1983 Ballon d'Or

1983 Ballon d'Or
1983 Ballon d'Or
	1983 Ballon d'Or winner Michel Platini in 1978
Date	27 December 1983
Presented by	France Football
Website	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1983 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 Michel Platini on 27 December 1983.^[1]

Platini was the second French national to win the award after Raymond Kopa (in 1958), and the third player from Juventus after Omar Sívori and Paolo Rossi (in 1961 and 1982, respectively).^[2]

Rankings

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Michel Platini	Juventus	France	110
2	Kenny Dalglish	Liverpool	Scotland	26
3	Allan Simonsen	Vejle	Denmark	25
4	Gordon Strachan	Aberdeen	Scotland	24
5	Felix Magath	Hamburger SV	West Germany	20
6	Jean-Marie Pfaff	Bayern Munich	Belgium	15
6	Rinat Dasayev	Spartak Moscow	Soviet Union	15
8	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Bayern Munich	West Germany	14
8	Jesper Olsen	Ajax	Denmark	14
10	Bryan Robson	Manchester United	England	13
11	Fernando Gomes	Porto	Portugal	10
	Bernd Schuster	Barcelona	West Germany	10
	Franky Vercauteren	Anderlecht	Belgium	10
	Alain Giresse	Bordeaux	France	10
15	Safet Sušić	Paris Saint-Germain	Yugoslavia	8
15	Ian Rush	Liverpool	Wales	8
17	Morten Olsen	Anderlecht	Denmark	6
18	Norman Whiteside	Manchester United	Northern Ireland	5
19	Bruno Conti	Roma	Italy	4
	Eric Gerets	Milan	Belgium	4
	Erwin Vandenbergh	Anderlecht	Belgium	4
	Michael Laudrup	Lazio	Denmark	4
23	Liam Brady	Sampdoria	Republic of Ireland	3
	Antonio Cabrini	Juventus	Italy	3
	Carlos Manuel	Benfica	Portugal	3
	Vasilis Hatzipanagis	Iraklis	Greece	3
	Glenn Hysén	IFK Göteborg	Sweden	3
	Paolo Rossi	Juventus	Italy	3
	Costică Ștefănescu	Universitatea Craiova	Romania	3
30	Zbigniew Boniek	Juventus	Poland	2
	Fedor Cherenkov	Spartak Moscow	Soviet Union	2
	Ruud Gullit	Feyenoord	Netherlands	2
33	Søren Lerby	Bayern Munich	Denmark	1
	Stoycho Mladenov	CSKA Sofia	Bulgaria	1
	Tibor Nyilasi	Austria Wien	Hungary	1
	Rudi Völler	Werder Bremen	West Germany	1