Awarded for | Association football award |
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Country | Sweden |
Presented by | Swedish Football Association, Aftonbladet |
History | |
Most wins | Zlatan Ibrahimović (12) |
Most recent | Dejan Kulusevski (2023) |
Guldbollen (Golden Ball) is a Swedish football award given by Aftonbladet and the Swedish Football Association to the best male Swedish footballer each year.
The award was created by Bengt Liljedahl [1] and between 1946 and 1965 it was awarded in cooperation with Stockholms-Tidningen . [2]
The first Guldbollen award was given in 1946 to Gunnar Gren. [3] In 1973, Bo Larsson of Malmö FF became the first player to win the award for a second time, having previously won it in 1965. Zlatan Ibrahimović is the only player to win the award more than twice, winning it twelve times between 2005 and 2020. [4]
The female equivalent of the award, Diamantbollen, was established in 1990. Both Guldbollen and Diamantbollen are now awarded at the Fotbollsgalan.
Source: [5]
Club | Wins |
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IFK Norrköping | 11 |
Malmö FF | 8 |
Paris Saint-Germain | 5 |
Barcelona | 4 |
IFK Göteborg | 4 |
Milan | 4 |
Arsenal | 3 |
Helsingborgs IF | 3 |
Internazionale | 3 |
1. FC Kaiserslautern | 3 |
Manchester United | 3 |
Östers IF | 3 |
Borussia Mönchengladbach | 2 |
Celtic | 2 |
Degerfors IF | 2 |
Djurgårdens IF | 2 |
Parma | 2 |
PSV Eindhoven | 2 |
Tottenham Hotspur | 2 |
Åtvidabergs FF | 2 |
AIK | 1 |
Ajax | 1 |
Anderlecht | 1 |
Aston Villa | 1 |
Atalanta | 1 |
Bayern Munich | 1 |
Benfica | 1 |
IK Brage | 1 |
Coventry City | 1 |
Fiorentina | 1 |
Hammarby IF | 1 |
Juventus | 1 |
RB Leipzig | 1 |
VfB Stuttgart | 1 |
Sunderland | 1 |
Valencia | 1 |
Young Boys | 1 |
Örebro SK | 1 |
Örgryte IS | 1 |
Krasnodar | 1 |
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