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Premier League, Bundesliga or LaLiga - Which league has produced most Ballon d'Or winners?

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Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d'Or a record seven times...

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✅ Streams all 380 LaLiga fixtures throughout the season in both English and Spanish, including every El Clásico fixture.

✅ Provides full match replays, extended highlights, and Spanish football studio shows (such as LaLiga Confidential and ESPN FC) accessible whenever you want.

✅ Bundles Spanish top-flight football alongside extensive European and domestic action, including the German Bundesliga, Copa del Rey, and FA Cup.

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Ballon d'Or is perhaps the greatest individual award in football, with the winner considered the best player in the world at the time.

The annual award by French weekly magazine named France Football is given to the best footballer of the year. While it was started exclusively for men, currently the award is presented to both men and women.

England's Stanley Mathews was the first recipient of this award in 1956 while Argentina's Lionel Messi has received the award on the most number of occasions, a record seven times.

Between 2010 and 2015, France Football had entered into an agreement with FIFA to merge the Ballon D'or temporarily with the FIFA World Player of the Year award which was started in 1991. In those six years, the new award was called FIFA Ballon d'Or. 

While LaLiga has produced the most Ballon d'Or winners, only two clubs from Spain have had their players win the coveted award.

LaLiga has also had the most number of awards courtesy of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Let's take a look at which league has produced most Ballon d'Or winners.

  • Lionel Messi Ballon d'Or 2021Getty

    Ligue 1

    Clubs: PSG, Marseille

    No. of players: 2

    No. of wins: 2

    Players: Lionel Messi (1), Jean-Pierre Papin (1).

  • Denis Law, Cristiano Ronaldo, Bobby Charlton, Ballon d'Or winnersGetty Images

    Premier League

    Clubs: Manchester United, Blackpool, Liverpool

    No. of players: 6

    No. of wins: 6

    Players: Cristiano Ronaldo (1), Denis Law (1), Bobby Charlton (1), George Best (1), Michael Owen (1), Stanley Mathews (1).

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    Bundesliga

    Clubs: Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Monchengladbach

    No. of players: 6

    No. of wins: 9

    Players: Franz Beckenbauer (2), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (2), Gerd Muller (1), Kevin Keegan (2), Matthias Sammer (1), Allan Simonsen (1).

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    Serie A

    Clubs: Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milan

    No. of players: 14

    No. of wins: 18

    Players: Omar Sivori (1), Paolo Rossi (1), Michel Platini (3), Roberto Baggio (1), Zinedine Zidane (1), Pavel Nedved (1), Gianni Rivera (1), Ruud Gullit (1), Marco van Basten (3), George Weah (1), Andriy Shevchenko (1), Kaka (1), Ronaldo (1).

  • Lionel Messi Cristiano Ronaldo Ballon d'Or 2015Getty Images

    LaLiga

    Clubs: FC Barcelona, Real Madrid

    No. of players: 13

    No. of wins: 24

    Players: Lionel Messi (6), Johan Cruyff (2), Luis Suarez (1), Rivaldo (1), Ronaldinho (1), Hristo Stoichkov (1), Cristiano Ronaldo (5), Alfredo Di Stefano (2), Raymond Kopa (1), Luis Figo (1), Fabio Cannavaro (1), Luka Modric (1)