This Ballon d'Or quiz gives you seven questions on football's biggest individual awards: the men's Ballon d'Or since 1956, FIFA's old World Player of the Year, the Ballon d'Or Féminin and FIFA's women's award. Each question has eight options. Some are valid answers and some are decoys, so first work out which options are right, then pick the one other players are least likely to choose. A popular answer banks £10m and a deep cut banks £150m. It's free and there's no sign-up.
What the Ballon d'Or quiz asks
There are eight Ballon d'Or and player-award questions in the Footbillion bank. Each has a closed answer list with clear dates:
| Question | What you name | Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Winners | A player who has won the men's Ballon d'Or | 1956–2026, including the FIFA Ballon d'Or years 2010–2015 |
| Nations | A country whose player has won the men's award | 1956–2026, by the national team the winner played for |
| Clubs | A club a player was at when he won the men's award | 1956–2026 |
| Repeat winners | A player who has won the men's award more than once | 1956–2026 |
| FIFA World Player | A winner of FIFA's men's award before it merged with the Ballon d'Or | 1991–2009 |
| FIFA women's award | A winner of FIFA Women's World Player of the Year or The Best FIFA Women's Player | 2001–2025 awards |
| Women's podium | A player who finished in the top three of the Ballon d'Or Féminin | 2018–2026 |
| Award and trophy | A men's Ballon d'Or winner who also won the men's World Cup | 1956–2026, honorary awards excluded |
No Ballon d'Or was awarded in 2020, so that year adds no answers.
How Ballon d'Or rounds work
Press play and you get seven of the eight questions in a random order, so each round leaves one out. Each board shows eight options in a shuffled order, and you have 20 seconds per question, or no timer if you tick relaxed mode. A valid pick banks its fee, a decoy scores nothing, and after every question the board shows which options were right and what each was worth.
Your second round will mostly repeat questions, so the aim is to beat your first total by going rarer. When you want something different, switch topic at full-time or play the daily seven on the home page.
Where the rare Ballon d'Or answers hide
In Footbillion, rarity means what other players pick, not how hard a fact is. With the Ballon d'Or the big fees tend to sit in a few places:
- The early winners. Most fans think of the stars of the last 20 years. Winners from the 1950s to the 1980s are picked far less often.
- Clubs outside the usual giants. The award has gone to players at clubs most people never link with it, and those clubs pay much more than the famous ones.
- Smaller football countries. Several nations have just one winner, and they are worth far more than the countries everyone names first.
- The women's awards. Many fans only know the latest winners, so earlier FIFA winners and podium finishers from the first Ballon d'Or Féminin years are often worth a lot.
How the decoys catch you out
Ballon d'Or decoys are near misses: a great player who finished second or third but never won, a one-time winner on the repeat-winners board, a famous club whose stars came close without taking the award home, or a country with world-class players but no winner. Read each question's dates and exact wording before you tap. "Also won the World Cup" rules out every winner whose country fell short, however good his career.
For club football, try the Champions League quiz or the Premier League quiz. For international football, play the World Cup quiz, or mix every topic in Footbillion Unlimited.