The 1986 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 Soviet forward Igor Belanov on 30 December 1986.[1] There were 26 voters, from 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.[2] Belanov became the third Soviet and the second Ukrainian national to win the award after Lev Yashin (1963) and Oleg Blokhin (1975).

1986 Ballon d'Or
1986 Ballon d'Or winner Igor Belanov in 2012
Date30 December 1986
Presented byFrance Football
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Rankings

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Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Igor Belanov   Dynamo Kyiv   Soviet Union 84
2 Gary Lineker   Everton
  Barcelona
  England 62
3 Emilio Butragueño   Real Madrid   Spain 59
4 Manuel Amoros   Monaco   France 22
Preben Elkjær   Hellas Verona   Denmark
6 Ian Rush   Liverpool   Wales 20
Oleksandr Zavarov   Dynamo Kyiv   Soviet Union
8 Helmuth Duckadam   Steaua București   Romania 10
Marco van Basten   Ajax   Netherlands
10 Alessandro Altobelli   Internazionale   Italy 9
11 Jean-Marie Pfaff   Bayern Munich   Belgium 8
Michel Platini   Juventus   France
13 Jan Ceulemans   Club Brugge   Belgium 7
Søren Lerby   Monaco   Denmark
15 Morten Olsen   Anderlecht
  1. FC Köln
  Denmark 6
16 Rinat Dasayev   Spartak Moscow   Soviet Union 5
17 Luis Fernández   Paris Saint-Germain
  RC Paris
  France 4
Paulo Futre   Porto   Portugal
Ruud Gullit   PSV Eindhoven   Netherlands
Harald Schumacher   1. FC Köln   West Germany
21 Kenny Dalglish   Liverpool   Scotland 3
Jean Tigana   Bordeaux   France
Pavlo Yakovenko   Dynamo Kyiv   Soviet Union
24 Karlheinz Förster   VfB Stuttgart
  Marseille
  West Germany 2
Lothar Matthäus   Bayern Munich   West Germany
26 Michael Laudrup   Juventus   Denmark 1
Rudi Völler   Werder Bremen   West Germany

Notes and references

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  1. ^ "Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1986 - Igor Belanov". France Football. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  2. ^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1986". RSSSF. 26 March 2005. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
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