Most of the countries whose players won the Ballon d'Or
¶ Argentina: 07 times
¶ Portugal: 07 times
¶ Germany: 07 times
¶ Netherlands: 07 times
¶ France: 07 times
¶ Brazil: 05 times
¶ Italy: 05 times
¶ England: 05 times
¶ The Soviet Union: 03 times
¶ Spain: 03 times
¶ Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Liberia, Hungary, Northern Ireland, Bulgaria, Scotland, Ukraine: once