1963 Ballon d'Or

1963 Ballon d'Or
1963 Ballon d'Or winner Lev Yashin in 1965
Date	17 December 1963
Location	Paris, France
Presented by	France Football
Highlights
Won by	Lev Yashin (1st award)
Website	francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

The 1963 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 Lev Yashin on 17 December 1963.^[1] He was the first, and as of 2025, the only goalkeeper to win this award. He also became the first Soviet and Russian national to win the award.^[2][3]

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Nationality	Points
1	Lev Yashin	Dynamo Moscow	Soviet Union	73
2	Gianni Rivera	Milan	Italy	55
3	Jimmy Greaves	Tottenham Hotspur	England	50
4	Denis Law	Manchester United	Scotland	45
5	Eusébio	Benfica	Portugal	19
6	Karl-Heinz Schnellinger	1. FC Köln Mantova	West Germany	16
7	Uwe Seeler	Hamburger SV	West Germany	9
8	Bobby Charlton	Manchester United	England	5
	Luis Suárez	Inter Milan	Spain
	Giovanni Trapattoni	Milan	Italy
11	José Altafini	Milan	Brazil	4
	Paul Van Himst	Anderlecht	Belgium
13	Flórián Albert	Ferencváros	Hungary	3
	Harry Bild	IFK Norrköping	Sweden
	Josef Masopust	Dukla Prague	Czechoslovakia
	Omar Sívori	Juventus	Argentina
17	Robert Herbin	Saint-Étienne	France	2
	Jef Jurion	Anderlecht	Belgium
	Cesare Maldini	Milan	Italy
	Károly Sándor	MTK Budapest	Hungary
21	Mário Coluna	Benfica	Portugal	1
	Ake Johansson	IFK Norrköping	Sweden
	Manfred Kaiser	Wismut Aue	East Germany
	Metin Oktay	Galatasaray	Turkey
	Svatopluk Pluskal	Dukla Prague	Czechoslovakia