In 1967 the Ballon d'Or was won by Florian Albert. He guided Ferencváros to the Hungarian championship and to the final of the European Fairs Cup that year, after having won that trophy two years earlier. Skilled and elegant, Albert was arguably the best Hungarian forward of the post-Puskas era.
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| World Cup 1966: Florian Albert in action for Hungary |
Albert being voted European Footballer of the Year was the outcome of a ballot held among a panel of football journalists organised by the magazine France Football, with one vote coming from each of the following 24 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.
The result was announced in the edition dated December 26th, 1967.
| Name | Country | Club | Pts. |
|
1. |
Florian Albert | Hungary | Ferencváros | 86 |
2. |
Bobby Charlton | England | Manchester United | 40 |
3. |
Jimmy Johnstone | Scotland | Celtic | 39 |
4. |
Franz Beckenbauer | West Germany | Bayern Munich | 37 |
5. |
Eusebio | Portugal | Benfica | 26 |
6. |
Tommy Gemmel | Scotland | Celtic | 21 |
7. |
George Best | Northern Ireland | Manchester United | 18 |
| Gerd Müller [1] | West Germany | Bayern Munich | 18 |
|
9. |
Igor Chislenko | Soviet Union | Torpedo Moscow | 9 |
10. |
Alessandro Mazzola | Italy | Inter Milan | 8 |
| Janos Farkas | Hungary | Vasas Budapest | 8 |
|
| José Martínez Sánchez | Spain | Real Madrid | 8 |
|
13. |
Eduard Streltsov | Soviet Union | Torpedo Moscow | 6 |
| Luigi Riva | Italy | Cagliari | 6 |
|
15. |
Anatoli Bishovets | Soviet Union | Dinamo Kiev | 5 |
16. |
Alan Ball | England | Everton | 4 |
| Helmut Haller | West Germany | Bologna | 4 |
|
| Gianni Rivera | Italy | AC Milan | 4 |
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| Wlodzimierz Lubanski | Poland | Gornik Zabrze | 4 |
|
20. |
Zvezdan Cebinac | Yugoslavia | 1. FC Nuremberg | 3 |
| Giacinto Facchetti | Italy | Inter Milan | 3 |
|
| Wolfgang Overath | West Germany | 1. FC Köln | 3 |
|
| Geoff Hurst | England | West Ham United | 3 |
|
| Paul van Himst | Belgium | Anderlecht | 3 |
|
25. |
Jimmy Greaves [2] | England | Tottenham Hotspur | 2 |
| Nikola Kotkov | Bulgaria | Lokomotiv Sofia | 2 |
|
27. |
José Augusto | Portugal | Benfica | 1 |
| Johnny Bjerregaard | Denmark | Rapid Vienna | 1 |
|
| Nestor Combin | France | Torino | 1 |
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| Johan Cruyff | Holland | Ajax | 1 |
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| Pedro De Felipe | Spain | Real Madrid | 1 |
|
| Ove Kindvall | Sweden | Feyenoord | 1 |
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| Louis Pilot | Luxembourg | Anderlecht | 1 |
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| Zygfryd Szoltysik | Poland | Gornik Zabrze | 1 |
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1966 • European Footballer of the Year • 1968
| #01 | France Football mistakenly reported Gerd Müller with 19 points. |
| #02 | France Football erroneously listed Valery Voronin with 2 points; however no jury voted for him. Jimmy Greaves was not listed, but received 2 points from the Yugoslav jury. |