Guldbollen (Golden Ball) is a Swedish football award given by Aftonbladet and the Swedish Football Association to the best male Swedish footballer each year.
Awarded for | Association football award |
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Country | Sweden |
Presented by | Swedish Football Association, Aftonbladet |
History | |
Most wins | Zlatan Ibrahimović (12) |
Most recent | Dejan Kulusevski (2023) |
The award was created by Bengt Liljedahl and between 1946 and 1965 it was awarded in cooperation with Stockholms-Tidningen.
The first Guldbollen award was given in 1946 to Gunnar Gren. In 1973, Bo Larsson of Malmö FF became the first player to win the award for a second time, having previously won it in 1965. Zlatan Ibrahimović is the only player to win the award more than twice, winning it twelve times between 2005 and 2020.
The female equivalent of the award, Diamantbollen, was established in 1990. Both Guldbollen and Diamantbollen are now awarded at the Fotbollsgalan.
Source:
Club | Wins |
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IFK Norrköping | 11 |
Malmö FF | 8 |
Paris Saint-Germain | 5 |
Barcelona | 4 |
IFK Göteborg | 4 |
Milan | 4 |
Arsenal | 3 |
Helsingborgs IF | 3 |
Internazionale | 3 |
1. FC Kaiserslautern | 3 |
Manchester United | 3 |
Östers IF | 3 |
Borussia Mönchengladbach | 2 |
Celtic | 2 |
Degerfors IF | 2 |
Djurgårdens IF | 2 |
Parma | 2 |
PSV Eindhoven | 2 |
Tottenham Hotspur | 2 |
Åtvidabergs FF | 2 |
AIK | 1 |
Ajax | 1 |
Anderlecht | 1 |
Aston Villa | 1 |
Atalanta | 1 |
Bayern Munich | 1 |
Benfica | 1 |
IK Brage | 1 |
Coventry City | 1 |
Fiorentina | 1 |
Hammarby IF | 1 |
Juventus | 1 |
RB Leipzig | 1 |
VfB Stuttgart | 1 |
Sunderland | 1 |
Valencia | 1 |
Young Boys | 1 |
Örebro SK | 1 |
Örgryte IS | 1 |
Krasnodar | 1 |
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