2001 Ballon d'Or

2001 Ballon d'Or
2001 Ballon d'Or winner Michael Owen in 2007
Date18 December 2001
Presented byFrance Football
Highlights
Won byEngland Michael Owen (1st award)
Websitefrancefootball.fr/ballon-d-or
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The 2001 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 Michael Owen on 18 December 2001.[1]

Owen was the fourth English national to win the award after Stanley Matthews (1956), Bobby Charlton (1966) and Kevin Keegan (1978, 1979).

Rankings

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Rank Player Club(s) Nationality Points
1 Michael Owen England Liverpool England 176
2 Raúl Spain Real Madrid Spain 140
3 Oliver Kahn Germany Bayern Munich Germany 114
4 David Beckham England Manchester United England 102
5 Francesco Totti Italy Roma Italy 57
6 Luís Figo Spain Real Madrid Portugal 56
7 Rivaldo Spain Barcelona Brazil 20
8 Andriy Shevchenko Italy Milan Ukraine 18
9 Thierry Henry England Arsenal France 14
Zinedine Zidane Spain Real Madrid France 14
11 Bixente Lizarazu Germany Bayern Munich France 10
12 David Trezeguet Italy Juventus France 7
13 Stefan Effenberg Germany Bayern Munich Germany 6
14 Henrik Larsson Scotland Celtic Sweden 4
Alessandro Nesta Italy Lazio Italy 4
16 Juan Sebastián Verón Italy Lazio
England Manchester United
Argentina 3
Hernán Crespo Italy Lazio Argentina 3
18 Giovane Élber Germany Bayern Munich Brazil 2
Gaizka Mendieta Spain Valencia
Italy Lazio
Spain 2
Roberto Carlos Spain Real Madrid Brazil 2
Damiano Tommasi Italy Roma Italy 2
Sami Hyypiä England Liverpool Finland 2
Emmanuel Olisadebe Greece Panathinaikos Poland 2
Ebbe Sand Germany Schalke 04 Denmark 2
25 Roberto Baggio Italy Brescia Italy 1
Steven Gerrard England Liverpool England 1
Rui Costa Italy Milan Portugal 1
28 Sonny Anderson France Lyon Brazil 0
Fabien Barthez England Manchester United France 0
Gabriel Batistuta Italy Roma Argentina 0
Gianluigi Buffon Italy Parma
Italy Juventus
Italy 0
Cafu Italy Roma Brazil 0
Vincent Candela Italy Roma France 0
Alessandro Del Piero Italy Juventus Italy 0
Marcel Desailly England Chelsea France 0
Rio Ferdinand England Leeds United England 0
Ryan Giggs England Manchester United Wales 0
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink England Chelsea Netherlands 0
Iván Helguera Spain Real Madrid Spain 0
Harry Kewell England Leeds United Australia 0
Patrick Kluivert Spain Barcelona Netherlands 0
Samuel Kuffour Germany Bayern Munich Ghana 0
Hidetoshi Nakata Italy Roma
Italy Parma
Japan 0
Pavel Nedvěd Italy Lazio
Italy Juventus
Czech Republic 0
Pauleta France Bordeaux Portugal 0
Robert Pires England Arsenal France 0
Paul Scholes England Manchester United England 0
Lilian Thuram Italy Parma
Italy Juventus
France 0
Patrick Vieira England Arsenal France 0
Eric Carrière France Nantes France 0

References

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  1. ^ Pierrend, José Luis (26 March 2005). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 2001". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
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