1977 Ballon d'Or

1977 Ballon d'Or
1977 Ballon d'Or winner Allan Simonsen
Date	27 December 1977
Presented by	France Football
Website	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1977 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 the Danish forward Allan Simonsen on 27 December 1977. There were 25 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.

Rankings

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Allan Simonsen	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Denmark	74
2	Kevin Keegan	Liverpool Hamburger SV	England	71
3	Michel Platini	Nancy	France	70
4	Roberto Bettega	Juventus	Italy	39
5	Johan Cruyff	Barcelona	Netherlands	23
6	Klaus Fischer	Schalke 04	West Germany	21
7	Tibor Nyilasi	Ferencváros	Hungary	13
	Rob Rensenbrink	Anderlecht	Netherlands
9	Dudu Georgescu	Dinamo București	Romania	6
10	Emlyn Hughes	Liverpool	England	5
	Steve Heighway	Liverpool	Ireland
	Berti Vogts	Borussia Mönchengladbach	West Germany
13	Dominique Bathenay	Saint-Étienne	France	4
	Trevor Brooking	West Ham United	England
	Anders Linderoth	Marseille	Sweden
	Ronnie Hellström	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Sweden
	Franco Causio	Juventus	Italy
18	Ruud Krol	Ajax	Netherlands	3
	Marius Trésor	Marseille	France
20	Rainer Bonhof	Borussia Mönchengladbach	West Germany	2
	Heinz Flohe	1. FC Köln	West Germany
	Ruud Geels	Ajax	Netherlands
	Dieter Müller	1. FC Köln	West Germany
	Pirri	Real Madrid	Spain
	Peter Shilton	Nottingham Forest	England
26	Giancarlo Antognoni	Fiorentina	Italy	1
	Jürgen Grabowski	Eintracht Frankfurt	West Germany
	Gérard Janvion	Saint-Étienne	France
	Ray Kennedy	Liverpool	England
	Hans Krankl	Rapid Wien	Austria
	Gordon McQueen	Leeds United	Scotland
	András Törőcsik	Újpest	Hungary

External links

• France Football Official Ballon d'Or page