Balón de Oro (Mexico)


Balón de Oro, also referred to as Mexican Golden Ball, is an annual Mexican awards ceremony by the Mexican Federation of Association Football to the best association football players, head coaches, and referees of the Liga MX each season. Until 1997, it was an annual award, afterwards the prize was rewarded at the end of the football season. Since 1996/97 the single championship was split into two single-round tournaments, giving birth to the current Apertura and Clausura arrangement, and Balón de Oro is followed them. In 2001/02 no awards were handed out as the officials forgot about organising an election. The ceremony entered a 4-year hiatus following the 2012 Clausura until the 2015–16 Liga MX season.
The Mexican Best Footballer is a half-yearly award given by the Mexican Federation of Association Football as one of the Balón de Oro Awards.

Winners

By player

PlayerTotalYear
Cabinho31976–77, 1977–78, 1980–81
Fabián Estay3Winter 1997, Verano 1998, Verano 1999
Cuauhtémoc Blanco3Winter 1998, 2004–05, Clausura 2007
Luis García21990–91, 1991–92
Jared Borgetti2Winter 2000, Verano 2001
Oswaldo Sánchez22003–04, Apertura 2005
Sinha2Apertura 2008, Bicentenario 2010
Humberto Suazo2Apertura 2009, Apertura 2010
Lucas Lobos2Clausura 2011, Apertura 2011
Ítalo Estupiñán11974–75
Rafael Chávez11975–76
Hugo Sánchez11978–79
Miguel Marín11979–80
Gerónimo Barbadillo11981–82
Cristóbal Ortega11982–83
Héctor Zelada11983–84
Manuel Negrete11984–85
Benjamín Galindo11986–87
Antônio Carlos Santos11987–88
Patricio Hernández11988–89
Jorge Aravena11989–90
Ivo Basay11992–93
Osmar Donizete11993–94
Carlos Hermosillo11994–95
Álex Aguinaga11995–96
Alberto Coyote11996–97
Jesús Olalde1Winter 1999
Víctor Ruiz1Summer 2000
José Cardozo1Apertura 2002
Guillermo Franco1Clausura 2003
Walter Gaitán1Clausura 2006
Vicente Sánchez1Apertura 2006
Daniel Ludueña1Apertura 2007
Christian Benítez1Clausura 2008
Christian Giménez1Clausura 2009
Oribe Peralta1Clausura 2012
André-Pierre Gignac12015–16
Raúl Ruidíaz12016–17
Rubens Sambueza12017–18
Guido Rodríguez12018–19

By country

NationalityTotalPlayer
2115
1110
74
53
33
22
11
11
11

By club

ClubTotalPlayer
Toluca107
América75
UNAM75
Santos Laguna54
UANL54
Guadalajara43
Monterrey32
Cruz Azul33
Necaxa22
León11
Atlante11
Morelia11
Pachuca11
Puebla11
UAG11