1958 Raymond Kopa (Real Madrid)
1959 Alfredo Di Stefano (Real Madrid)
1960 Luis Suarez (Barcelona)
1961 Omar Sivori (Juventus)
1962 Josef Masopust (Dukla Prague)
1963 Lev Yashin (Dynamo Moscow)
1964 Denis Law (Manchester United)
1965 Eusebio (Benfica)
1966 Bobby Charlton (Manchester United)
1967 Florian Albert (Ferencvaros)
1968 George Best (Manchester United)
1969 Gianni Rivera (AC Milan)
1970 Gerd Mueller (Bayern Muenchen)
1971 Johan Cruyff (Ajax Amsterdam)
1972 Franz Beckenbauer (Bayern Muenchen)
1973/74 Johan Cruyff (Ajax Amsterdam)
1975 Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)
1976 Franz Beckenbauer (Bayern Muenchen)
1977 Allan Simonsen (Borussia Monchengladbach)
1978/79 Kevin Keegan (Hamburg)
1980/81 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (Bayern Muenchen)
1982 Paolo Rossi (Juventus)
1983/85 Michel Platini (Juventus)
1986 Igor Belanov (Dynamo Kyiv)
1987 Ruud Gullit (AC Milan)
1988/89 Marco Van Basten (AC Milan)
1990 Lothar Matthaus (Inter Milan)
1991 Jean-Pierre Papin (Marseille)
1992 Marco Van Basten (AC Milan)
1993 Roberto Baggio (Juventus)
1994 Hristo Stoichkov (Barcelona)
1995 George Weah (AC Milan)
1996 Matthias Sammer (Borussia Dortmund)
1997 Ronaldo (Inter Milan)
1998 Zinedine Zidane (Juventus)
