1998 Ballon d'Or

1998 Ballon d'Or
1998 Ballon d'Or winner Zinedine Zidane in 2008
Date	22 December 1998
Presented by	France Football
Website	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1998 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 Zinedine Zidane on 22 December 1998.

Rankings

Rank	Player	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Zinedine Zidane	Juventus	France	244
2	Davor Šuker	Real Madrid	Croatia	68
3	Ronaldo	Internazionale	Brazil	66
4	Michael Owen	Liverpool	England	51
5	Rivaldo	Barcelona	Brazil	45
6	Gabriel Batistuta	Fiorentina	Argentina	43
7	Lilian Thuram	Parma	France	36
8	Edgar Davids	Juventus	Netherlands	28
	Dennis Bergkamp	Arsenal	Netherlands	28
10	Marcel Desailly	Chelsea	France	19
11	Frank de Boer	Ajax	Netherlands	17
12	Emmanuel Petit	Arsenal	France	16
13	Roberto Carlos	Real Madrid	Brazil	13
14	Laurent Blanc	Marseille	France	11
	Fabien Barthez	Monaco	France	11
16	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	Italy	10
	Predrag Mijatović	Real Madrid	Yugoslavia	10
18	Didier Deschamps	Juventus	France	9
	Oliver Bierhoff	Milan	Germany	9
20	Michael Laudrup	Ajax	Denmark	6
21	Ronald de Boer	Ajax	Netherlands	4
	Raúl	Real Madrid	Spain	4
23	Brian Laudrup	Chelsea	Denmark	3
	Clarence Seedorf	Real Madrid	Netherlands	3
	Marc Overmars	Arsenal	Netherlands	3
26	Christian Vieri	Lazio	Italy	2
	Fernando Hierro	Real Madrid	Spain	2
28	David Beckham	Manchester United	England	1
	Luis Enrique	Barcelona	Spain	1
	Bixente Lizarazu	Bayern Munich	France	1
	Nikos Machlas	Vitesse	Greece	1

Additionally, nineteen players were nominated but received no votes: Tony Adams, Roberto Baggio, Zvonimir Boban, Fabio Cannavaro, Denílson, Tore André Flo, Adrian Ilie, Filippo Inzaghi, Robert Jarni, Hidetoshi Nakata, Pavel Nedvěd, Sunday Oliseh, Ariel Ortega, Gianluca Pagliuca, Marcelo Salas, David Seaman, Andriy Shevchenko, Juan Sebastián Verón and Iván Zamorano.

External links

• France Football Official Ballon d'Or page