Ballon d'Or winners
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Ballon d'Or winners
Order by the year each player first won it. You place all 46 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
46
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
Cards only
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How to play the Ballon d'Or winners timeline game
Each card is a footballer who won the Ballon d'Or, and you're ordering them by the year they first lifted it. The club they played for at the time is printed under each name. One winner starts on the timeline with their year showing. Slot every new card into the gap where you think it falls: a correct pick reveals the year, while a wrong one still moves the player to their real spot and costs one of your three lives.
Repeat winners appear only once, at their first award, so a player who seemed to win it every season can sit earlier than the run you remember. The deck reaches back to the award's earliest editions and comes up to the present, mostly strikers and playmakers with the odd goalkeeper or defender. The club helps, but the same few giants turn up in every era, so lean on what you know of each player's peak instead.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
How players are doing
This deck has been played 281 times. An average run places 7.3 cards, and 71% of all placements land in the right spot. Only 4 runs have ever placed every card.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Omar Sívori missed 57% of the time, usually by about 2 places
- Luis Suárez missed 53% of the time, usually by about 3 places
- Denis Law missed 52% of the time, usually by about 2 places
The safest card is Cristiano Ronaldo, placed right 99% of the time.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 46 cards you might be dealt, with 18 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Stanley Matthews Blackpool
- Alfredo Di Stéfano Real Madrid
- Luis Suárez Barcelona
- Omar Sívori Juventus
- Lev Yashin Dynamo Moscow
- Eusébio Benfica
- Bobby Charlton Manchester United
- George Best Manchester United
- Gerd Müller Bayern Munich
- Johan Cruyff Ajax
- Oleg Blokhin Dynamo Kyiv
- Kevin Keegan Hamburger SV
- Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Bayern Munich
- Michel Platini Juventus
- Ruud Gullit AC Milan
- Marco van Basten AC Milan
- Jean-Pierre Papin Marseille
- Roberto Baggio Juventus
- George Weah AC Milan
- Ronaldo Inter Milan
- Zinedine Zidane Juventus
- Luís Figo Real Madrid
- Pavel Nedvěd Juventus
- Andriy Shevchenko AC Milan
- Fabio Cannavaro Real Madrid
- Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United
- Lionel Messi Barcelona
- Karim Benzema Real Madrid
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