This article is about the Mexican award. For the France Football award, see Ballon d'Or.
Balón de Oro, also referred to as Mexican Golden Ball (Spanish: Balón de Oro del fútbol mexicano), is an annual awards ceremony held by the Mexican Federation of Association Football to recognize outstanding association football players, head coaches, and referees of the Liga MX each season. Since 1997, the ceremony has been held at the end of the football season. Since the 1996–1997 season, the league championship has been split into two single-round tournaments, giving rise to the current Apertura and Clausura arrangement, and Balón de Oro followed them. In 2001–2002, no awards were handed out as the officials forgot to organize an election. The ceremony entered a 4-year hiatus following the 2012 Clausura until the 2015–16 Liga MX season.
The Mexican Best Footballer (Spanish: Balón de Oro al mejor jugador, literally "Golden Ball to the Best Football Player") is a semi-annual award given by the Mexican Federation of Association Football as one of the Balón de Oro Awards.
Player
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Total
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Year(s)
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Cabinho
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3
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1976–77, 1977–78, 1980–81
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Fabián Estay
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Winter 1997, Verano 1998, Verano 1999
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Cuauhtémoc Blanco
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Winter 1998, 2004–05, Clausura 2007
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Luis García
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2
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1990–91, 1991–92
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Jared Borgetti
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Winter 2000, Verano 2001
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Oswaldo Sánchez
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2003–04, Apertura 2005
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Sinha
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Apertura 2008, Bicentenario 2010
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Humberto Suazo
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Apertura 2009, Apertura 2010
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Lucas Lobos
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Clausura 2011, Apertura 2011
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Ítalo Estupiñán
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1
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1974–75
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Rafael Chávez
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1975–76
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Hugo Sánchez
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1978–79
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Miguel Marín
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1979–80
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Gerónimo Barbadillo
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1981–82
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Cristóbal Ortega
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1982–83
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Héctor Zelada
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1983–84
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Manuel Negrete
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1984–85
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Benjamín Galindo
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1986–87
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Antônio Carlos Santos
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1987–88
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Patricio Hernández
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1988–89
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Jorge Aravena
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1989–90
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Ivo Basay
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1992–93
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Osmar Donizete
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1993–94
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Carlos Hermosillo
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1994–95
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Álex Aguinaga
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1995–96
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Alberto Coyote
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1996–97
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Jesús Olalde
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Winter 1999
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Víctor Ruiz
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Summer 2000
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José Cardozo
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Apertura 2002
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Guillermo Franco
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Clausura 2003
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Walter Gaitán
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Clausura 2006
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Vicente Sánchez
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Apertura 2006
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Daniel Ludueña
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Apertura 2007
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Christian Benítez
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Clausura 2008
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Christian Giménez
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Clausura 2009
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Oribe Peralta
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Clausura 2012
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André-Pierre Gignac
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2015–16
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Raúl Ruidíaz
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2016–17
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Rubens Sambueza
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2017–18
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Guido Rodríguez
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2018–19
|
Jonathan Rodríguez
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2020–21
|
Camilo Vargas
|
2021–22
|
Henry Martín
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2022–23
|
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