Golden Ball may refer to:

Awards

  • Golden Ball Award, FIFA competition award for best player of tournament
  • FIFA World Cup Golden Ball, FIFA World Cup award for best player of tournament
  • FIFA U-20 World Cup Golden Ball, FIFA U-20 World Cup award for best player of tournament
  • FIFA U-17 World Cup Golden Ball, FIFA U-20 World Cup award for best player of tournament
  • FIFA Women's World Cup Golden Ball, FIFA Women's World Cup award for best player of tournament
  • FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Golden Ball, FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup award for best player of tournament
  • FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Golden Ball, FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup award for best player of tournament
  • FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball, FIFA Club World Cup award for best player of tournament
  • FIFA Confederations Cup Golden Ball, FIFA Confederations Cup award for best player of tournament
  • Ballon d'Or, an international annual association football award
  • FIFA Ballon d'Or (2010–2015), annual association football award created with the merger of Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year between 2010 and 2015
  • Golden Ball (Czech Republic), association football award
  • Hungarian Golden Ball, annual association football award
  • Portuguese Golden Ball, annual association football award
  • Vietnamese Golden Ball, annual association football award

Facilities and structures

  • Golden Ball (stadium), an Irish association football stadium and home ground for Wayside Celtic F.C.
  • Golden Ball (St. Paul's Churchyard), a historical bookseller in London
  • Golden Ball, Poulton-le-Fylde, a pub and hotel in England
  • Golden Ball, York, a pub in York, England

People

  • Edward Hughes Ball Hughes (1798–1863), an English dandy of the Regency period, nicknamed 'The Golden Ball'
  • David Beckham (born 1975), English footballer, nicknamed "Golden Balls"

Arts and entertainment

  • Golden Balls, a 2007–2009 British daytime TV game show
  • The Golden Ball (novel), a 1987–2007 novel trilogy by Heorhiy Pocheptsov
  • The Golden Ball and Other Stories, a 1971 short-story collection by Agatha Christie
  • Golden Balls (film), a 1993 Spanish film
  • Golden Balls (video game), a 2008 video game developed by Mindscape

Other

  • Echinocactus grusonii, or Golden Ball cactus, a critically endangered species
  • The traditional three-ball symbol for a pawnbroker

See also

  • Golden Globe (disambiguation)
  • Golden (disambiguation)
  • Ball (disambiguation)