1980 Ballon d'Or

The 1980 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 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on 30 December 1980.^[1]

1980 Ballon d'Or
1980 Ballon d'Or winner Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in 1982
Date	30 December 1980
Presented by	France Football
Website	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or
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Rummenigge was the third (West) German national to win the award after Gerd Müller in 1970 and Franz Beckenbauer in 1972 and 1976. After these two players, Rummenigge was also the third Bayern Munich player to win the trophy.^[2]

Rankings

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Bayern Munich	West Germany	122
2	Bernd Schuster	Barcelona	West Germany	34
3	Michel Platini	Saint-Étienne	France	33
4	Wilfried Van Moer	Beveren	Belgium	27
5	Jan Ceulemans	Club Brugge	Belgium	20
6	Horst Hrubesch	Hamburger SV	West Germany	18
7	Herbert Prohaska[notes 1]	Internazionale	Austria	14
8	Hansi Müller	VfB Stuttgart	West Germany	11
	Liam Brady	Juventus	Republic of Ireland	11
10	Manfred Kaltz	Hamburger SV	West Germany	10
11	Erwin Vandenbergh	Lierse	Belgium	9
	Luis Arconada	Real Sociedad	Spain	9
	Dino Zoff	Juventus	Italy	9
14	Kenny Dalglish	Liverpool	Scotland	5
	Bruno Pezzey[notes 2]	Eintracht Frankfurt	Austria	5
16	Terry McDermott	Liverpool	England	4
	Viv Anderson	Nottingham Forest	England	4
	Ruud Krol	Napoli	Netherlands	4
	Francesco Graziani	Torino	Italy	4
20	Ladislav Vízek	Dukla Prague	Czechoslovakia	3
	Manuel Bento	Benfica	Portugal	3
22	Frank Arnesen	Ajax	Denmark	2
	Antonín Panenka	Bohemians 1905	Czechoslovakia	2
	David O'Leary	Arsenal	Republic of Ireland	2
	Vladimir Petrović	Red Star Belgrade	SFR Yugoslavia	2
	Zbigniew Boniek	Widzew Łódź	Poland	2
27	Giancarlo Antognoni	Fiorentina	Italy	1
	Alessandro Altobelli	Internazionale	Italy	1
	Marcel Răducanu	Steaua București	Romania	1
	Trevor Francis	Nottingham Forest	England	1
	Zdeněk Nehoda	Dukla Prague	Czechoslovakia	1
	Peter Shilton	Nottingham Forest	England	1

Notes

1. France Football reports Prohaska with 16 points.
2. France Football reports Pezzey with 3 points.

References

1. Pierrend, José Luis (1 May 2005). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1980". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
2. "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF. 18 December 2008. Archived from the original on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2008.

External links

• France Football Official Ballon d'Or page