Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are the only two players who have won the award more than three times..
Ballon d'Or is an annual award presented by a French weekly magazine named France Football to the best men's footballer of the year.
Started in 1956, the Ballon d'Or is the oldest individual award in football and is also one of the most prestigious awards in the world along with The Best FIFA Men's Player award.
England's Stanley Mathews was the first recipient of this award in 1956. The award has been held every single year since 1956 barring last year when the organisers had decided to cancel the award to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which had cut short the domestic seasons of several nations.