A survey on the Golden Ball ( French Ballon d'or ) in 1986 was conducted for the thirty-first time. The voting results were published in the issue 2125 France Football on December 30, 1986. The jury consisted of 26 sports journalists from the following football associations included in the UEFA : Austria , England , Belgium , Bulgaria , Hungary , East Germany , Greece , Denmark , Ireland , Spain , Italy , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , USSR , Turkey , Finland , France , Germany , Czechoslovakia , Switzerland , Sweden and Yugoslavia .
The winner of the vote was the Soviet football player Igor Belanov . He was ahead of the poll Gary Lineker and Emilio Butrageno .
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 390 points in the draw; the maximum player could get 130 points.
Results
| A place | Player | Club | Places | Glasses | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 places | 2 places | 3 places | 4 places | 5 places | Total | ||||
| one | Igor Belanov | Dynamo (Kiev) | eight | 7 | four | 2 | 21 | 84 | |
| 2 | Gary Lineker | Everton / Barcelona | 6 | 3 | four | 3 | 2 | 18 | 62 |
| 3 | Emilio Butrageno | RealMadrid | 3 | five | four | four | four | 20 | 59 |
| four | Preben Elkjaer-Larsen | Hellas Verona | 2 | 2 | one | 2 | 7 | 22 | |
| Manuel Amoros | Monaco | one | 2 | one | 2 | 2 | eight | 22 | |
| 6 | Alexander Zavarov | Dynamo (Kiev) | 2 | one | 2 | five | 20 | ||
| Ian Rush | Liverpool | 6 | one | 7 | 20 | ||||
| eight | Helmut Dukadam | Steaua | 2 | 2 | ten | ||||
| Marco van Bastin | Ajax (Amsterdam) | one | 2 | 3 | 6 | ten | |||
| ten | Alessandro Altobelli | Inter Milan | one | 3 | four | 9 | |||
| eleven | Michel Platini | Juventus | one | 2 | 3 | eight | |||
| Jean-Marie Pfaff | Bavaria | one | 2 | one | four | eight | |||
| 13 | Jan Coulemans | Bruges | one | 2 | 3 | 7 | |||
| SΓΈren Lerby | Bavaria / Monaco | one | one | 2 | 7 | ||||
| 15 | Morten Olsen | Anderlecht / Koln | one | 2 | 3 | 6 | |||
| sixteen | Rinat Dasaev | Spartak Moscow) | one | one | five | ||||
| 17 | Luis Fernandez | Paris Saint-Germain / Racing (Paris) | one | one | four | ||||
| Paulo futre | Porto | one | one | four | |||||
| Harald Schumacher | Koln | one | one | four | |||||
| Ruud Gullit | PSV Eindhoven | one | 2 | 3 | four | ||||
| 21 | Kenny Dalglish | Liverpool | one | one | 3 | ||||
| Jean Teagan | Bordeaux | one | one | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Pavel Yakovenko | Dynamo (Kiev) | one | one | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 24 | Karl-Heinz FΓΆrster | Stuttgart / Olympic Marseille | one | one | 2 | ||||
| Lothar Matteus | Bavaria | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 26 | Michael Laudrup | Juventus | one | one | one | ||||
| Rudy Feller | Werder | one | one | one | |||||