1985 Ballon d'Or
{{Short description|Annual association football award event in France}}
{{Infobox award
| name = 1985 Ballon d'Or
| image = Platini vs canada (cropped).jpg
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption = 1985 Ballon d'Or winner Michel Platini in 1986
| date = 24 December 1985
| location =
| presenter = France Football
| host =
| website = {{URL|https://www.francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or/|2=francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or}}
| award1_type = Won by
| award1_winner = {{flagicon|FRA}} Michel Platini (3rd award)
| award2_type =
| award2_winner =
| award3_type =
| award3_winner =
| award4_type =
| award4_winner =
| award5_type =
| award5_winner =
| previous = 1984
| main = Ballon d'Or
| next = 1986
}}
The 1985 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 Michel Platini on 24 December 1985. {{Cite web|date=8 December 2013|title=Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1985 - Michel Platini|url=https://www.francefootball.fr/news/1985-michel-platini/423427|access-date=9 July 2020|publisher=France Football}}{{Cite web|date=1 May 2005|title=European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1985|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy85.html|access-date=9 July 2020|publisher=RSSSF}}
Rankings
| class="wikitable"
!Rank !Name !Club(s) !Nationality !Points |
| style="background-color: #FFF68F; font-weight: bold;"
|1 |{{flagicon|ITA}} Juventus |{{flag|France}} |127 |
| 2
|{{flagicon|ITA}} Hellas Verona |{{flag|Denmark}} |71 |
| 3
|{{flagicon|ESP}} Barcelona |{{flag|West Germany}} |46 |
| 4
|{{flagicon|ITA}} Juventus |{{flag|Denmark}} |14 |
| 5
|{{flagicon|ITA}} Internazionale |{{flag|West Germany}} |13 |
| 6
|{{flagicon|ITA}} Roma |{{flag|Poland}} |12 |
| 7
|{{flagicon|URS}} Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk |{{flag|Soviet Union}} |10 |
| 8
|{{flagicon|ITA}} Hellas Verona |{{flag|West Germany}} |9 |
| rowspan="2" |9
|{{flagicon|ENG}} Manchester United |{{flag|England}} | rowspan="2" |8 |
| Rinat Dasayev
|{{flagicon|URS}} Spartak Moscow |{{flag|Soviet Union}} |
| 11
|{{flagicon|FRG}} Werder Bremen |{{flag|West Germany}} |7 |
| rowspan="2" |12
|{{flagicon|FRA}} Paris Saint-Germain |{{flag|France}} | rowspan="2" |6 |
| Søren Lerby
|{{flagicon|FRG}} Bayern Munich |{{flag|Denmark}} |
| rowspan="2" |14
|{{flagicon|ESP}} Real Madrid |{{flag|Spain}} | rowspan="2" |5 |
| Ian Rush
|{{flagicon|ENG}} Liverpool |{{flag|Wales}} |
| rowspan="2" |16
|{{flagicon|ESP}} Real Madrid |{{flag|Spain}} | rowspan="2" |4 |
| Fernando Gomes
|{{flagicon|POR}} Porto |{{flag|Portugal}} |
| rowspan="3" |18
|{{flagicon|FRG}} 1. FC Köln |{{flag|West Germany}} | rowspan="3" |3 |
| John Sivebæk
|{{flagicon|DEN}} Vejle |{{flag|Denmark}} |
| Neville Southall
|{{flagicon|ENG}} Everton |{{flag|Wales}} |
| rowspan="8" |21
|{{flagicon|HUN}} Budapest Honvéd |{{flag|Hungary}} | rowspan="8" |2 |
| Alain Giresse
|{{flagicon|FRA}} Bordeaux |{{flag|France}} |
| Vahid Halilhodžić
|{{flagicon|FRA}} Nantes |{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |
| Tibor Nyilasi
|{{flagicon|AUT}} Austria Wien |{{flag|Hungary}} |
| Peter Reid
|{{flagicon|ENG}} Everton |{{flag|England}} |
| Peter Shilton
|{{flagicon|ENG}} Southampton |{{flag|England}} |
| Graeme Souness
|{{flagicon|ITA}} Sampdoria |{{flag|Scotland}} |
| Pat Jennings
|{{flagicon|ENG}} Tottenham Hotspur |{{flag|Northern Ireland}} |
| rowspan="10" |29
|{{flagicon|ESP}} Barcelona |{{flag|Scotland}} | rowspan="10" |1 |
| Jan Ceulemans
|{{flagicon|BEL}} Club Brugge |{{flag|Belgium}} |
| Anatoliy Demyanenko
|{{flagicon|URS}} Dinamo Kyiv |{{flag|Soviet Union}} |
| Georgi Dimitrov
|{{flagicon|BUL}} CSKA Sofia |{{flag|Bulgaria}} |
| Gheorghe Hagi
|{{flagicon|ROU|1965}} Sportul Studențesc |{{flag|Romania|1965}} |
| Mark Hateley
|{{flagicon|ITA}} Milan |{{flag|England}} |
| Herbert Prohaska
|{{flagicon|AUT}} Austria Wien |{{flag|Austria}} |
| Gary Stevens
|{{flagicon|ENG}} Everton |{{flag|England}} |
| Andreas Thom
|{{flagicon|GDR}} Dynamo Berlin |{{flag|East Germany}} |
| Ladislav Vízek
|{{flagicon|CZE}} Dukla Prague |{{flag|Czechoslovakia}} |
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- [https://www.francefootball.fr/news/1985-michel-platini/423427 France Football Official Ballon d'Or page]
{{Ballon d'Or recipients}}