The 1980 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 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on 30 December 1980.
Rummenigge was the third (West) German national to win the award after Gerd Müller in 1970 and Franz Beckenbauer in 1972 and 1976. After these two players, Rummenigge was also the third Bayern Munich player to win the trophy.
Rankings RankNameClub(s)NationalityPoints 1 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Bayern Munich 122 2 Bernd Schuster Barcelona 34 3 Michel Platini Saint-Étienne 33 4 Wilfried Van Moer Beveren 27 5 Jan Ceulemans Club Brugge 20 6 Horst Hrubesch Hamburger SV 18 7 Herbert ProhaskaFrance Football reports Prohaska with 16 points. Internazionale 148 Hansi Müller VfB Stuttgart 11Liam Brady Juventus 1110 Manfred Kaltz Hamburger SV 1011 Erwin Vandenbergh Lierse 9Luis Arconada Real Sociedad 9Dino Zoff Juventus 914 Kenny Dalglish Liverpool 5Bruno PezzeyFrance Football reports Pezzey with 3 points. Eintracht Frankfurt 5 16 Terry McDermott Liverpool 4Viv Anderson Nottingham Forest 4Ruud Krol Napoli 4Francesco Graziani Torino 4 20 Ladislav Vízek Dukla Prague 3Manuel Bento Benfica 3 22 Frank Arnesen Ajax 2Antonín Panenka Bohemians 1905 2David O'Leary Arsenal 2Vladimir Petrović Red Star Belgrade 2Zbigniew Boniek Widzew Łódź 2 27 Giancarlo Antognoni Fiorentina 1Alessandro Altobelli Internazionale 1Marcel Răducanu Steaua București 1Trevor Francis Nottingham Forest 1Zdeněk Nehoda Dukla Prague 1Peter Shilton Nottingham Forest 1
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External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page