UEFA Champions League winners and Girls’s Euro champions dominated the listing of Ballon d’Or nominees, with Thursday’s announcement probably paving the best way for brand spanking new winners of the game’s high particular person accolade within the males’s and girls’s sport.
On the boys’s aspect, 9 Paris Saint-Germain gamers together with Ousmane Dembele and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia made the shortlist simply two months after enjoying a key function because the French membership received their first-ever Champions League title. Different contenders embrace Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah after a record-breaking marketing campaign en path to his second Premier League title and Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal, a rising star after profitable the home double final season. Actual Madrid’s Vinicius Junior can also be again among the many nominees a yr after he and his membership teammates boycotted the ceremony upon discovering he wouldn’t win the prize.
Menawhile within the ladies’s sport, 4 members of England’s Girls’s Euro-winning staff, together with standout Alessia Russo and stalwart Lucy Bronze, additionally made the minimize. Two U.S. ladies’s nationwide staff gamers — Emily Fox and Lindsey Heaps — are additionally on the listing and 5 NWSL gamers, together with final season’s MVP Temwa Chawinga, are additionally within the operating.
France Soccer, the French journal that organizes the Ballon d’Or, additionally named the nominees for a number of different classes — the Kopa Trophy for younger gamers, the Yashin Trophy for goalkeepers, the Johan Cruyff award that celebrates coaches and the membership of the yr award. The winners will probably be introduced on Sept. 22 at a ceremony in Paris.
If we had a 2025 Ballon d’Or vote, listed here are the nominees we might vote for and why
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See under for a full listing of the nominees.
Males’s Ballon d’Or nominees
- Jude Bellingham (Actual Madrid/England)
- Ousmane Dembele (Paris Saint-Germain/France)
- Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain/Italy)
- Want Doue (Paris Saint-Germain/France)
- Denzel Dumfries (Inter/Netherlands)
- Serhou Guirassy (Borussia Dortmund/Guinea)
- Viktor Gyokeres (Arsenal/Sweden)
- Erling Haaland (Manchester Metropolis/Norway)
- Achraf Hakimi (Paris Saint-Germain/Morocco)
- Harry Kane (Bayern Munich/England)
- Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Paris Saint-Germain/Georgia)
- Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona/Poland)
- Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool/Argentina)
- Lautaro Martinez (Inter/Argentina)
- Kylian Mbappe (Actual Madrid/France)
- Scott McTominay (Napoli/Scotland)
- Nuno Mendes (Paris Saint-Germain/Portugal)
- Joao Neves (Paris Saint-Germain/Portugal)
- Michael Olise (Bayern Munich/France)
- Cole Palmer (Chelsea/England)
- Pedri (Barcelona/Spain)
- Raphinha (Barcelona/Brazil)
- Declan Rice (Arsenal/England)
- Fabian Ruiz (Paris Saint-Germain/Spain)
- Mohamed Salah (Liverpool/Egypt)
- Vinicius Junior (Actual Madrid/Brazil)
- Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool/Netherlands)
- Vitinha (Paris Saint-Germain/Portugal)
- Florian Wirtz (Liverpool/Germany)
- Lamine Yamal (Barcelona/Spain)
Girls’s Ballon d’Or nominees
- Sandy Baltimore (Chelsea/France)
- Barbra Banda (Orlando Pleasure/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 (NJ/NY Gotham FC/Spain)
- Caroline Graham Hansen (Barcelona/Norway)
- Patri Guijarro (Barcelona/Spain)
- Amanda Gutierres (Palmeiras/Brazil)
- Hannah Hampton (Chelsea/England)
- Pernille More durable (Bayern Munich/Denmark)
- Lindsey Heaps (Lyon/USA)
- Chloe Kelly (Arsenal/England)
- Frida Leonhardsen Maanum (Arsena/ Norway)
- Marta (Orlando Pleasure/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 nominees
- Ayyoub Bouaddi (Lille/France)
- Pau Cubarsi (Barcelona/Spain)
- Want Doue (Paris Saint-Germain/France)
- Estevao Willian (Chelsea/Brazil)
- Dean Huijsen (Actual Madrid/Spain)
- Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal/England)
- Rodrigo Mora (Porto/Portugal)
- Joao Neves (Paris Saint-Germain/Portugal)
- Lamine Yamal (Barcelona/Spain)
- Kenan Yildiz (Juventus/Turkey)
Girls’s Kopa Trophy nominees
- Michelle Agyemang (Arsenal/England)
- Linda Caicedo (Actual Madrid/Colombia)
- Wieke Kaptein (Chelsea/Netherlands)
- Claudia Martinez Ovando (Membership Olimpia/Paraguay)
- Vicky Lopez (Barcelona/Spain)
Males’s Yashin Trophy nominees
- Alisson Becker (Liverpool/Brazil)
- Yassine Bounou (Al-Hilal/Morocco)
- Lucas Chevalier (Lille/France)
- Thibaut Courtois (Actual Madrid/Belgium)
- Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain/Italy)
- Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa/Argentina)
- Jan Oblak (Atletico Madrid/Slovenia)
- David Raya (Arsenal/Spain)
- Matz Sels (Nottingham Forest/Belgium)
- Yann Sommer (Inter/Switzerland)
Girls’s Yashin Trophy nominees
- Ann-Katrin Berger (NJ/NY Gotham FC/Germany)
- Cata Coll (Barcelona/Spain)
- Hannah Hampton (Chelsea/England)
- Chiamaka Nnadozie (Brighton/Nigeria)
- Daphne van Domselaar (Arsenal/Netherlands)
Males’s Johan Cruyff Trophy nominees
- Antonio Conte (Napoli)
- Luis Enrique (Paris Saint-Germain)
- Hansi Flick (Barcelona)
- Enzo Maresca (Chelsea)
- Arne Slot (Liverpool)
Girls’s Johan Cruyff Trophy nominees
- Sonia Bompastor (Chelsea)
- Arthur Elias (Brazil)
- Justine Madugu (Nigeria)
- Renee Slegers (Arsenal)
- Sarina Wiegman (England)
Males’s Membership of the 12 months nominees
- Barcelona (Spain)
- Botafogo (Brazil)
- Chelsea (England)
- Liverpool (England)
- Paris Saint-Germain (France)
Girls’s Membership of the 12 months nominees
- Arsenal (England)
- Barcelona (Spain)
- Chelsea (England)
- OL Lyonnes (France)
- Orlando Pleasure (United States)
