BALLON D'OR DATA

Ballon d’Or has been running for almost seven decades, with dozens of winners and hundreds of big names. But who has made it onto the podium the most times?

Rare talent and expert application of it wins a Ballon d’Or. Yet it’s interesting to note that another factor is a prime consideration…

Find out which teams have the most players nominated for the most prestigious individual football award in the world.

Pivotal to any team’s success, goalkeepers and defenders have been acclaimed by Ballon d’Or across eight decades. Yet so often they miss out on the biggest prize to headline-making goal-scorers and creatives.

With this year’s ceremony on the horizon we revisit the most dramatically close and unequivocal Ballon d’Or races on record.

We take a look at the seven footballers who went on to win the ‘Ballon d'Or’ immediately after changing clubs.

We analysed the data to find out how long it took football’s greatest legends to reclaim their throne at the ‘Ballon d'Or’. Find out the answer.

Find out the all-time ranking of the footballers who have been nominated most often for the individual award throughout history.

The Ballon d'Or ceremony is fast approaching, and with it, the questions we all ask ourselves. Among them: what does it take to win the ultimate trophy? Here are all the answers.

When it comes to winning the ‘Ballon d'Or’, football fans often discuss what factors lead to a player being named the world’s best at the end of a season.

We take a look at which teams have provided the most players for the men’s ‘Ballon d'Or’ shortlists since the competition began.

Giants standing 2.00m tall and star players just 1.60m tall have both lifted the trophy at a ‘Ballon d'Or’ ceremony. But is there an ideal height for winning football’s top individual award?

The Kopa Trophy honours the ten finest young talents around. But how many of them subsequently advance to a Ballon d’Or nomination? The answer may be fewer than you think…

Winning the ‘Ballon d'Or’ requires talent, intelligence and leadership. But are these qualities alone enough to make great managers? We’ve brought together the award winners who went on to pursue careers as managers to find out who built the greatest legacies on the touchline.

We analyse historical data to determine whether a goalkeeper can realistically hope to win the ‘Ballon d'Or’. What are the odds? Is it a pipe dream or a reality?

Only one footballer has ever won the ‘Ballon d'Or’ at the age of just 21, and he currently holds the record as the youngest winner in the award’s history.

We analysed the results since 1956 to find out whether World Cup glory is enough to make a player the favourite to win the ‘Ballon d'Or’ as the world’s best player.

The Ballon d'Or ceremony is fast approaching, and with it, the questions we're all asking. Among them: has a player ever been crowned without winning a team title? We dug through the archives and the data to find the answer.

Is winning football's most coveted individual award on the eve of a World Cup a blessing or an omen of failure? To answer this puzzle, we dive into the historical archives of the Ballon d'Or and track all the data since its creation in 1956. Discover how football's greatest award has intertwined with the fate of World Cups over seven decades.

All manner of records tumbled in the Americas this summer, with many of them broken by Ballon d’Or winners and nominees.