Awarded for | Association football award |
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Country | Sweden |
Presented by | Swedish Football Association,Aftonbladet |
History | |
Most wins | Zlatan Ibrahimović (12) |
Most recent | Viktor Gyökeres (2024) |
Guldbollen (Golden Ball) is a Swedishfootball award given byAftonbladet and theSwedish Football Association to the best male Swedish footballer each year.
The award was created by Bengt Liljedahl[1] and between 1946 and 1965 it was awarded in cooperation withStockholms-Tidningen.[2]
The first Guldbollen award was given in 1946 toGunnar Gren.[3] In 1973,Bo Larsson ofMalmö FF became the first player to win the award for a second time, having previously won it in 1965.Zlatan Ibrahimović is the only player to win the award more than twice, winning it twelve times between 2005 and 2020.[4]
The female equivalent of the award,Diamantbollen, was established in 1990. Both Guldbollen and Diamantbollen are now awarded at theFotbollsgalan.
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