2001 Ballon d'Or

2001 Ballon d'Or winner Michael Owen

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[]

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

References[]

^ 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.

External links[]

France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

[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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