1988 Ballon d'Or
1988 Ballon d'Or winner Marco van Basten
Date	27 December 1988
Presented by	France Football
Website	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or
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The 1988 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 Marco van Basten on 27 December 1988.^[1] There were 27 voters, from Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Van Basten was the third Dutch national to win the award after Johan Cruyff (1971, 1973, 1974) and Ruud Gullit (1987).

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Marco van Basten	Milan	Netherlands	129
2	Ruud Gullit	Milan	Netherlands	88
3	Frank Rijkaard	Milan	Netherlands	45
4	Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko	Dynamo Kyiv	Soviet Union	41
5	Ronald Koeman	PSV Eindhoven	Netherlands	39
6	Lothar Matthäus	Internazionale	West Germany	10
7	Gianluca Vialli	Sampdoria	Italy	7
8	Franco Baresi	Milan	Italy	5
	Jürgen Klinsmann	VfB Stuttgart	West Germany	5
	Oleksandr Zavarov	Juventus	Soviet Union	5
11	Tanju Çolak	Galatasaray	Turkey	4
	Oleh Kuznetsov	Dynamo Kyiv	Soviet Union	4
13	Rinat Dasayev	Sevilla	Soviet Union	3
	Anatoliy Demyanenko	Dynamo Kyiv	Soviet Union	3
	Glenn Hysén	Fiorentina	Sweden	3
	Míchel	Real Madrid	Spain	3
17	Flemming Povlsen	1. FC Köln	Denmark	2
	Michel Preud'homme	Mechelen	Belgium	2
	Walter Zenga	Internazionale	Italy	2
20	Gheorghe Hagi	Steaua București	Romania	1
	Roberto Mancini	Sampdoria	Italy	1
	Dejan Savićević	Red Star Belgrade	Yugoslavia	1
	Neville Southall	Everton	Wales	1
	Dragan Stojković	Red Star Belgrade	Yugoslavia	1

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