The 1975 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 the Soviet forward Oleg Blokhin on 30 December 1975. There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Blokhin became the second Soviet (and the first Ukrainian) footballer who won the trophy after Lev Yashin (1963).
Rankings RankNameClub(s)NationalityPoints 1 Oleg Blokhin Dynamo Kyiv 122 2 Franz Beckenbauer Bayern Munich 42 3 Johan Cruyff Barcelona 27 4 Berti Vogts Borussia Mönchengladbach 25 5 Sepp Maier Bayern Munich 20 6 Ruud Geels Ajax 18 7 Jupp Heynckes Borussia Mönchengladbach 17 8 Paul Breitner Real Madrid 14 9 Colin Todd Derby County 12 10 Dudu Georgescu Dinamo București 11 11 Peter Lorimer Leeds United 9 Branko Oblak Schalke 04 Pirri Real Madrid 14 Ralf Edström PSV Eindhoven 6 Günter Netzer Real Madrid Dino Zoff Juventus 17 Hristo Bonev Lokomotiv Plovdiv 4 Josip Katalinski Nice Grzegorz Lato Stal Mielec Gerd Müller Bayern Munich Ivo Viktor Dukla Prague 22 Ján Pivarník Slovan Bratislava 3 23 Leonid Buryak Dynamo Kyiv 2 Jürgen Croy Sachsenring Zwickau Johan Neeskens Barcelona Jean-Marc Guillou Nice 27 João Alves Boavista 1 Dragan Džajić Bastia Giacinto Facchetti Internazionale Don Givens Queens Park Rangers Pat Jennings Tottenham Hotspur Allan Simonsen Borussia Mönchengladbach
References
External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page