Ballon d’Or 2023: Full list of Ballon d’Or winners from 1956 to 2022

This year’s ceremony will be the 67th Ballon d’Or award. The first-ever Ballon d’Or award was presented in 1956 and it was won by Stanley Matthews of England.

Ballon d’Or is presented by French news magazine France Football since 1956. Some of the biggest names in football have won the award with Argentina’s Lionel Messi bagging the honour most times – seven. The next best is Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo with five awards.

Last year, France’s Karim Benzema took the honour while in 2020, the award was not presented to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here is the full list of Ballon d’Or award winners from 1956 to 2022.

2022 – Karim Benzema (France)

2021 – Lionel Messi (Argentina)

2020 – No award due to COVID-19 pandemic

2019 – Lionel Messi (Argentina)

2018 – Luka Modric (Croatia)

2017 – Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

2016 – Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

2015 – Lionel Messi (Argentina)

2014 – Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

2013 – Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

2012 – Lionel Messi (Argentina)

2011 – Lionel Messi (Argentina)

2010 – Lionel Messi (Argentina)

2009 – Lionel Messi (Argentina)

2008 – Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

2007 – Kaka (Brazil)

2006 – Fabio Cannavaro (Italy)

2005 – Ronaldinho (Brazil)

2004 – Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine)

2003 – Pavel Nedved (Czech Republic)

2002 – Ronaldo (Brazil)

2001 – Michael Owen (England)

2000 – Luis Figo (Portugal)

1999 – Rivaldo (Brazil)

1998 – Zinedine Zidane (France)

1997 – Ronaldo (Brazil)

1996 – Matthias Sammer (Germany)

1995 – George Weah (Liberia)

1994 – Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria)

1993 – Roberto Baggio (Italy)

1992 – Marco van Basten (Netherlands)

1991 – Jean-Pierre Papin (France)

1990 – Lothar Matthäus (Germany)

1989 – Marco van Basten (Netherlands)

1988 – Marco van Basten (Netherlands)

1987 – Ruud Gullit (Netherlands)

1986 – Igor Belanov (Soviet Union)

1985 – Michel Platini (France)

1984 – Michel Platini (France)

1983 – Michel Platini (France)

1982 – Paolo Rossi (Italy)

1981 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (West Germany)

1980 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (West Germany)

1979 – Kevin Keegan (England)

1978 – Kevin Keegan (England)

1977 – Allan Simonsen (Denmark)

1976 – Franz Beckenbauer (West Germany)

1975 – Oleg Blokhin (Soviet Union)

1974 – Johan Cruyff (Netherlands)

1973 – Johan Cruyff (Netherlands)

1972 – Franz Beckenbauer (West Germany)

1971 – Johan Cruyff (Netherlands)

1970 – Gerd Müller (West Germany)

1969 – Gianni Rivera (Italy)

1968 – George Best (Northern Ireland)

1967 – Florian Albert (Hungary)

1966 – Bobby Charlton (England)

1965 – Eusebio (Portugal)

1964 – Denis Law (Scotland)

1963 – Lev Yashin (Soviet Union)

1962 – Josef Masopust (Czechoslovakia)

1961 – Omar Sivori (Italy)

1960 – Luis Suárez (Spain)

1959 – Alfredo Di Stefano (Argentina)

1958 – Raymond Kopa (France)

1957 – Alfredo Di Stefano (Argentina)

1956 – Stanley Matthews (England)