Ballon d'Or 2017 Cristiano Ronaldo won fifth award
Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo won the Ballon d'Or award for the fifth time - and the second year in a row.
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Portugal national team.
Lionel Messi was ranked second and Neymar was ranked third
The Ballon d'Or is an annual football award presented by France Football. It has been awarded since 1956, although between 2010 and 2015, an agreement was made with FIFA and the award was temporarily merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year, and known as the FIFA Ballon d'Or, but the partnership was ended in 2016 and the award been reversed back to Ballon d'Or while FIFA also renamed its traditional award.
Conceived by sports writer Gabriel Hanot, the Ballon d'Or award honours the male player deemed to have performed the best over the previous year, based on voting by football journalists. Originally, only European players were in contention for the Ballon d'Or: in 1995 the award was expanded to include all players at European clubs and in 2007 to all players from around the world
The 2017 Ballon d'Or is an award given to the best-performing football player around the world in 2017.
Date: 7 December 2017
Winner: Cristiano Ronaldo
Location: Paris, France
Host: David Ginola
Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo won the Ballon d'Or award for the fifth time - and the second year in a row.
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Portugal national team.
Lionel Messi was ranked second and Neymar was ranked third
The Ballon d'Or is an annual football award presented by France Football. It has been awarded since 1956, although between 2010 and 2015, an agreement was made with FIFA and the award was temporarily merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year, and known as the FIFA Ballon d'Or, but the partnership was ended in 2016 and the award been reversed back to Ballon d'Or while FIFA also renamed its traditional award.
Conceived by sports writer Gabriel Hanot, the Ballon d'Or award honours the male player deemed to have performed the best over the previous year, based on voting by football journalists. Originally, only European players were in contention for the Ballon d'Or: in 1995 the award was expanded to include all players at European clubs and in 2007 to all players from around the world
The 2017 Ballon d'Or is an award given to the best-performing football player around the world in 2017.
Date: 7 December 2017
Winner: Cristiano Ronaldo
Location: Paris, France
Host: David Ginola
