1979 Ballon d'Or

{{Short description|Annual association football award event in France}}

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| name = 1979 Ballon d'Or

| image = Kevin keegan panini card (cropped).jpg

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| caption = 1979 Ballon d'Or winner Kevin Keegan in 1980

| date = 25 December 1979

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| presenter = France Football

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| website = {{URL|https://www.francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or/|2=francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or}}

| award1_type = Won by

| award1_winner = {{flagicon|ENG}} Kevin Keegan (2nd award)

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| previous = 1978

| main = Ballon d'Or

| next = 1980

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The 1979 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 the English forward Kevin Keegan on 25 December 1979.{{Cite web|date=8 December 2013|title=Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1979 - Kevin Keegan|url=https://www.francefootball.fr/news/1979-kevin-keegan/423416|access-date=6 July 2020|publisher=France Football}} There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.{{Cite web|date=1 May 2005|title=European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1979|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy79.html|access-date=6 July 2020|publisher=RSSSF}}