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- European Footballer of the Year 1963 -

 Name  Country  Club
Pts.
1.
 Lev Yashin  Soviet Union  Dinamo Moscow
73
2.
 Gianni Rivera  Italy  AC Milan
56
3.
 Jimmy Greaves  England  Tottenham Hotspur 51
4.
 Denis Law  Scotland  Manchester United 45
5.
 Eusebio  Portugal  Benfica 19
6.
 Karl-Heinz Schnellinger  West Germany  Mantova 16
7.
 Uwe Seeler  West Germany  Hamburger SV 9
8.
 Bobby Charlton  England  Manchester United 5
 Giovanni Trapattoni  Italy  AC Milan 5
 Luis Suárez  Spain  Inter Milan 5
11.
 Jose Altafini  Italy  AC Milan 4
12.
 Omar Sivori  Italy [1]  Juventus 3
 Florian Albert  Hungary  Ferencváros 3
 Harry Bild  Sweden  IFK Norrköping 3
   Josef Masopust  Czechoslovakia  Dukla Prague 3
 Paul van Himst  Belgium  Anderlecht 3
17.
 Jef Jurion  Belgium  Anderlecht 2
 Karoly Sandor  Hungary  MTK Budapest 2
 Robert Herbin  France  AS Saint-Etienne 2
 Cesare Maldini  Italy  AC Milan 2
21.  Mario Coluna  Portugal  Benfica 1
 Ake Johansson  Sweden  IFK Norrköping 1
 Manfred Kaiser  East Germany  Wismut Aue 1
 Metin Oktay  Turkey  Galatasaray 1
 Svatopluk Pluskal  Czechoslovakia  Dukla Prague 1
 


Lev Yashin won the Soviet Championship with Dinamo Moscow in 1963. He also drew attention to himself at a match held in honour of the Football Association's centenary, pulling of a number of excellent saves for the Rest of the World XI against England at Wembley. Earlier he had been victorious with the Soviet Union at the 1956 Olympics and the 1960 European Championship.

The result listed above was the outcome of a ballot held amongst a panel of football journalists organised by the magazine France Football, with one vote coming from each of the following 21 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia. The result was announced in France Football (December 17, 1963).


#1: Omar Sivori was born in Argentina, and had previously made international appearances for Argentina, but now played for Italy.



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