1976 Ballon d'Or

1976 Ballon d'Or
1976 Ballon d'Or winner Franz Beckenbauer
Date	28 December 1976
Presented by	France Football
Website	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or
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The 1976 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 West German defender Franz Beckenbauer on 28 December 1976.^[1] There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.^[2]

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Franz Beckenbauer	Bayern Munich	West Germany	91
2	Rob Rensenbrink	Anderlecht	Netherlands	75
3	Ivo Viktor	Dukla Prague	Czechoslovakia	52
4	Kevin Keegan	Liverpool	England	32
5	Michel Platini	Nancy	France	19
6	Anton Ondruš	Slovan Bratislava	Czechoslovakia	16
7	Johan Cruyff	Barcelona	Netherlands	12
	Ivan Ćurković	Saint-Étienne	Yugoslavia
9	Rainer Bonhof	Borussia Mönchengladbach	West Germany	9
	Gerd Müller	Bayern Munich	West Germany
	Marián Masný	Slovan Bratislava	Czechoslovakia
12	Franco Causio	Juventus	Italy	7
13	Berti Vogts	Borussia Mönchengladbach	West Germany	6
14	Tibor Nyilasi	Ferencváros	Hungary	5
15	Roberto Bettega	Juventus	Italy	4
	Jürgen Croy	Sachsenring Zwickau	East Germany
	Dudu Georgescu	Dinamo București	Romania
	Jaroslav Pollák	VSS Košice	Czechoslovakia
19	Oleg Blokhin	Dinamo Kyiv	Soviet Union	3
	Joachim Streich	1. FC Magdeburg	East Germany
21	Gérard Janvion	Saint-Étienne	France	2
	Dieter Müller	1. FC Köln	West Germany
	Dominique Rocheteau	Saint-Étienne	France
	Santillana	Real Madrid	Spain
	Benny Wendt	Tennis Borussia Berlin	Sweden
26	Dominique Bathenay	Saint-Étienne	France	1
	Jupp Heynckes	Borussia Mönchengladbach	West Germany
	Ali Kemal	Trabzonspor	Turkey
	Dino Zoff	Juventus	Italy

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