The Ballon d'Or award is an annual football award for the best international player from the previous year.

Ballon d'Or award 2008Ronaldo's first Ballon d'Or from 2008

Below are the nominees in the final order after voting for the 2008 award. The winner was Portuguese playerCristiano Ronaldo. This was the first of his five Ballon d'Or awards. See the list of all Ballon d'Or winners.

Final order for the men's 2008 Ballon d'Or

Order Player Club Nationality Points
1 Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United Portugal 446
2 Lionel Messi Barcelona Argentina 281
3 Fernando Torres Liverpool Spain 179
4 Iker Casillas Real Madrid Spain 133
5 Xavi Barcelona Spain 97
6 Andrey Arshavin Zenit Saint Petersburg Russia 64
7 David Villa Valencia Spain 55
8 Zlatan Ibrahimović Internazionale Sweden 30
9 Kaká Milan Brazil 29
10 Steven Gerrard Liverpool England 28
11 Marcos Senna Villarreal Spain 16
12 Emmanuel Adebayor Arsenal Togo 12
13 Wayne Rooney Manchester United England 11
14 Sergio Agüero Atlético Madrid Argentina 10
15 Frank Lampard Chelsea England 8
16 Franck Ribéry Bayern Munich France 7
17 Samuel Eto'o Barcelona Cameroon 6
18 Gianluigi Buffon Juventus Italy 5
19 Michael Ballack Chelsea Germany 4
  Cesc Fàbregas Arsenal Spain 4
21 Didier Drogba Chelsea Ivory Coast 3
  Sergio Ramos Real Madrid Spain 3
  Nemanja Vidić Manchester United Serbia 3
24 Edwin van der Sar Manchester United Netherlands 2
  Ruud van Nistelrooy Real Madrid Netherlands 2
26 Karim Benzema Lyon France 0
  Pepe Real Madrid Portugal 0
  Luca Toni Bayern Munich Italy 0
  Rafael van der Vaart Real Madrid Netherlands 0
  Yuri Zhirkov CSKA Moscow Russia 0