2004 Ballon d'Or

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]

2004 Ballon d'Or winner Andriy Shevchenko

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
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
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
Manchester United		 22 - 1 3 2 5 11
9th Ricardo Carvalho  Portugal Porto
Chelsea		 18 - 2 2 2 - 6
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
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
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
Vicente  Spain Valencia 1 - - - - 1 1

Non-voted players

The following 21 men 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
  1. The Guardian staff (13 December 2004). "Shevchenko wins Ballon d'Or". The Guardian.
  2. {{cite news|last= Dias |first= Jorge |url= http://www.record.xl.pt/arquivo/interior.aspx?content_id=216213 |title= Os cinco magnificos |trans-title= The five magnificent |language= pt |date= 10
  3. Pierrend, José (26 March 2005). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 2004". RSSSF.
  4. Moore, Rob (21 January 2011). "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF.
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