How many players have won the Ballon d'Or in football history?

Here are each the players, the men's and women's teams, who person been crowned arsenic winners of the prestigious Ballon d'Or award.

The Ballon d’Or is an yearly shot grant created successful 1956 by France Football mag to recognise the champion idiosyncratic performances successful the sport.

Originally constricted to European players, eligibility expanded successful 1995 to see each players astatine European clubs and aboriginal opened worldwide successful 2007. The grant concisely merged with FIFA’s World Player of the Year betwixt 2010 and 2015 earlier returning to its archetypal format. It was not presented successful 2020 owed to the COVID-19 pandemic, and since 2024, UEFA has hosted the ceremonial portion France Football continues to negociate the voting system.

Who are the players who person been crowned winners of the Ballon d'Or award?

Here is simply a database of each azygous subordinate for the men's and women's teams who person received the honour of winning the Ballon d'Or grant since the inception of the grant ceremonial itself:

Every subordinate who has won the Ballon d'Or grant (Women)

Here is each subordinate who has won the Ballon d'Or successful the women's category:

1. Alexia Putellas – 2 (2021, 2022, FC Barcelona Femení, Spain)
2. Aitana Bonmatí – 2 (2023, 2024, FC Barcelona Femení, Spain)
3. Ada Hegerberg – 1 (2018, Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, Norway)
4. Megan Rapinoe – 1 (2019, Reign FC, USA)

Full database of each Ballon d'Or victor (men)

A full of 41 players person received the honour of being called a Ballon d'Or victor for the men's category, with astatine slightest 3 of the 41 players winning the grant a minimum of 3 times.

Here are the players who person won the Ballon d'Or aggregate times successful shot history:

1. Lionel Messi – 8 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023)
2. Cristiano Ronaldo – 5 (2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)
3. Johan Cruyff – 3 (1971, 1973, 1974)
4. Michel Platini – 3 (1983, 1984, 1985)
5. Marco van Basten – 3 (1988, 1989, 1992)
6. Franz Beckenbauer – 2 (1972, 1976)
7. Kevin Keegan – 2 (1978, 1979)
8. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge – 2 (1980, 1981)
9. Alfredo Di Stéfano – 2 (1957, 1959)
10. Ronaldo Nazário – 2 (1997, 2002)

Here are each the players who person won the Ballon d'Or for the men's category:

1950s

• 1956 – Stanley Matthews (Blackpool FC, England)
• 1957 – Alfredo Di Stéfano (Real Madrid, Argentina)
• 1958 – Raymond Kopa (Real Madrid, France)
• 1959 – Alfredo Di Stéfano (Real Madrid, Argentina)

1960s

• 1960 – Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona, Spain)
• 1961 – Omar Sívori (Juventus, Italy)
• 1962 – Josef Masopust (Dukla Prague, Czechoslovakia)
• 1963 – Lev Yashin (Dynamo Moscow, Soviet Union)
• 1964 – Denis Law (Manchester United, Scotland)
• 1965 – Eusébio (Benfica, Portugal)
• 1966 – Bobby Charlton (Manchester United, England)
• 1967 – Flórián Albert (Ferencvaros, Hungary)
• 1968 – George Best (Manchester United, Northern Ireland)
• 1969 – Gianni Rivera (AC Milan, Italy)

1970s

• 1970 – Gerd Müller (Bayern Munich, West Germany)
• 1971 – Johan Cruyff (Ajax, Netherlands)
• 1972 – Franz Beckenbauer (Bayern Munich, West Germany)
• 1973 – Johan Cruyff (FC Barcelona, Netherlands)
• 1974 – Johan Cruyff (FC Barcelona, Netherlands)
• 1975 – Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv, Soviet Union)
• 1976 – Franz Beckenbauer (Bayern Munich, West Germany)
• 1977 – Allan Simonsen (Borussia Mönchengladbach, Denmark)
• 1978 ...