SOCCER MEN'S WORLD CUP GOLDEN BALL AWARD
presented to the best player at each FIFA World Cup finals| Golden Ball | Silver Ball | Bronze Ball | |
| 2014 Brazil | Lionel Messi, Argentina |
Thomas Muller, Germany |
Arjen Robben, Netherlands |
| 2010 South Africa | Diego Forlán, Uruguay | Wesley Sneijder, Netherlands | David Villa, Spain |
| 2006 Germany | Zinedine Zidane, France | Fabio Cannavaro, Italy | Andrea Pirlo, Italy |
| 2002 Korea/Japan | Oliver Kahn, Germany | Ronaldo, Brazil | Hong Myung-Bo, South Korea |
| 1998 France | Ronaldo, Brazil | Davor Šuker, Croatia | Lilian Thuram, France |
| 1994 United States | Romário, Brazil | Roberto Baggio, Italy | Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgaria |
| 1990 Italy | Salvatore Schillaci, Italy | Lothar Matthäus, Germany | Diego Maradona, Argentina |
| 1986 Mexico | Diego Maradona, Argentina | Harald Schumacher, West Germany | Preben Elkjær Larsen, Denmark |
| 1982 Spain | Paolo Rossi, Italy | Falcão, Brazil | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, West Germany |
| 1978 Argentina | Mario Kempes, Argentina | Paolo Rossi, Italy | Dirceu, Brazil |
| 1974 West Germany | Johan Cruyff, Netherlands | Franz Beckenbauer, West Germany | Kazimierz Deyna, Poland |
| 1970 Mexico | Pelé, Brazil | Gérson, Brazil | Gerd Muller, West Germany |
| 1966 England | Bobby Charlton, England | Bobby Moore, England | Eusébio, Portugal |
| 1962 Chile | Garrincha, Brazil | Josef Masopust, Czechoslovakia | Leonel Sánchez, Chile |
| 1958 Sweden | Didi, Brazil | Pelé, Brazil | Just Fontaine, France |
| 1954 Switzerland | Ferenc Puskás, Hungary | Sándor Kocsis, Hungary | Fritz Walter, West Germany |
| 1950 Brazil | Zizinho, Brazil | Juan Schiaffino, Uruguay | Ademir, Brazil |
| 1938 France | Leônidas, Brazil | Silvio Piola, Italy | György Sárosi, Hungary |
| 1934 Italy | Giuseppe Meazza, Italy | Matthias Sindelar, Austria | Oldrich Nejedlý, Czechoslovakia |
| 1930 Uruguay | José Nasazzi, Uruguay | Guillermo Stábile, Argentina | José Leandro Andrade, Uruguay |
