1981 Ballon d'Or
1981 Ballon d'Or winner Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in 1982
Date	29 December 1981
Presented by	France Football
Website	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or
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The 1981 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 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on 29 December 1981. ^[1][2]

This was Rummenigge's second win in succession.

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Bayern Munich	West Germany	106
2	Paul Breitner	Bayern Munich	West Germany	64
3	Bernd Schuster	Barcelona	West Germany	39
4	Michel Platini	Saint-Étienne	France	36
5	Oleg Blokhin	Dinamo Kyiv	Soviet Union	14
6	Dino Zoff	Juventus	Italy	13
7	Ramaz Shengelia	Dinamo Tbilisi	Soviet Union	10
8	Alexsandr Chivadze	Dinamo Tbilisi	Soviet Union	9
9	Liam Brady	Juventus	Republic of Ireland	7
	John Wark	Ipswich Town	Scotland
11	David Kipiani	Dinamo Tbilisi	Soviet Union	6
	András Törőcsik	Újpest	Hungary
	Zbigniew Boniek	Widzew Łódź	Poland
	Maxime Bossis	Nantes	France
	Bruno Pezzey	Eintracht Frankfurt	Austria
16	Horst Hrubesch	Hamburger SV	West Germany	5
	Ruud Krol	Napoli	Netherlands
	Vladimir Petrović	Red Star Belgrade	Yugoslavia
19	Zlatko Vujovic	Hajduk Split	Yugoslavia	4
	Trevor Brooking	West Ham United	England
21	Giancarlo Antognoni	Fiorentina	Italy	3
	Jan Ceulemans	Club Brugge	Belgium
	Kenny Dalglish	Liverpool	Scotland
	Bryan Robson	Manchester United	England
	Frank Stapleton	Manchester United	Ireland
	Wilfried Van Moer	Beveren	Belgium
	Luis Arconada	Real Sociedad	Spain
28	Grzegorz Lato	Lokeren	Poland	2
	Tibor Nyilasi	Ferencváros	Hungary
	Wlodzimierz Smolarek	Widzew Łódź	Poland
	Frans Thijssen	Ipswich Town	Netherlands
32	António Oliveira	Sporting CP	Portugal	1
	Uli Stielike	Real Madrid	West Germany
	Jesús Zamora	Real Sociedad	Spain

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