1994 Ballon d'Or

1994 Ballon d'Or
1994 Ballon d'Or
	1994 Ballon d'Or winner Hristo Stoichkov in 2011
Date	20 December 1994
Presented by	France Football
Website	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1994 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 Hristo Stoichkov on 20 December 1994.^[1]

Stoichkov was the first Bulgarian national to win the award. He was the third Barcelona player to win the trophy after Luis Suárez (1960), and Johan Cruyff (1973, 1974).^[2]

Rankings

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Hristo Stoichkov	Barcelona	Bulgaria	210
2	Roberto Baggio	Juventus	Italy	136
3	Paolo Maldini	Milan	Italy	109
4	Gheorghe Hagi	Barcelona	Romania	68
4	Tomas Brolin	Parma	Sweden	68
6	Jürgen Klinsmann	Tottenham Hotspur	Germany	43
7	Thomas Ravelli	IFK Göteborg	Sweden	21
8	Jari Litmanen	Ajax	Finland	12
9	Marcel Desailly	Milan	France	8
9	Dejan Savićević	Milan	FR Yugoslavia	8
11	Franco Baresi	Milan	Italy	7
11	Michel Preud'homme	Benfica	Belgium	7
13	Michael Laudrup	Real Madrid	Denmark	4
	Yordan Letchkov	Hamburger SV	Bulgaria	4
	Eric Cantona	Manchester United	France	4
16	Krasimir Balakov^{[notes 1]}	Sporting CP	Bulgaria	3
	José Luis Caminero	Atlético Madrid	Spain	3
	Jean-Pierre Papin	Bayern Munich	France	3
	Giuseppe Signori	Lazio	Italy	3
	Lothar Matthäus	Bayern Munich	Germany	3
21	Philippe Albert	Newcastle United	Belgium	2
	Otto Konrad	Austria Salzburg	Austria	2
	Ciriaco Sforza	Kaiserslautern	Switzerland	2
24	Kennet Andersson	Caen	Sweden	1
	Zvonimir Boban	Milan	Croatia	1
	Martin Dahlin	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Sweden	1
	Pep Guardiola	Barcelona	Spain	1
	Andreas Möller	Borussia Dortmund	Germany	1

^ France Football reports Balakov with 4 points.

Team of the Year

Apparently there was also a European Team of the Year chosen at the Ballon d'Or presentation. The team reported by El País was as follows:^[3]


Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Thomas Ravelli	Marcel Desailly Paolo Maldini Philippe Albert	Tomas Brolin Jari Litmanen Yordan Letchkov Gheorghe Hagi Roberto Baggio	Jürgen Klinsmann Hristo Stoichkov

References

^ Pierrend, José Luis (7 April 2005). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1994". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
^ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF. 18 December 2008. Archived from the original on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
^ Carbonell, Rafael (1994-12-19). "París corona a Stoichkov como rey de Europa". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2022-07-12.

External links

France Football Official Ballon d'Or page

[3] France Football reports Balakov with 4 points.

[1] Pierrend, José Luis (7 April 2005). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 1994". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2008.

[2] "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF. 18 December 2008. Archived from the original on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2008.

[4] Carbonell, Rafael (1994-12-19). "París corona a Stoichkov como rey de Europa". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2022-07-12.

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