inter Milan) - 80
2 Matthias Sindelar (Austria/Austria Vienna) - 56
3 Gyorgy Sarosi (Hungary/Ferencvaros) - 45
4 Cliff Bastin (England/Arsenal) - 14
5 Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia/Sparta Prague) - 11
6 Raich Carter (England/Sunderland) - 7
7 Jimmy McGrory (Scotland/Celtic) - 6
8 Raymond Braine (Belgium/Sparta Prague/Beerschot) - 3
9 Isidro Langara (Spain/Oviedo), Frantisek Planicka (Czechoslovakia/Slavia Prague) - 2
11 Michele Andreolo (Italy/Bologna) - 1

1937 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Gyorgy Sarosi (Hungary/Ferencvaros) - 86
2 Silvio Piola (Italy/Lazio) - 45
3 Arsenio Erico (Paraguay/Independiente) - 36
4 Antonio Sastre (Argentina/Independiente) - 28
5 Jose Manuel Moreno (Argentina/River Plate) - 17
6 Fritz Szepan (Germany/Schalke) - 5
7 Tommy Walker (Scotland/Heart of Midlothian) - 4
8 Giussepe Meazza (Italy/Inter Milan), Matthias Sindelar (Austria/Austria Vienna) - 2
9 Michele Andreolo (Italy/Bologna), Carlos Peucelle (Argentina/River Plate) - 1

1938 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Gyorgy Sarosi (Hungary/Ferencvaros) - 79
2 Leonidas (Brazil/Flamengo) - 59
3 Arsenio Erico (Paraguay/Independiente), Giussepe Meazza (Italy/Inter Milan) - 28
5 Josef Bican (Czecholovakia*/Slavia Prague) - 16
6 Stanley Matthews (England/Stoke City) - 9
7 Silvio Piola (Italy/Lazio) - 4
8 Gyula Zsengeller (Hungary/Ujpest) - 2
9 Cliff Bastin (England/Arsenal), Antonio Sastre (Argentina/Independiente) - 1

1939 Ballon d'Or Revisited Big Soccer panel consensus
1 Arsenio Erico (Paraguay/Independiente) - 65
2 Gyula Zsengeller (Hungray/Ujpest) - 50
3 Tommy Lawton (England/Everton) - 36
4 Antonio Sastre (Argentina/Independiente) - 34
5 Stanley Matthews (England/Stoke City) - 21
6 Jose Manuel Moreno (Argentina/River Plate) - 13
7 Leonidas (Brazil/Flamengo) - 6
8 Lolo Fernandez (Peru/Universitario) - 2
9 Michele Andreolo (Italy/Bologna), Vicente de la Mata (Argentina/Independiente), Isidro Langara (Basque Country*/Deportivo Euzkadi/San Lorenzo) - 1

@IceBlood34 I've highlighted some relevant names in green, to indicate where some points have been being added/removed etc, but given I'd used the wrong update like I said before then I think the best thing to do when it comes to your presentation of top 5 standings, templates etc is to check these new standings for each year in full.

 

....... yes ,... it's pretty cool man .... but it's harder to make this ....https://www.rsssf.org/players/prolific.html

 

Kudos for the write-ups on your site @Gutigut - I am having another look at the 1930s ones now (to help verify we've got everything correct now) and I think especially for years so long ago you have done an excellent job putting together descriptive words about the players and their seasons....

 

One season (all matches – Top level)
NB: preliminary list containing:

1. Official goals in top level;
2. All international friendlies;
3. National friendlies against top-league teams; tournaments; select matches.

Pele 1959 120 101(68/55, 42/36 Int, 4/4 sel, 6/6 ag. clubs)
Willimowski, Ernst 1940-41 111 48
Pele 1961 105 72
Roberts, Frederick 1930-31 105 53
Bambrick, Joseph 1929-30 103 60
Pele 1965 103 74
Kocsis, Sandor 1954 101 60 #
Deak, Ferenc 1948-49 99 57
Messi, Lionel 2012* 98 74
Sarosi, György 1937-38 95 49 NEW

 

Yes, for sure that took a lot of work! I know @IceBlood34 has been interested in that historical scoring data too himself (and where possible assist data, but it becomes harder/impossible the further back in time we go).

