The 2016 Ballon d'Or (), was an award given to the best-performing football player around the world in 2016.
In September 2016, France Football announced that their partnership with FIFA for the FIFA Ballon d'Or award had come to an end and that they would revive the Ballon d'Or award, treating the 2016 edition as the 61st award.
France Football announced that they would publish a shortlist of 30 players across six announcements with two hour intervals on 24 October 2016. On 12 December 2016, Cristiano Ronaldo won the award by a record margin of 429 points ahead of second placed Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann, who came third.
There were 173 voters. All were journalists, in a change from previous years, and each voter was from a different country. Each voter voted for three players who received 5 points, 3 points and one point respectively.
Ronaldo scored 745 points out of a maximum possible of 865. It was his fourth Ballon d'Or, the most of any European player in the history of the award.
Rankings Sources:
RankPlayerClub(s)Points1 Real Madrid7452 Barcelona3163 Atlético Madrid1984 Barcelona915 Neymar Barcelona686 Real Madrid607 Leicester City208 Leicester City119 Juventus8 Pepe Real Madrid811 Borussia Dortmund712 Sporting CP613 Paris Saint-Germain Manchester United514 Juventus Manchester United4 Bayern Munich416 Bayern Munich317 Real Madrid1 Real Madrid1 West Ham United120 Manchester City0 Manchester City 0 Juventus 0 Atlético Madrid0 Napoli Juventus0 Barcelona0 Koke Atlético Madrid0 Tottenham Hotspur0 Bayern Munich0 Bayern Munich 0 Real Madrid0
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