1999 Ballon d'Or
1999 Ballon d'Or winner Rivaldo in 2014
Date21 December 1999
Presented byFrance Football
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1999 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 Rivaldo on 21 December 1999.[1]

Rankings

Rank Name Club(s) Nationality Points
1RivaldoSpain Barcelona Brazil219
2David BeckhamEngland Manchester United England154
3Andriy ShevchenkoItaly Milan Ukraine64
4Gabriel BatistutaItaly Fiorentina Argentina48
5Luís FigoSpain Barcelona Portugal38
6Roy KeaneEngland Manchester United Republic of Ireland36
7Christian VieriItaly Lazio Italy33
8Juan Sebastián VerónItaly Lazio Argentina30
9RaúlSpain Real Madrid Spain27
10Lothar MatthäusGermany Bayern Munich Germany16
11Dwight YorkeEngland Manchester United Trinidad and Tobago14
12Jaap StamEngland Manchester United Netherlands13
13Siniša MihajlovićItaly Lazio FR Yugoslavia12
14Zlatko ZahovičGreece Olympiacos Slovenia9
15Pavel NedvědItaly Lazio Czech Republic8
16Mário JardelPortugal Porto Brazil7
17Peter SchmeichelEngland Manchester United Denmark6
18Stefan EffenbergGermany Bayern Munich Germany5
19Zinedine ZidaneItaly Juventus France4
Oliver BierhoffItaly Milan Germany4
21Mario BaslerGermany Bayern Munich Germany3
Ryan GiggsEngland Manchester United Wales3
23Hernán CrespoItaly Parma Argentina2
Nwankwo KanuEngland Arsenal Nigeria2
RonaldoItaly Internazionale Brazil2
26Andy ColeEngland Manchester United England1
Edgar DavidsItaly Juventus Netherlands1
David GinolaEngland Tottenham Hotspur France1
Claudio LópezSpain Valencia Argentina1
Roberto CarlosSpain Real Madrid Brazil1
Marcelo SalasItaly Lazio Chile1

Additionally, 22 players were nominated but received no votes: Fabien Barthez, Dennis Bergkamp, Laurent Blanc, Gianluigi Buffon, Frank de Boer, Marcel Desailly, Giovane Élber, Pep Guardiola, Filippo Inzaghi, Patrick Kluivert, Paolo Maldini, Fernando Morientes, Hidetoshi Nakata, Emmanuel Petit, Gus Poyet, Oleksandr Shovkovskyi, Lilian Thuram, Sylvain Wiltord and Gianfranco Zola.

References

  1. Pierrend, José Luis (26 March 2005). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1999". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 14 March 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
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