The 1986 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 Soviet forward Igor Belanov on 30 December 1986. There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Belanov became the second Ukrainian national to win the award after Oleg Blokhin (1975).
Rankings RankNameClub(s)NationalityPoints 1 Igor Belanov Dynamo Kyiv 84 2 Gary Lineker Everton Barcelona 62 3 Emilio Butragueño Real Madrid 59 4 Manuel Amoros Monaco 22 Preben Elkjær Hellas Verona 6 Ian Rush Liverpool 20 Oleksandr Zavarov Dynamo Kyiv 8 Helmut Duckadam Steaua București 10 Marco van Basten Ajax 10 Alessandro Altobelli Internazionale 9 11 Jean-Marie Pfaff Bayern Munich 8 Michel Platini Juventus 13 Jan Ceulemans Club Brugge 7 Søren Lerby Monaco 15 Morten Olsen Anderlecht 1. FC Köln 6 16 Rinat Dasayev Spartak Moscow 5 17 Luis Fernández Paris Saint-Germain RC Paris 4 Paulo Futre Porto Ruud Gullit PSV Eindhoven Harald Schumacher 1. FC Köln 21 Kenny Dalglish Liverpool 3 Jean Tigana Bordeaux Pavlo Yakovenko Dynamo Kyiv 24 Karlheinz Förster VfB Stuttgart Marseille 2 Lothar Matthäus Bayern Munich 26 Michael Laudrup Juventus 1 Rudi Völler Werder Bremen
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External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page