Most Ballon d'Or wins by club: Teams with multiple champions of football prize

The Ballon d'Or remains the most sought-after individual award in men's football with the modern era dominated by the rivalry of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Argentina and Portugal greats have won a combined 14 of the 16 awards since 2008 as part of their thrilling duopoly of major team and player honours in the past two decades.

However, the incredible performances of Messi, Ronaldo and other winners is only one part of their Ballon d'Or success, with impressive teams providing the platform for star players to shine brightly.

Major clubs from across Europe have produced Ballon d'Or winners since its first edition in 1956 and The Sporting News takes a look at which clubs have produced the most winners.

When we say "produced", we mean the team for whom the winner of the award was playing in the year of his triumph, not the club at which they came through the youth system or made their senior debut in the sport.

 Ballon d'Or winners: Who won the most?

With Messi and Ronaldo racking up multiple award wins during their careers, and their peak years spent in Spain, Barcelona and Real Madrid are unsurprisingly the two clubs with the most Ballon d'Or wins.

The Clasico pair have produced 12 award wins each, with eight different players scooping the trophy at Real Madrid, and six at Barcelona. 

Ronaldo won four of his five at Real Madrid (he was at Manchester United for his first), and Messi won six of his seven at Barcelona. He played for Paris Saint-Germain during his last win in 2021.

Six other teams have produced more than one Ballon d'Or winner during their history, with English club Blackpool the most curious entry on the full list, as club great Sir Stanley Matthews won the first award in 1956.

The 24 combined titles