Real Madrid and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has won the 2016 Ballon d’Or, crowning him the world’s best player for the fourth time.


The 31-year-old, won the Champions League with his club and the European Championship with his country in the best summer of his career and he takes the prestigious prize away from Lionel Messi, his great rival, whose Ballon d’Or win last year was his fifth in total.

France Football only announced the results up until 6th place before announcing the winner, with spots 5-2 coming around 9.30pm (UK time

Winning his fourth award takes Ronaldo clear of Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff and Marco van Basten, who all won the prize three times, and clear in second in the all-time list. Ronaldo’s first triumph came in 2008 during his time as a Manchester United player and he also won in 2013 and 2014 when the France Football award merged with FIFA’s World Player of the Year Award to become the FIFA Ballon d’Or.
This year France Football took back sole control of the prize, first awarded to England and Blackpool’s Stanley Matthews in 1956, meaning votes were the responsibility of a select number of journalists across Europe, rather than international captains and coaches.

Ronaldo, who signed a new five-year contract in November, was recognised for his dominance on the European stage.

17th

Luka Modric, Toni Kroos, Dimitri Payet

16th

Robert Lewandowski

14th

Paul Pogba, Arturo Vidal

13th

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

12th

Rui Patricio

11th

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

9th

Gianluigi Buffon

Pepe

8th

Jamie Vardy

7th

Riyad Mahrez

6th

Gareth Bale (Real Madrid)

5-2 to come!

The 30-man shortlist for the Ballon d’Or was as follows:

Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund), Gareth Bale (Real Madrid), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City), Paulo Dybala (Juventus), Diego Godin (Atletico Madrid), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid), Gonzalo Higuain (Juventus), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Koke (Atletico Madrid), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich), Hugo Lloris (Tottenham Hotspur), Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Luka Modric (Real Madrid), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Neymar (Barcelona), Dimitri Payet (West Ham), Pepe (Real Madrid), Paul Pogba (Manchester United), Rui Patricio (Sporting Lisbon), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Luis Suarez (Barcelona), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City), Arturo Vidal (Bayern Munich).
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