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1957 Ballon d'Or

Annual football award event in France

Field	Value
name	1957 Ballon d'Or
image	File:Di stefano real madrid cf (cropped).png
caption	1957 Ballon d'Or winner Alfredo Di Stéfano
date	17 December 1957
location	Paris, France
presenter	France Football
website
award1_type	Won by
award1_winner	ESP Alfredo Di Stéfano (1st award)
previous	1956
main	Ballon d'Or
next	1958

The 1957 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 Alfredo Di Stéfano on 17 December 1957.

Rankings

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Alfredo Di Stéfano	Real Madrid	Spain	72
2	Billy Wright	Wolverhampton Wanderers	England	19
3	Duncan Edwards	Manchester United	England	16
Raymond Kopa	Real Madrid	France
5	László Kubala	Barcelona	Hungary	15
6	John Charles	Leeds United
Juventus	Wales	14
7	Eduard Streltsov	Torpedo Moscow	Soviet Union	12
8	Tommy Taylor	Manchester United	England	10
9	József Bozsik	Budapest Honvéd	Hungary	9
Igor Netto	Spartak Moscow	Soviet Union
11	Lev Yashin	Dynamo Moscow	Soviet Union	8
12	Paco Gento	Real Madrid	Spain	7
Gyula Grosics	Budapest Honvéd
Tatabánya	Hungary
14	Danny Blanchflower	Tottenham Hotspur	Northern Ireland	4
Miloš Milutinović	Partizan	Yugoslavia
Juan Alberto Schiaffino	Milan	Italy
17	Gerhard Hanappi	Rapid Wien	Austria	3
Johnny Haynes	Fulham	England
Stanley Matthews	Blackpool	England
20	Sándor Kocsis	Young Fellows Zürich	Hungary	2
Horst Szymaniak	Wuppertaler SV	West Germany
22	Kurt Hamrin	Padova	Sweden	1
Ladislav Novák	Dukla Prague	Czechoslovakia

Notes

References

Pierrend, José. (18 April 2007). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1957". [[RSSSF]].
(22 November 2004). "Europe dazzled by Di Stéfano". [[UEFA]].

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