A survey on the Golden Ball ( French Ballon d'or ) in 1966 was conducted for the eleventh time. The voting results were published in 1085 France Football on December 27, 1966. The jury consisted of 22 sports journalists from the following football associations included in UEFA : Austria , England , Belgium , Bulgaria , Hungary , Greece , Denmark , Ireland , Spain , Italy , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Poland , Portugal , the USSR , Turkey , France , Germany , Czechoslovakia , Switzerland , Sweden and Yugoslavia .
The winner of the vote was the Englishman Bobby Charlton . He was just one point ahead of Eusebio . Third place went to Franz Beckenbauer .
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, 330 points were in the draw; the maximum player could get 110 points.
Results
| A place | Player | Club | Places | Glasses | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 places | 2 places | 3 places | 4 places | 5 places | Total | ||||
| one | Bobby charlton | Manchester United | 12 | 3 | one | 3 | 19 | 81 | |
| 2 | Eusebio | Benfica (Lisbon) | 5 | 10 | 5 | twenty | 80 | ||
| 3 | Franz Beckenbauer | Bavaria | 5 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 59 | |
| four | Bobby moore | West Ham United | 2 | 3 | one | 2 | 2 | 10 | 31 |
| 5 | Florian Albert | Ferencvaros | one | one | one | four | 3 | 10 | 23 |
| 6 | Ferenc Bene | Uypest Doge | one | 2 | one | four | 8 | ||
| 7 | Alan Ball | Blackpool / Everton | one | one | 2 | 6 | |||
| Lev Yashin | Dynamo (Moscow) | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||||
| Janos Farkash | Your | 2 | 2 | four | 6 | ||||
| 10 | Jose Torrish | Benfica (Lisbon) | one | one | 5 | ||||
| eleven | Mario corso | Inter Milan | 2 | 2 | four | ||||
| Valery Voronin | Torpedo (Moscow) | one | 2 | 3 | four | ||||
| 13 | Mario coluna | Benfica (Lisbon) | one | one | 3 | ||||
| fourteen | Georgy Asparuhov | Levski | one | one | 2 | ||||
| Gordon Banks | Leicester City | one | one | 2 | |||||
| Jeffrey Hurst | West Ham United | one | one | 2 | |||||
| Sandro Mazzola | Inter Milan | one | one | 2 | |||||
| eighteen | Igor Chislenko | Dynamo (Moscow) | one | one | one | ||||
| Tony dunn | Manchester United | one | one | one | |||||
| Helmut Haller | Bologna | one | one | one | |||||
| Denis Lowe | Manchester United | one | one | one | |||||
| Willy Schulz | Hamburg | one | one | one | |||||
| Paul van Himst | Anderlecht | one | one | one | |||||