2004 Ballon d'Or

Annual association football award event in France

Award

2004 Ballon d'Or

2004 Ballon d'Or winner Andriy Shevchenko

Date

13 December 2004

Presented by

France Football

Website

francefootball.fr/ballon-d-or

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The 2004 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was delivered to the Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko on 13 December 2004.^[1] On 9 November 2004, was announced the shortlist of 50 male players compiled by a group of experts from France Football.^[2] There were 52 voters, from Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Wales and Yugoslavia. Each picked a first (5pts), second (4pts), third (3pts), fourth (2pts) and fifth choice (1pt).^[3]

Andriy Shevchenko was the third Ukrainian to win the award after Oleh Blokhin (1975) and Igor Belanov (1986).^[4] He finished top goalscorer in the 2003–04 Serie A, scoring 24 goals in 32 matches, as his team won the league title. The best ranked goalkeeper on the list was Gianluigi Buffon (Italy) with a 17th place (jointly with Traianos Dellas, Fernando Morientes, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba). Ricardo Carvalho (Portugal) was the top ranked defender in the list, at ninth, while Deco (Portugal) was the top ranked midfielder at second place.^[3]

Rankings

Voted players

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club(s)	Total	Votes by place					Votes
Rank	Player	Nationality	Club(s)	Total	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	Votes
1st	Andriy Shevchenko	Ukraine	Milan	175	27	5	5	2	1	40
2nd	Deco	Portugal	Porto Barcelona	139	10	13	9	4	2	38
3rd	Ronaldinho	Brazil	Barcelona	133	9	13	7	4	7	40
4th	Thierry Henry	France	Arsenal	80	3	6	6	10	3	28
5th	Theodoros Zagorakis	Greece	AEK Athens Bologna	44	3	2	3	3	9	20
6th	Adriano	Brazil	Parma Internazionale	27	-	3	2	2	5	12
7th	Pavel Nedvěd	Czech Republic	Juventus	23	-	-	4	4	3	11
8th	Wayne Rooney	England	Everton	22	-	1	3	2	5	11
9th	Ricardo Carvalho	Portugal	Porto Chelsea	18	-	2	2	2	-	6
9th	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Netherlands	Manchester United	18	-	-	4	2	2	8
11th	Angelos Charisteas	Greece	Werder Bremen	15	-	1	1	2	4	8
12th	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	Manchester United	11	-	1	1	2	-	4
12th	Milan Baroš	Czech Republic	Liverpool	11	-	1	-	3	1	5
14th	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	Ajax Juventus	8	-	-	-	3	2	5
15th	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	Mallorca Barcelona	7	-	1	1	-	-	2
15th	Kaká	Brazil	Milan	7	-	1	-	1	1	3
17th	Traianos Dellas	Greece	Roma	5	-	1	-	-	1	2
	Fernando Morientes	Spain	Monaco Real Madrid	5	-	1	-	-	1	2
	Frank Lampard	England	Chelsea	5	-	-	1	1	-	2
	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	Marseille Chelsea	5	-	-	1	-	2	3
	Gianluigi Buffon	Italy	Juventus	5	-	-	1	-	2	3
22nd	Luís Figo	Portugal	Real Madrid	4	-	-	-	2	-	2
23rd	Zinedine Zidane	France	Real Madrid	3	-	-	1	-	-	1
24th	Rubén Baraja	Spain	Valencia	2	-	-	-	1	-	1
	Ludovic Giuly	France	Monaco Barcelona	2	-	-	-	1	-	1
	Maniche	Portugal	Porto	2	-	-	-	1	-	1
	Antonios Nikopolidis	Greece	Panathinaikos Olympiacos	2	-	-	-	-	2	2
28th	Paolo Maldini	Italy	Milan	1	-	-	-	-	1	1
28th	Vicente	Spain	Valencia	1	-	-	-	-	1	1

Non-voted players

The following 21 players were originally in contention for the 2004 Ballon d’Or, but did not receive any votes:

Player	Nationality	Club(s)
Aílton	Brazil	Werder Bremen Schalke 04
Roberto Ayala	Argentina	Valencia
Fabien Barthez	France	Manchester United Marseille
David Beckham	England	Real Madrid
Petr Čech	Czech Republic	Chelsea
Emerson	Brazil	Roma Juventus
Juninho	Brazil	Lyon
Michalis Kapsis	Greece	AEK Athens Bordeaux
Henrik Larsson	Sweden	Celtic Barcelona
Johan Micoud	France	Werder Bremen
Mista	Spain	Valencia
Alessandro Nesta	Italy	Milan
Andrea Pirlo	Italy	Milan
José Antonio Reyes	Spain	Sevilla Arsenal
Ronaldo	Brazil	Real Madrid
Djibril Cissé	France	Auxerre Liverpool
Paul Scholes	England	Manchester United
Clarence Seedorf	Netherlands	Milan
Giourkas Seitaridis	Greece	Panathinaikos Porto
Francesco Totti	Italy	Roma
Patrick Vieira	France	Arsenal

References

^ The Guardian staff (13 December 2004). "Shevchenko wins Ballon d'Or". The Guardian.
^ Dias, Jorge. "Os cinco magnificos" [The five magnificent] (in Portuguese).
^ ^a ^b Pierrend, José (26 March 2005). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 2004". RSSSF.
^ Moore, Rob (21 January 2011). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF.