1965 Ballon d'Or

1965 Ballon d'Or
1965 Ballon d'Or
	1965 Ballon d'Or winner, Eusébio
Date	28 December 1965
Location	Paris, France
Presented by	France Football
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Won by	Eusébio (1st award)
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The 1965 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 Eusébio on 28 December 1965.^[1]^[2]

Date28 December 1965

LocationParis, France

Presented byFrance Football

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Eusébio (1st award)

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Eusébio was the first Portuguese national to win the award and still is the only Benfica player to have won it.^[3]

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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
13	Ferenc Puskás	Real Madrid	Spain	5
15	Mario Corso	Internazionale	Italy	3
15	Lev Yashin	Dynamo Moscow	Soviet Union	3
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

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