Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d'Or seven times in a row.
The Ballon d'Or is perhaps football's greatest individual award, with the winner regarded as the best player in the world at the time.
The annual France Football award is given to the best footballer of the year by a French weekly magazine. While the award was originally only given to men, it is now given to both men and women.
Stanley Mathews of England was the first recipient of this award in 1956, while Argentina's Lionel Messi has received it the most times, a record seven times.
Between 2010 and 2015, France Football reached an agreement with FIFA to temporarily combine the Ballon D'or with the FIFA World Player of the Year award, which was established in 1991. During those six years, the new award was known as the FIFA Ballon d'Or.
While LaLiga has produced the most Ballon d'Or winners, only two Spanish clubs have had players win the prestigious award.
LaLiga has also won the most awards, thanks to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Let's see which league has produced the most Ballon d'Or winners.
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 winners
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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Players: Franz Beckenbauer (2), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (2), Gerd Muller (1), Kevin Keegan (2), Matthias Sammer (1), Allan Simonsen (1).
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).
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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)
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