1958 Ballon d'Or

The 1958 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Raymond Kopa on 16 December 1958.^[1]

1958 Ballon d'Or
1958 Ballon d'Or winner Raymond Kopa
Date	16 December 1958
Location	Paris, France
Presented by	France Football
Highlights
Won by	Raymond Kopa (1st award)
Website	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or
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Rankings

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Raymond Kopa	Real Madrid	France	71
2	Helmut Rahn	Rot-Weiss Essen	West Germany	40
3	Just Fontaine	Reims	France	23
4	John Charles	Juventus	Wales	15
	Kurt Hamrin	Padova Fiorentina	Sweden
6	Billy Wright	Wolverhampton Wanderers	England	9
7	Johnny Haynes	Fulham	England	7
8	Harry Gregg	Manchester United	Northern Ireland	6
	Nils Liedholm	Milan	Sweden
	Horst Szymaniak	Wuppertaler SV	West Germany
11	Colin McDonald	Burnley	England	5
12	Paco Gento	Real Madrid	Spain	4
	Gunnar Gren	Örgryte IS	Sweden
14	Vujadin Boškov	Vojvodina	Yugoslavia	3
	Bengt Gustavsson	Atalanta	Sweden
	Valentin Ivanov	Torpedo Moskva	Soviet Union
	Luis Suárez	Barcelona	Spain
	Lev Yashin	Dynamo Moscow	Soviet Union
19	Orvar Bergmark	Örebro SK	Sweden	2
	Danny Blanchflower	Tottenham Hotspur	Northern Ireland
	Ivan Kolev	CDNA Sofia	Bulgaria
	Bruno Nicolè	Juventus	Italy
	Ladislav Novák	Dukla Prague	Czechoslovakia
	Lennart Skoglund	Internazionale	Sweden
25	Giampiero Boniperti	Juventus	Italy	1
	Gerhard Hanappi	Rapid Wien	Austria