List of FIFA Ballon d'Or award winner

List of FIFA Ballon d'Or award winner 

1. The final recipient of the Ballon d'Or was Lionel Messi, the third Argentine to win the award, but the first as an Argentine citizen. The Ballon d'Or and the men's FIFA World Player of the Year award were merged in 2010 and the world's best male player has since been awarded the FIFA Ballon d'Or each year.

Year	1st	2nd	3rd
1991	Lothar Matthäus (Internazionale)	Jean-Pierre Papin (Marseille)	Gary Lineker (Tottenham Hotspur)
1992	Marco van Basten (Milan)	Hristo Stoichkov (Barcelona)	Thomas Häßler (Roma)
1993	Roberto Baggio (Juventus)	Romário (Barcelona, PSV Eindhoven)	Dennis Bergkamp (Internazionale, Ajax)
1994	Romário (Barcelona)	Hristo Stoichkov (Barcelona)	Roberto Baggio (Juventus)
1995	George Weah (Milan, Paris Saint-Germain)	Paolo Maldini (Milan)	Jürgen Klinsmann (Bayern Munich,Tottenham Hotspur)
1996	Ronaldo (Barcelona, PSV Eindhoven)	George Weah (Milan)	Alan Shearer (Newcastle United,Blackburn Rovers)
1997	Ronaldo (Internazionale,Barcelona)	Roberto Carlos (Real Madrid)	Dennis Bergkamp (Arsenal)  Zinedine Zidane (Juventus)
1998	Zinedine Zidane (Juventus)	Ronaldo (Internazionale)	Davor Šuker (Real Madrid)
1999	Rivaldo (Barcelona)	David Beckham (Manchester United)	Gabriel Batistuta (Fiorentina)
2000	Zinedine Zidane (Juventus)	Luís Figo (Real Madrid,Barcelona)	Rivaldo (Barcelona)
2001	Luís Figo (Real Madrid)	David Beckham (Manchester United)	Raúl (Real Madrid)
2002	Ronaldo (Real Madrid,Internazionale)	Oliver Kahn (Bayern Munich)	Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid)
2003	Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid)	Thierry Henry (Arsenal)	Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
2004	Ronaldinho (Barcelona)	Thierry Henry (Arsenal)	Andriy Shevchenko (Milan)
2005	Ronaldinho (Barcelona)	Frank Lampard (Chelsea)	Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona)
2006	Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid,Juventus)	Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid)	Ronaldinho (Barcelona)
2007	Kaká (Milan)	Lionel Messi (Barcelona)	Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)
2008	Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)	Lionel Messi (Barcelona)	Fernando Torres (Liverpool)
2009	Lionel Messi (Barcelona)	Cristiano Ronaldo(Manchester United)	Xavi (Barcelona)
Since 2010, the world's best player has been awarded the FIFA Ballon d'Or.