1985 Ballon d'Or explained

The 1985 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 Michel Platini on 24 December 1985. ^{[1] [2]}

Rankings

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Michel Platini	Juventus	France	127
2	Preben Elkjær	Hellas Verona	Denmark	71
3	Bernd Schuster	Barcelona		46
4	Michael Laudrup	Juventus	Denmark	14
5	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Internazionale		13
6	Zbigniew Boniek	Roma	Poland	12
7	Oleh Protasov	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk		10
8	Hans-Peter Briegel	Hellas Verona		9
9	Bryan Robson	Manchester United		8
	Rinat Dasayev	Spartak Moscow
11	Rudi Völler	Werder Bremen		7
12	Luis Fernández	Paris Saint-Germain	France	6
	Søren Lerby	Bayern Munich	Denmark
14	Rafael Gordillo	Real Madrid	Spain	5
	Ian Rush	Liverpool
16	Emilio Butragueño	Real Madrid	Spain	4
	Fernando Gomes	Porto	Portugal
18	Harald Schumacher	1. FC Köln		3
	John Sivebæk	Vejle	Denmark
	Neville Southall	Everton
21	Lajos Détári	Budapest Honvéd	Hungary	2
	Alain Giresse	Bordeaux	France
	Vahid Halilhodžić	Nantes
	Tibor Nyilasi	Austria Wien	Hungary
	Peter Reid	Everton
	Peter Shilton	Southampton
	Graeme Souness	Sampdoria
	Pat Jennings	Tottenham Hotspur
29	Steve Archibald	Barcelona		1
	Jan Ceulemans	Club Brugge	Belgium
	Anatoliy Demyanenko	Dinamo Kyiv
	Georgi Dimitrov	CSKA Sofia	Bulgaria
	Gheorghe Hagi	Sportul Studențesc	Romania
	Mark Hateley	Milan
	Herbert Prohaska	Austria Wien	Austria
	Gary Stevens	Everton
	Andreas Thom	Dynamo Berlin
	Ladislav Vízek	Dukla Prague

External links

• France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

Notes and References

1. Web site: 8 December 2013. Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1985 - Michel Platini. 9 July 2020. France Football.
2. Web site: 1 May 2005. European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1985. 9 July 2020. RSSSF.