The 1982 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 Paolo Rossi on 28 December 1982.
Rossi was the third Italian national to win the award after Omar Sívori in 1961 and Gianni Rivera in 1969. Rossi was also the second Juventus player to win the trophy, after Sívori in 1961.
Rankings RankNameClub(s)NationalityPoints 1 Paolo Rossi Juventus 115 2 Alain GiresseFrance Football reports Giresse with 68 points. Bordeaux 64 3 Zbigniew Boniek Juventus 53 4 Karl-Heinz RummeniggeFrance Football reports Rummenigge with 47 points. Bayern Munich 51 5 Bruno Conti Roma 48 6 Rinat Dasayev Spartak Moscow 17 7 Pierre Littbarski 1. FC Köln 10 8 Dino Zoff Juventus 9 9 Michel Platini Juventus 5 10 Bernd Schuster Barcelona 4 11 Giancarlo Antognoni Fiorentina 3 12 Bruno Pezzey Eintracht Frankfurt 2Gaetano Scirea Juventus 2Eric Gerets Standard Liège 2 15 Paul Breitner Bayern Munich 1Torbjörn Nilsson IFK Göteborg 1Walter Schachner Cesena 1Marco Tardelli Juventus 1Marius Trésor Bordeaux 1
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External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page