A survey on the Golden Ball ( French Ballon d'or ) in 1963 was conducted for the eighth time. The voting results were published in the issue 927 France Football on December 17, 1963. The jury consisted of 21 sports journalists from the following football associations included in the UEFA : Austria , England , Belgium , Bulgaria , Hungary , Greece , Denmark , Spain , Italy , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Poland , Portugal , the USSR , Turkey , France , Germany , Czechoslovakia , Switzerland , Sweden and Yugoslavia .
The winner of the vote was the Soviet football player Lev Yashin . He was ahead of Gianni Rivera and Jimmy Greaves .
Voting System
Each of the jury members selected five players, who in his opinion were the best players in Europe. The first place got 5 points, the second - four, the third - three, the fourth - two, and the fifth - one point. Thus, there were 315 points in the draw; the maximum player could get 105 points.
Results
| A place | Player | Club | Places | Glasses | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 places | 2 places | 3 places | 4 places | 5 places | Total | ||||
| one | Lev Yashin | Dynamo (Moscow) | eleven | 3 | one | one | one | 17 | 73 |
| 2 | Gianni Rivera | Milan | five | 3 | 3 | four | one | sixteen | 56 |
| 3 | Jimmy greaves | Tottenham Hotspur | 2 | four | 6 | 3 | 15 | 51 | |
| four | Denis Lowe | Manchester United | 2 | four | 3 | four | 2 | 15 | 45 |
| five | Eusebio | Benfica (Lisbon) | 2 | 2 | 2 | one | 7 | nineteen | |
| 6 | Karl-Heinz Schnellinger | Cologne / Mantova | one | four | five | sixteen | |||
| 7 | Uwe Seeler | Hamburg | one | one | 2 | 9 | |||
| eight | Bobby charlton | Manchester United | one | one | 2 | five | |||
| Giovanni Trapattoni | Milan | one | one | 2 | five | ||||
| Luis Suarez | Inter Milan | 2 | one | 3 | five | ||||
| eleven | Jose Altafini | Milan | one | one | four | ||||
| Paul van Himst | Anderlecht | one | one | 2 | four | ||||
| 12 | Omar Sivori | Juventus | one | one | 3 | ||||
| Florian Albert | Ferencvaros | one | one | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Harry bild | Norrkoping | one | one | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Joseph Masopust | Dukla (Prague) | one | one | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 17 | Jeff Jurion | Anderlecht | one | one | 2 | ||||
| Karoy Sandor | MTK | one | one | 2 | |||||
| Robert Erben | Saint Etienne | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Cesare Maldini | Milan | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 21 | Mario coluna | Benfica (Lisbon) | one | one | one | ||||
| Oke Johansson | Norrkoping | one | one | one | |||||
| Manfred Kaiser | Erzgebirge | one | one | one | |||||
| Metin Oktay | Galatasaray | one | one | one | |||||
| Swatopluk Launched | Dukla (Prague) | one | one | one | |||||