1986 Ballon d'Or

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

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| name = 1986 Ballon d'Or

| image = Ihor Belanov.jpeg

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| caption = 1986 Ballon d'Or winner Igor Belanov in 2012

| date = 30 December 1986

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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 = Ballon d'Or

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| previous = 1985

| main = Ballon d'Or

| next = 1987

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The 1986 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 Soviet forward Igor Belanov on 30 December 1986.{{Cite web |url=http://www.francefootball.fr/news/1986-igor-belanov/423429 |title=Palmarès Ballon d'Or - 1986 - Igor Belanov |publisher=France Football |date=8 December 2013 |access-date=2 April 2015 }} 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 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy86.html |title=European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1986 |publisher=RSSSF |date=26 March 2005 |access-date=2 April 2015}} Belanov became the third Soviet and the second Ukrainian national to win the award after Lev Yashin (1963) and Oleg Blokhin (1975).