2016 Ballon d'Or

2016 Ballon d'Or
2016 Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo
Date	12 December 2016 (2016-12-12)
Location	Paris, France
Presented by	France Football
Highlights
Won by	Cristiano Ronaldo (4th award)
Website	www.francefootball.fr
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The 2016 Ballon d'Or was an award given to the best-performing football player around the world in 2016.

In September 2016, France Football announced that their partnership with FIFA for the FIFA Ballon d'Or award had come to an end and that they would revive the Ballon d'Or award, treating the 2016 edition as the 61st award. ^[1]

France Football announced that they would publish a shortlist of 30 players across six announcements with two hour intervals on 24 October 2016. On 12 December 2016, Cristiano Ronaldo won the award by a record margin of 429 points ahead of second placed Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann, who came third. ^{[2] [3]}

There were 173 voters. All were journalists, in a change from previous years, and each voter was from a different country. ^[4] Each voter voted for three players who received 5 points, 3 points and one point respectively.

Ronaldo scored 745 points out of a maximum possible of 865. It was his fourth Ballon d'Or, the most of any European player in the history of the award.

Rankings

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

Rank	Player	Club(s)	Points
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	745
2	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	316
3	Antoine Griezmann	Atlético Madrid	198
4	Luis Suárez	Barcelona	91
5	Neymar	Barcelona	68
6	Gareth Bale	Real Madrid	60
7	Riyad Mahrez	Leicester City	20
8	Jamie Vardy	Leicester City	11
9	Gianluigi Buffon	Juventus	8
	Pepe	Real Madrid	8
11	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Borussia Dortmund	7
12	Rui Patrício	Sporting CP	6
13	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Paris Saint-Germain Manchester United	5
14	Paul Pogba	Juventus Manchester United	4
	Arturo Vidal	Bayern Munich	4
16	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	3
17	Toni Kroos	Real Madrid	1
	Luka Modrić	Real Madrid	1
	Dimitri Payet	West Ham United	1
20	Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	0
	Kevin De Bruyne	Manchester City	0
	Paulo Dybala	Juventus	0
	Diego Godín	Atlético Madrid	0
	Gonzalo Higuaín	Napoli Juventus	0
	Andrés Iniesta	Barcelona	0
	Koke	Atlético Madrid	0
	Hugo Lloris	Tottenham Hotspur	0
	Thomas Müller	Bayern Munich	0
	Manuel Neuer	Bayern Munich	0
	Sergio Ramos	Real Madrid	0

References

1. "Nouvelle donne pour le Ballon d'Or" (in French). France Football. 16 September 2016. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
2. "Ballon d'Or France Football 2016 : rendez-vous à partir de lundi matin à 8 heures sur FF.fr et dès mardi dans FF pour découvrir la liste des 30 nommés" (in French). France Football. 24 October 2016. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
3. "Cristiano Ronaldo wins Ballon d'Or for the fourth time". Guardian. 12 December 2016. Archived from the original on 13 December 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
4. "Ballon d'Or 2016 results - the final rankings as Cristiano Ronaldo scoops award". The Telegraph. 12 December 2016. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
5. "Ballon d'Or France Football : de Sergio Agüero à Cristiano Ronaldo, voici les cinq premiers nommés de la liste des 30". France Football (in French). 24 October 2016. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
6. "Ballon d'Or France Football 2016 : De Kevin De Bruyne à Gonzalo Higuain (2/6)". France Football (in French). 24 October 2016. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
7. "Ballon d'Or France Football : voici la troisième partie de la liste des 30". France Football (in French). 24 October 2016. Archived from the original on 8 December 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
8. "Ballon d'Or France Football 2016, : Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Griezmann, Pogba... Le classement complet". France Football (in French). Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2016.