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2016 Ballon d'Or

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2016 Ballon d'Or
2016 Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo
Date12 December 2016 (2016-12-12)
LocationParis, France
Presented byFrance Football
Highlights
Won byPortugal Cristiano Ronaldo (4th award)
Websitewww.francefootball.fr
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The 2016 Ballon d'Or was an award given to the best-performing football player around the world in 2016.

In September 2016, France Football announced that their partnership with FIFA for the FIFA Ballon d'Or award had come to an end and that they would revive the Ballon d'Or award, treating the 2016 edition as the 61st award.[1]

France Football announced that they would publish a shortlist of 30 players across six announcements with two hour intervals on 24 October 2016. On 12 December 2016, Cristiano Ronaldo won the award by a record margin of 429 points ahead of second placed Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann, who came third.[2][3]

There were 173 voters. All were journalists, in a change from previous years, and each voter was from a different country.[4] Each voter voted for three players who received 5 points, 3 points and one point respectively.

Ronaldo scored 745 points out of a maximum possible of 865. It was his fourth Ballon d'Or, the most of any European player in the history of the award.

Rankings

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Sources:[5][6][7][8]

Rank Player Club(s) Points
1 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo Spain Real Madrid 745
2 Argentina Lionel Messi Spain Barcelona 316
3 France Antoine Griezmann Spain Atlético Madrid 198
4 Uruguay Luis Suárez Spain Barcelona 91
5 Brazil Neymar Spain Barcelona 68
6 Wales Gareth Bale Spain Real Madrid 60
7 Algeria Riyad Mahrez England Leicester City 20
8 England Jamie Vardy England Leicester City 11
9 Italy Gianluigi Buffon Italy Juventus 8
Portugal Pepe Spain Real Madrid 8
11 Gabon Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Germany Borussia Dortmund 7
12 Portugal Rui Patrício Portugal Sporting CP 6
13 Sweden Zlatan Ibrahimović France Paris Saint-Germain
England Manchester United
5
14 France Paul Pogba Italy Juventus
England Manchester United
4
Chile Arturo Vidal Germany Bayern Munich 4
16 Poland Robert Lewandowski Germany Bayern Munich 3
17 Germany Toni Kroos Spain Real Madrid 1
Croatia Luka Modrić Spain Real Madrid 1
France Dimitri Payet England West Ham United 1
20 Argentina Sergio Agüero England Manchester City 0
Belgium Kevin De Bruyne England Manchester City 0
Argentina Paulo Dybala Italy Juventus 0
Uruguay Diego Godín Spain Atlético Madrid 0
Argentina Gonzalo Higuaín Italy Napoli
Italy Juventus
0
Spain Andrés Iniesta Spain Barcelona 0
Spain Koke Spain Atlético Madrid 0
France Hugo Lloris England Tottenham Hotspur 0
Germany Thomas Müller Germany Bayern Munich 0
Germany Manuel Neuer Germany Bayern Munich 0
Spain Sergio Ramos Spain Real Madrid 0

References

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  1. ^ "Nouvelle donne pour le Ballon d'Or" (in French). France Football. 16 September 2016. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Ballon d'Or France Football 2016 : rendez-vous à partir de lundi matin à 8 heures sur FF.fr et dès mardi dans FF pour découvrir la liste des 30 nommés" (in French). France Football. 24 October 2016. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Cristiano Ronaldo wins Ballon d'Or for the fourth time". Guardian. 12 December 2016. Archived from the original on 13 December 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Ballon d'Or 2016 results - the final rankings as Cristiano Ronaldo scoops award". The Telegraph. 12 December 2016. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Ballon d'Or France Football : de Sergio Agüero à Cristiano Ronaldo, voici les cinq premiers nommés de la liste des 30". France Football (in French). 24 October 2016. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  6. ^ "Ballon d'Or France Football 2016 : De Kevin De Bruyne à Gonzalo Higuain (2/6)". France Football (in French). 24 October 2016. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  7. ^ "Ballon d'Or France Football : voici la troisième partie de la liste des 30". France Football (in French). 24 October 2016. Archived from the original on 8 December 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  8. ^ "Ballon d'Or France Football 2016, : Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Griezmann, Pogba... Le classement complet". France Football (in French). Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2016.