The 1988 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 Marco van Basten on 27 December 1988. There were 27 voters, from Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Van Basten was the third Dutch national to win the award after Johan Cruyff (1971, 1973, 1974) and Ruud Gullit (1987).
Rankings RankNameClub(s)NationalityPoints 1 Marco van Basten Milan 129 2 Ruud Gullit Milan 88 3 Frank Rijkaard Milan 45 4 Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko Dynamo Kyiv 41 5 Ronald Koeman PSV Eindhoven 39 6 Lothar Matthäus Internazionale 10 7 Gianluca Vialli Sampdoria 7 8 Franco Baresi Milan 5 Jürgen Klinsmann VfB Stuttgart 5 Oleksandr Zavarov Juventus 5 11 Tanju Çolak Galatasaray 4Oleh Kuznetsov Dynamo Kyiv 4 13 Rinat Dasayev Sevilla 3 Anatoliy Demyanenko Dynamo Kyiv 3 Glenn Hysén Fiorentina 3 Míchel Real Madrid 3 17 Flemming Povlsen 1. FC Köln 2 Michel Preud'homme Mechelen 2 Walter Zenga Internazionale 2 20 Gheorghe Hagi Steaua București 1 Roberto Mancini Sampdoria 1 Dejan Savićević Red Star Belgrade 1 Neville Southall Everton 1 Dragan Stojković Red Star Belgrade 1
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