1965 Ballon d'Or

1965 Ballon d'Or
1965 Ballon d'Or winner Eusébio
Date28 December 1965
LocationParis, France
Presented byFrance Football
Highlights
Won by Eusébio (1st award)
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1965 Ballon d'Or was the tenth Ballon d'Or awarded. It was won by Benfica forward Eusébio.[1]

Rankings

Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Eusébio Benfica  Portugal 67
2 Giacinto Facchetti Internazionale  Italy 59
3 Luis Suárez Internazionale  Spain 45
4 Paul Van Himst Anderlecht  Belgium 25
5 Bobby Charlton Manchester United  England 19
6 Flórián Albert Ferencváros  Hungary 14
7 Gianni Rivera Milan  Italy 10
8 Georgi Asparuhov Levski Sofia  Bulgaria 9
Sandro Mazzola Internazionale  Italy
Valery Voronin Torpedo Moskva  Soviet Union
11 Denis Law Manchester United  Scotland 8
12 Karl-Heinz Schnellinger Roma
Milan
 West Germany 6
13 Jim Baxter Rangers
Sunderland
 Scotland 5
Ferenc Puskás Real Madrid  Spain
15 Mario Corso Internazionale  Italy 3
Lev Yashin Dynamo Moscow  Soviet Union
17 Amancio Real Madrid  Spain 2
Franz Beckenbauer Bayern Munich  West Germany
Ferenc Bene Újpest  Hungary
Mário Coluna Benfica  Portugal
Milan Galić Partizan  Yugoslavia
Philippe Gondet Nantes  France
Andrej Kvašňák Sparta Prague  Czechoslovakia
Slava Metreveli Dinamo Tbilisi  Soviet Union
25 Ivor Allchurch Cardiff City
Swansea Town
 Wales 1
Sigfried Held Kickers Offenbach
Borussia Dortmund
 West Germany
Köbi Kuhn Zürich   Switzerland

References

  1. Pierrend, José Luis (22 June 2005). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1965". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 18 September 2025.