2018 Ballon d'Or Results
The Ballon d'Or award is an annual football award for the best international player from the previous year.
Below are the nominees in the final order after voting for the 2018 award. The winner was Luka Modrić. He was the first Croat to win the award, and he won easily over previous winner Cristiano Ronaldo. The 2018 award was the first time since Kaká in 2007 that a player other than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo won, ending a 10-year dominance by those two players. Controversially, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo decided to stay away from the Ballon d'Or ceremony. See the list of all Ballon d'Or winners.
The Kopa Trophy for the world's best young men's player was first awarded in 2018. 2018 was also the first time the women's Ballon d'Or award was presented (called the Ballon d'Or Féminin).
Final order for the men's 2018 Ballon d'Or
| Order | Player | Club | Nationality | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luka Modrić | Real Madrid | Croatia | 753 |
| 2 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid / Juventus | Portugal | 478 |
| 3 | Antoine Griezmann | Atlético Madrid | France | 414 |
| 4 | Kylian Mbappé | Paris Saint-Germain | France | 347 |
| 5 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona | Argentina | 280 |
| 6 | Mohamed Salah | Liverpool | Egypt | 188 |
| 7 | Raphaël Varane | Real Madrid | France | 121 |
| 8 | Eden Hazard | Chelsea | Belgium | 119 |
| 9 | Kevin De Bruyne | Manchester City | Belgium | 29 |
| 10 | Harry Kane | Tottenham Hotspur | England | 25 |
| 11 | N'Golo Kanté | Chelsea | France | 24 |
| 12 | Neymar | Paris Saint-Germain | Brazil | 19 |
| 13 | Luis Suárez | Barcelona | Uruguay | 17 |
| 14 | Thibaut Courtois | Chelsea / Real Madrid | Belgium | 12 |
| 15 | Paul Pogba | Manchester United | France | 9 |
| 16 | Sergio Agüero | Manchester City | Argentina | 7 |
| 17 | Gareth Bale | Real Madrid | Wales | 6 |
| Karim Benzema | Real Madrid | France | 6 | |
| 19 | Roberto Firmino | Liverpool | Brazil | 4 |
| Ivan Rakitić | Barcelona | Croatia | 4 | |
| Sergio Ramos | Real Madrid | Spain | 4 | |
| 22 | Edinson Cavani | Paris Saint-Germain | Uruguay | 3 |
| Sadio Mané | Liverpool | Senegal | 3 | |
| Marcelo | Real Madrid | Brazil | 3 | |
| 25 | Alisson | Roma / Liverpool | Brazil | 2 |
| Mario Mandžukić | Juventus | Croatia | 2 | |
| Jan Oblak | Atlético Madrid | Slovenia | 2 | |
| 28 | Diego Godín | Atlético Madrid | Uruguay | 1 |
| 29 | Isco | Real Madrid | Spain | 0 |
| Hugo Lloris | Tottenham Hotspur | France | 0 |
Related Pages
- Ballon d'Or Home
- 2018 Women's Ballon d'Or
- Men's Ballon d'Or Winner's List
- Football Awards Lists
- List of the FIFA male player of the year and FIFA female player of the year.
- History of the Ballon d'Or
- The Year in Sport: 2018
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