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2009 Ballon d'Or

Annual association football award event in France

Field	Value
name	2009 Ballon d'Or
subheader
image	File:Messi Training (cropped).jpg
caption	2009 Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi
date
location	Paris, France
country	France
presenter	France Football
website
award1_type	Won by
award1_winner	ARG Lionel Messi (1st award)
previous	[2008](2008-ballon-d-or)
main	Ballon d'Or
next	[2010](2010-fifa-ballon-d-or)

The 2009 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in the world as judged by an international panel of sports journalists, was awarded to Lionel Messi of Barcelona on 1 December 2009, the first of his record setting eight Ballon d'Or awards.

Messi won the award by a then record margin, 240 points ahead of 2008 winner Cristiano Ronaldo. Xavi was the second Barcelona player in the top three, finishing a further 63 points behind Ronaldo. Messi's win made him the first Argentine-born player to win the award since Omar Sívori in 1961; however, Sívori had taken Italian citizenship by that time and is recognised to have won the Ballon d'Or as an Italian player.

Rankings

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club(s)	Points
1	Lionel Messi	Argentina	Barcelona	473
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	Manchester United
Real Madrid	233
3	Xavi	Spain	Barcelona	170
4	Andrés Iniesta	Spain	Barcelona	149
5	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	Barcelona
Internazionale	75
6	Kaká	Brazil	Milan
Real Madrid	58
7	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	Internazionale
Barcelona	50
8	Wayne Rooney	England	Manchester United	35
9	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	Chelsea	33
10	Steven Gerrard	England	Liverpool	32
11	Fernando Torres	Spain	Liverpool	22
12	Cesc Fàbregas	Spain	Arsenal	13
13	Edin Džeko	Bosnia and Herzegovina	VfL Wolfsburg	12
14	Ryan Giggs	Wales	Manchester United	11
15	Thierry Henry	France	Barcelona	9
16	Luís Fabiano	Brazil	Sevilla	8
Nemanja Vidić	Serbia	Manchester United	8
Iker Casillas	Spain	Real Madrid	8
19	Diego Forlán	Uruguay	Atlético Madrid	7
20	Yoann Gourcuff	France	Bordeaux	6
21	Andrey Arshavin	Russia	Arsenal	5
Júlio César	Brazil	Internazionale	5
Frank Lampard	England	Chelsea	5
24	Maicon	Brazil	Internazionale	4
25	Diego	Brazil	Werder Bremen
Juventus	3
26	David Villa	Spain	Valencia	2
John Terry	England	Chelsea	2
28	Franck Ribéry	France	Bayern Munich	1
Yaya Touré	Ivory Coast	Barcelona	1
30	Karim Benzema	France	Lyon
Real Madrid	0

References

"Classement 2009". Groupe Amaury.

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