2016 Ballon D'or
The 2016 Ballon d'Or was an award given to the best-performing football player around the world in 2016.
| 2016 Ballon d'Or | |
|---|---|
 2016 Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo | |
| Date | 12 December 2016 |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Presented by | France Football |
| Highlights | |
| Won by |  Cristiano Ronaldo (4th award) |
| Website | www |
In September 2016, France Football announced that their partnership with FIFA for the FIFA Ballon d'Or award had come to an end and that they would revive the Ballon d'Or award, treating the 2016 edition as the 61st award.
France Football announced that they would publish a shortlist of 30 players across six announcements with two hour intervals on 24 October 2016. On 12 December 2016, Cristiano Ronaldo won the award by a record margin of 429 points ahead of second placed Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann, who came third.
There were 173 voters. All were journalists, in a change from previous years, and each voter was from a different country. Each voter voted for three players who received 5 points, 3 points and one point respectively.
Ronaldo scored 745 points out of a maximum possible of 865. It was his fourth Ballon d'Or, the most of any European player in the history of the award.
Rankings
Sources:
| Rank | Player | Club(s) | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cristiano Ronaldo |  Real Madrid | 745 |
| 2 |  Lionel Messi | Barcelona | 316 |
| 3 |  Antoine Griezmann | Atlético Madrid | 198 |
| 4 |  Luis Suárez | Barcelona | 91 |
| 5 |  Neymar | Barcelona | 68 |
| 6 |  Gareth Bale | Real Madrid | 60 |
| 7 |  Riyad Mahrez |  Leicester City | 20 |
| 8 | Jamie Vardy | Leicester City | 11 |
| 9 |  Gianluigi Buffon | Juventus | 8 |
| Pepe | Real Madrid | 8 | |
| 11 |  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang |  Borussia Dortmund | 7 |
| 12 | Rui Patrício | Sporting CP | 6 |
| 13 |  Zlatan Ibrahimović | Paris Saint-Germain Manchester United | 5 |
| 14 | Paul Pogba | Juventus Manchester United | 4 |
 Arturo Vidal | Bayern Munich | 4 | |
| 16 |  Robert Lewandowski | Bayern Munich | 3 |
| 17 | Toni Kroos | Real Madrid | 1 |
 Luka Modrić | Real Madrid | 1 | |
| Dimitri Payet | West Ham United | 1 | |
| 20 | Sergio Agüero | Manchester City | 0 |
 Kevin De Bruyne | Manchester City | 0 | |
| Paulo Dybala | Juventus | 0 | |
| Diego Godín | Atlético Madrid | 0 | |
| Gonzalo Higuaín | Napoli Juventus | 0 | |
| Andrés Iniesta | Barcelona | 0 | |
| Koke | Atlético Madrid | 0 | |
| Hugo Lloris | Tottenham Hotspur | 0 | |
| Thomas Müller | Bayern Munich | 0 | |
| Manuel Neuer | Bayern Munich | 0 | |
| Sergio Ramos | Real Madrid | 0 |
References
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