This Award was first introduced in 1956. Top soccer players from the previous year receive the Ballon d’Or award each year. Lionel Messi has won this 7-time Award. The recent Award was won by Karim Benzema in 2022.
Cristiano Ronaldo has won this Award 5 times. The 30 players for the 2023 Ballon d’Or Award winners were revealed in September. Here is the complete list of footballers who won the Ballon d’Or Award from 1956 to 2023.
List of Ballon d’Or Winners
| Year | Player | Club |
| 2023 | TBC | TBC |
| 2022 | Karim Benzema | Real Madrid |
| 2021 | Lionel Messi | Paris Saint-Germain F.C. |
| 2020 | Not Awarded | – |
| 2019 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona |
| 2018 | Luka Modric | Real Madrid |
| 2017 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid |
| 2016 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid |
| 2015 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona |
| 2014 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid |
| 2013 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid |
| 2012 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona |
| 2011 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona |
| 2010 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona |
| 2009 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona |
| 2008 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Manchester United |
| 2007 | Kaká | Milan |
| 2006 | Fabio Cannavaro | Real Madrid |
| 2005 | Ronaldinho | Barcelona |
| 2004 | Andriy Shevchenko | Milan |
| 2003 | Pavel Nedvěd | Juventus |
| 2002 | Ronaldo | Real Madrid |
| 2001 | Michael Owen | Liverpool |
| 2000 | Luís Figo | Real Madrid |
| 1999 | Rivaldo | Barcelona |
| 1998 | Zinedine Zidane | Juventus |
| 1997 | Ronaldo | Internazionale |
| 1996 | Matthias Sammer | Borussia Dortmund |
| 1995 | George Weah | Milan |
| 1994 | Hristo Stoichkov | Barcelona |
| 1993 | Roberto Baggio | Juventus |
| 1992 | Marco van Basten | Milan |
| 1991 | Jean-Pierre Papin | Marseille |
| 1990 | Lothar Matthäus | Internazionale |
| 1989 | Marco van Basten | Milan |
| 1988 | Marco van Basten | Milan |
| 1987 | Ruud Gullit | Milan |
| 1986 | Igor Belanov | Dynamo Kyiv |
| 1985 | Michel Platini | Juventus |
| 1984 | Michel Platini | Juventus |
| 1983 | Michel Platini | Juventus |
| 1982 | Paolo Rossi | Juventus |
| 1981 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | Bayern Munich |
| 1980 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | Bayern Munich |
| 1979 | Kevin Keegan | Hamburg |
| 1978 | Kevin Keegan | Hamburg |
| 1977 | Allan Simonsen | Borussia M”nchengladbach |
| 1976 | Franz Beckenbauer | Bayern Munich |
| 1975 | Oleg Blokhin | Dynamo Kyiv |
| 1974 | Johan Cruyff | Barcelona |
| 1973 | Johan Cruyff | Barcelona |
| 1972 | Franz Beckenbauer | Bayern Munich |
| 1971 | Johan Cruyff | Ajax |
| 1970 | Gerd Müller | Bayern Munich |
| 1969 | Gianni Rivera | Milan |
| 1968 | George Best | Manchester United |
| 1967 | Flórián Albert | Ferencv rosi TC |
| 1966 | Bobby Charlton | Manchester United |
| 1965 | Eusébio | Benfica |
| 1964 | Denis Law | Manchester United |
| 1963 | Lev Yashin | Dynamo Moscow |
| 1962 | Josef Masopust | Dukla Prague |
| 1961 | Omar Sívori | Juventus |
| 1960 | Luis Suárez | Barcelona |
| 1959 | Alfredo Di Stéfano | Real Madrid |
| 1958 | Raymond Kopa | Real Madrid |
| 1957 | Alfredo Di Stéfano | Real Madrid |
| 1956 | Stanley Matthews | Blackpool |
