|
Name |
Country |
Club |
Pts. |
1. |
Kevin Keegan |
England |
Hamburger SV |
118 |
2. |
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge |
West Germany |
Bayern Munich |
52 |
3. |
Ruud Krol |
Holland |
Ajax |
41 |
4. |
Manfred Kaltz |
West Germany |
Hamburger SV |
27 |
5. |
Michel Platini |
France |
AS Saint Etienne |
23 |
6. |
Paolo Rossi |
Italy |
Vincenza |
16 |
7. |
Trevor Francis |
England |
Nottingham Forest |
13 |
|
Liam Brady |
Ireland |
Arsenal |
13 |
9. |
Zbigniew Boniek |
Poland |
Widzew Lodz |
8 |
|
Zdenek Nehoda |
Czechoslovakia |
Dukla Prague |
8 |
11. |
Kenny Dalglish |
Scotland |
Liverpool |
7 |
|
Allan Simonsen |
Denmark |
FC Barcelona |
7 |
13. |
Paul Breitner |
West Germany |
Bayern Munich |
6 |
|
Kees Kist |
Holland |
AZ'67 Alkmaar |
6 |
15. |
Johnny Rep |
Holland |
AS Saint-Etienne |
5 |
|
Tony Woodcock |
England |
1.FC Köln |
5 |
|
Hans Krankl |
Austria |
FC Barcelona |
5 |
|
Safet Susic |
Yugoslavia |
Sarajevo |
5 |
19. |
Uli Stielike |
West Germany |
Real Madrid |
4 |
20. |
Marius Tresor |
France |
Olympique Marseille |
3 |
21. |
João Alves |
Portugal |
Paris Saint Germain |
2 |
|
Franco Causio |
Italy |
Juventus |
2 |
|
Gordon McQueen |
Scotland |
Manchester United |
2 |
|
René van de Kerkhof |
Holland |
PSV Einhoven |
2 |
|
Bruno Pezzey |
Austria |
Eintracht Frankfurt |
2 |
|
Simon Tahamata |
Holland |
Ajax |
2 |
27. |
Juan Manuel Asensi |
Spain |
FC Barcelona |
1 |
|
Trevor Brooking |
England |
West Ham United |
1 |
|
Ronnie Hellström |
Sweden |
1. FC Kaiserslautern |
1 |
|
Hansi Müller |
West Germany |
VfB Stuttgart |
1 |
|
Antonin Panenka |
Czechoslovakia |
Bohemians Prague |
1 |
|
Walter Schachner |
Austria |
Austria Wien |
1 |
| |
Kevin Keegan was named European Footballer of the Year in 1979. It was the second time in a row the industrious forward won the Ballon d'Or. Keegan helped Hamburger SV win the German Bundesliga that year, scoring seventeen goals in the process. It was HSV's first league title in almost twenty years.
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 26 countries: 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. The result was announced in
France Football (December 25, 1979).