1988 Ballon d'Or

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

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| name = 1988 Ballon d'Or

| image = Gullit + Van Basten 1987 (cropped) (cropped).jpg

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| caption = 1988 Ballon d'Or winner Marco van Basten

| date = 27 December 1988

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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 = 1987

| main = Ballon d'Or

| next = 1989

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The 1988 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 Marco van Basten on 27 December 1988.{{cite news |url= https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy88.html |title= European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1988|work= Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation |date= 26 March 2005}} There were 27 voters, from Albania, 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. Van Basten was the third Dutch national to win the award after Johan Cruyff (1971, 1973, 1974) and Ruud Gullit (1987).