The Ballon d’Or nominees have been introduced for 2025 because the prize for one of the best female and male footballers of the yr hots up.
Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham, Declan Rice, Cole Palmer and Scott McTominay are the British gamers nominated for the boys’s prize, with 5 Lionesses within the ladies’s part – Lucy Bronze, Hannah Hampton, Chloe Kelly, Alessia Russo and Leah Williamson.
Within the males’s Ballon d’Or, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi should not nominated for the award. Final yr was the primary time the pair – winners of all however one of many earlier 14 Ballon d’Ors – weren’t shortlisted for the prize.
There are additionally different prizes up for grabs within the September ceremony, together with the Males’s and Girls’s Kopa Trophies for one of the best younger gamers – in addition to the Yashin Trophy for one of the best goalkeeper.
There are 4 Premier League goalkeepers up for the prize, as Aston Villa’s Emiliano Martinez seems to win the trophy for the third yr in a row. He’s joined by Liverpool’s Alisson Becker, Arsenal’s David Raya and Nottingham Forest’s Matz Sels within the shortlist.
Chelsea and England goalkeeper Hannah Hampton is on the shortlist for the Girls’s Yashin Trophy
There may be additionally double Arsenal illustration within the Kopa Trophies via Myles Lewis-Skelly within the males’s shortlist, with England hero Michelle Agyemang among the many ladies’s nominees.
Chelsea and Liverpool have been nominated for the Males’s Workforce of the Yr prizes, with head coaches Enzo Maresca and Arne Slot up for the supervisor prizes.
It’s the similar for Arsenal and Chelsea within the ladies’s part of these awards, with England boss Sarina Wiegman becoming a member of Sonia Bompastor and Renee Slegers within the supervisor shortlist.
When is the Ballon d’Or ceremony?
The 69th Ballon d’Or ceremony will happen on September 22, 2025 on the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France.
How are the Ballon d’Or winners determined?
The shortlist was compiled by a gaggle of journalists from France Soccer working alongside French sports activities publication L’Equipe.
Within the males’s Ballon d’Or prize, winners are determined by a voting system involving one journalist from every of the highest 100 FIFA-ranked nations.
Every journalist casts votes for his or her high 10 gamers from the 30-player shortlist. The ten gamers are awarded 15, 12, 10, seven, 5, 4, three, two and one level based mostly on the place they rank.
If gamers are tied on factors, then whoever has essentially the most first-placed rankings from the 100 journalists finishes forward on factors. If that’s tied, then it is essentially the most second-places and so forth.
Journalists are inspired to contemplate three elements when deciding their vote:
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Particular person performances, decisive and spectacular character
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Workforce performances and achievements
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Class and honest play
For the ladies’s Ballon d’Or, the identical course of applies however solely journalists from the top-50 ranked nations are invited to vote.
Males’s Ballon d’Or nominees
- Jude Bellingham (Actual Madrid & England)
- Ousmane Dembele (PSG & France)
- Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG & Italy)
- Want Doue (PSG & France)
- Denzel Dumfries (Inter Milan & Netherlands)
- Serhou Guirassy (Borussia Dortmund & Guinea)
- Viktor Gyokeres (Arsenal & Sweden)
- Erling Haaland (Man Metropolis & Norway)
- Achraf Hakimi (PSG & Morocco)
- Harry Kane (Bayern Munich & England)
- Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (PSG & Georgia)
- Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona & Poland)
- Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool & Argentina)
- Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan & Argentina)
- Kylian Mbappe (Actual Madrid & France)
- Scott McTominay (Napoli & Scotland)
- Nuno Mendes (PSG & Portugal)
- Joao Neves (PSG & Portugal)
- Michael Olise (Bayern Munich & France)
- Cole Palmer (Chelsea & England)
- Pedri (Barcelona & Spain)
- Raphinha (Barcelona & Brazil)
- Declan Rice (Arsenal & England)
- Fabian Ruiz (PSG & Spain)
- Mohamed Salah (Liverpool & Egypt)
- Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool & Netherlands)
- Vinicius Jr (Actual Madrid & Brazil)
- Vitinha (PSG & Portugal)
- Florian Wirtz (Liverpool & Germany)
- Lamine Yamal (Barcelona & Spain)
Girls’s Ballon d’Or nominees
- Sandy Baltimore (Chelsea & France)
- Barbra Banda (Orlando Delight & Zambia)
- Aitana Bonmati (Barcelona & Spain)
- Lucy Bronze (Chelsea & England)
- Klara Buhl (Bayern Munich & Germany)
- Mariona Caldentey (Arsenal & Spain)
- Sofia Cantore (Washington Spirit & Italy)
- Steph Catley (Arsenal & Australia)
- Temwa Chawinga (Kansas Metropolis Present & Malawi)
- Melchie Dumornay (Lyon & Haiti)
- Emily Fox (Arsenal & USA)
- Cristiana Girelli (Juventus & Italy)
- Esther Gonzalez (Gotham & Spain)
- Caroline Graham Hansen (Barcelona & Norway)
- Patri Guijarro (Barcelona & Spain)
- Amanda Gutierres (Palmeiras & Brazil)
- Hannah Hampton (Chelsea & England)
- Pernille Tougher (Bayern Munich & Denmark)
- Lindsey Heaps (Lyon & USA)
- Chloe Kelly (Arsenal & England)
- Frida Maanum (Arsenal & Norway)
- Marta (Orlando Delight & Brazil)
- Clara Mateo (Paris FC & France)
- Ewa Pajor (Barcelona & Poland)
- Claudia Pina (Barcelona & Spain)
- Alexia Putellas (Barcelona & Spain)
- Alessia Russo (Arsenal & England)
- Johanna Rytting Kaneryd (Chelsea & Sweden)
- Caroline Weir (Actual Madrid & Scotland)
- Leah Williamson (Arsenal & England)
Males’s Kopa Trophy shortlist
- Ayyoub Bouaddi (Lille & France)
- Pau Cubarsi (Barcelona & Spain)
- Want Doue (PSG & France)
- Estevao (Chelsea & Brazil)
- Dean Huijsen (Actual Madrid & Spain)
- Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal & England)
- Rodrigo Mora (FC Porto & Portugal)
- Joao Neves (PSG & Portugal)
- Lamine Yamal (Barcelona & Spain)
- Kenan Yildiz (Juventus & Turkey)
Girls’s Kopa Trophy shortlist
- Michelle Agyemang (Arsenal & England)
- Linda Caicedo (Actual Madrid & Colombia)
- Wieke Kaptein (Chelsea & Netherlands)
- Vicky Lopez (Barcelona & Spain)
- Claudia Martinez (Olimpia & Paraguay)
Males’s Yashin Trophy shortlist
- Alisson Becker (Liverpool & Brazil)
- Yassie Bounou (Al Hilal & Morocco)
- Lucas Chevalier (Lille & France)
- Thibaut Courtois (Actual Madrid & Belgium)
- Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG & Italy)
- Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa & Argentina)
- Jan Oblak (Atletico Madrid & Slovakia)
- David Raya (Arsenal & Spain)
- Matz Sels (Nottingham Forest & Belgium)
- Yann Sommer (Inter Milan & Switzerland)
Girls’s Yachine Trophy shortlist
- Ann-Katrin Berger (Gotham FC &Germany)
- Cata Coll (Barcelona & Spain)
- Hannah Hampton (Chelsea & England)
- Chiamaka Nnadozie (Brighton & Nigeria)
- Daphne van Domselaar (Arsenal & Netherlands)
Males’s Coach of the Yr shortlist
- Antonio Conte (Napoli)
- Luis Enrique (Paris Saint-Germain)
- Hansi Flick (Barcelona)
- Enzo Maresca (Chelsea)
- Arne Slot (Liverpool)
Girls’s Coach of the Yr shortlist
- Sonia Bompastor (Chelsea)
- Arthur Elias (Brazil)
- Justine Madugu (Nigeria)
- Renee Slegers (Arsenal)
- Sarina Wiegman (England)
Males’s Workforce of the Yr shortlist
- Barcelona (Spain)
- Botafogo (Brazil)
- Chelsea (England)
- Liverpool (England)
- Paris Saint-Germain (France)
Girls’s Workforce of the Yr shortlist
- Arsenal (England)
- Barcelona (Spain)
- Chelsea (England)
- Olympique Lyonnais Female (France)
- Orlando Delight (United States)