On this thread he was just interested to canvass ideas/opinions about the best players of each year/season (with some leeway for people to prioritise one or the other) in a 'Ballon d'Or esque' vote. The points are the results of all the votes.

 

.... yes .... once i saw ... one guy ... that founded ... 315 assists by Stanley Matthews for example ..... .... was a great job... from him !!

 

Great. You know whether he identified all 315 assists, or whether he found a smaller sample and extrapolated an estimate from those (which I think some guys have been doing on Twitter and elsewhere for example)?

 

@PDG1978 and everybody
In the continuation of the discussion we had about Brazil 1949/1950, I found this article by Djukitch in France Football :

In short :
"Ademir has scored 4 goals against a terrified Sweden but Brazil most of all pay homage to Zizinho"

"Ademir scored 4 out of 7 goals but in my opinion the most precious player in the forward line was Zizinho who... did not score a single goal. Zizinho is the worker of a team of which Ademir is the brilliant shooter and Jair is the matador". [...]
"Zizinho is the sheep dog of the Brazilian team". [...]
"Zizinho is not a so elegant footballer. But he is cunning/ crafty, audacious, he admirably understands the collective game, possesses an inextinguishable breath and fights from end to end of a match without getting discouraged". [...]
"Whittaker, the manager of England, assesses that Zizinho is the most complete player of Brazil, or more precisely that he is the most useful to his team. The English referee Barrick, on his side, thinks that he is the only one Brazilian footballer who could play overnight in an English team."

In the right corner, about Jair, they say that "he is the elder of the team (by experience but also quite by age), that he is an immovable starter of the team, that he has a perfect technique, is an extraordinary conductor of the game, with a nervous, sharp, jerky dribbling but millimetrically precise, with sometimes a subtle "paw kick" to reap the benefits. And his attitude in front of disarmed opponents brings to mind the attitude of the matador at the end of a majestuous veronica.
But Jair has the defaults of his qualities, he is a lord who is conscious of his market value. He seems to fully play only at the occasions that he estimates to be interesting. It is true that as he doesn't always have partners of his height on his team, he sometimes seems to discourage himself and falls into apathy. Which outrages the burning supporters. On the other hand, with the Brazilian team, he is always unchained."

11 years later, still in FF, his brief profile :
JAIR (Brazil). ___ Inside left of the Brazilian Team runner-up of the 1950 World Cup, he was an astonishing juggler and handler of the ball.
https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/inside-forwards-of-yesterday-today.2031794/

 

yes .........Ademir de Menezes .... 9 goals ++++++ 6 assists ... on World Cup in 1950 ..!!!

 

.... yes ,.... i'll be searching ...by assists .....by Stanley Matthews ...in the him career ...

 

..... I believe ...that Ruud Gullit ... Stanley Matthews ,,,,.. Overath .... Netzer ,,,...Rivellino ...Didi Dry Leaf ... Zizinho .... all these guys ... has 300 assists ...for sure or more+ evenlly !!!

 

It depends how you want to do it I guess mate doesn't it, but if pre-1920s is to be considered part of your project I guess it is only complete once that is included (even as approximated as the votes have to be for that period, based on interpreting the writings of others who lived at the time I suppose). I mean, you could separate it out and do a 1920-2023 summary, but I guess you still want pre-1920 included on this thread at least?

Maybe you could start making your top 10s templates for later years though (from 1950, from 1946, from 1920 or however you might like....)? Those should now be decided for many years in effect I suppose shouldn't they?

 

AlFredo Di Stefano ..... major goals ...

..... the best player til 1920 .... was Vivian Woodward ... later ... really... has so many many players ....The Uruguay National Team ;..!!go further !!