2025 Ballon d'Or: Dembele wins for 1st time, Bonmati seals 3-peat

The 2025 Ballon d’Or ceremony befell Monday on the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France. View all of the winners of soccer’s most prestigious particular person accolades under.

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Males’s Ballon d’Or

Ousmane Dembele 🏆

Paris Saint-Germain ahead Dembele took dwelling the 2025 Ballon d’Or as recognition for an unbelievable marketing campaign during which his dramatic positional change and scoring exploits lifted PSG to a first-ever Champions League title and continental treble.

The French star, moved right into a center-forward position halfway by the season, registered 33 targets and 13 assists throughout all competitions as PSG received Ligue 1, the Coupe de France, and the elusive big-eared trophy. He supplied a purpose and an help within the Champions League semifinals, created a pair of tallies within the closing, and likewise took dwelling the Ligue 1 Participant of the 12 months award after ending because the league’s joint-top scorer.

The previous Barcelona winger was offered the Ballon d’Or by Brazilian icon and crowd favourite Ronaldinho, whose easy announcement of “Dembele” was greeted by raucous applause and chants of “Ousmane, Ousmane” contained in the Theatre du Chatelet within the French capital.

Barcelona sensation Lamine Yamal, who earlier retained the Kopa Trophy as one of the best Beneath-21 participant, completed second behind Dembele within the voting.

Dembele made particular point out of the assist he obtained from his mom, who joined him on stage earlier than the 2 shared an emotional embrace following the ahead’s acceptance speech.

“We have finished this all collectively,” the 28-year-old stated, wiping away tears.

Dembele’s triumph offers France eight males’s Ballon d’Or wins as a rustic, tied for probably the most ever with Argentina. All eight of the latter’s have come from Lionel Messi. Germany (together with West Germany), the Netherlands, and Portugal every have seven.

Ladies’s Ballon d’Or

Aitana Bonmati 🏆

Bonmati made historical past Monday by claiming her third consecutive Ballon d’Or Feminin, turning into the one participant to ever accomplish the feat. Messi and Michel Platini are the one others, male or feminine, to match what the 27-year-old playmaker has achieved.

Bonmati beat out Arsenal midfielder and compatriot Mariona Caldentey, who completed second within the voting.

Bonmati’s triumph continues Spain’s run of dominance on this class. She and Barcelona teammate and fellow Spaniard Alexia Putellas have now mixed to take dwelling this trophy in every of the previous 5 years.

A powerful English contingent, led by Chloe Kelly, Alessia Russo, and Leah Williamson, had been seeking to carry that streak to an finish after Arsenal received the Champions League and the Lionesses beat Spain in a riveting Euro 2025 closing, however they got here up simply brief.

Russo was the closest contender, ending third.

Bonmati, the heartbeat of Barcelona’s good girls’s group, was named one of the best participant at Euro 2025 this summer time. She led her nation to the event closing regardless of being hospitalized with viral meningitis previous to the competitors.

Kopa Trophy (Greatest U21 Participant)

Lamine Yamal 🏆Vicky Lopez 🏆

Was there ever any doubt?

Barcelona famous person Yamal defended the trophy he captured final season because the world’s finest participant beneath 21 years of age. He is the primary participant to efficiently retain the honour within the brief historical past of the award. Yamal, 18, might maintain maintain of this one till he ages out of the class.

He beat out the likes of Want Doue, Dean Huijsen, and Kenan Yildiz.

“Perhaps I am going to goodbye,” gala co-host Ruud Gullit teased as Yamal left the stage, referencing the Spaniard’s possibilities of profitable the Ballon d’Or later within the night. He got here agonizingly shut, ending second to Dembele.

Fellow Spanish teenager Vicky Lopez made it a clear sweep within the U21 class for Barcelona, profitable the ladies’s Kopa Trophy. She got here out forward of Euro 2025 breakout star Michelle Agyemang and Actual Madrid ahead Linda Caicedo, amongst others.

Yachine Trophy (Greatest Goalkeeper)

Gianluigi Donnarumma 🏆Hannah Hampton 🏆

Emiliano Martinez has been unseated. The Argentine netminder was aiming to be named the sport’s high males’s goalkeeper for the third consecutive 12 months, however the honor went to Donnarumma after the Italian performed an instrumental position in serving to Paris Saint-Germain get pleasure from their biggest season in membership historical past. Now at Manchester Metropolis after a summer time switch, Donnarumma was fast to thank his former teammates whereas on stage with compatriot Gianluigi Buffon.

Hampton, in the meantime, was the overwhelming favourite for the ladies’s award after her heroics at Euro 2025. The Chelsea shot-stopper stole the present within the event closing, saving two Spanish penalties in a shootout to raise the Lionesses to their second consecutive European crown.

Yohan Cruyff Trophy (Greatest Coach)

Luis Enrique 🏆Sarina Wiegman 🏆

The tacticians behind two of the standout triumphs of the 2024-25 season had been chosen as the highest coaches of the 12 months. Luis Enrique masterminded Paris Saint-Germain’s youth motion and philosophical shift that ended with a historic Champions League title.

On the ladies’s facet, adorned Dutch coach Wiegman took dwelling the {hardware} after guiding England to the Euro 2025 crown. The Lionesses went into the event with huge expectations after profitable the 2022 title, and, thanks largely to Wiegman’s late-game substitutions within the knockout levels, efficiently defended the trophy.

Wiegman took the chance to ship an necessary message on the expansion of the ladies’s recreation.

“The ladies’s recreation has grown so gar, we have now damaged information. This isn’t only a private honor, I see it as a mirrored image of the ladies’s recreation, we have now come to this point,” the 55-year-old stated whereas on stage. “With that development we have now accountability and we have now to try to maintain our identification, being genuine and inclusive. I hope we’ll maintain preventing in opposition to misogyny and racism. Soccer ought to all the time unite and by no means divide.”

Gerd Muller Trophy (High Scorer)

Viktor Gyokeres 🏆Ewa Pajor 🏆

Named after the long-lasting German striker who was some of the prolific gamers in historical past, these awards are bestowed on the highest female and male scorers from final season.

Gyokeres, now at Arsenal, discovered the online 54 instances in 52 appearances for Portuguese outfit Sporting CP. Barcelona’s Polish striker Pajor, in the meantime, scored at almost a purpose per recreation tempo, recording 43 tallies in 45 appearances.

Membership of the 12 months

Males: Paris Saint-Germain 🏆Ladies: Arsenal 🏆

Profitable the Champions League will all the time carry enormous weight on this class at any time when we’re not coping with a World Cup 12 months. And that is exactly the way it performed out. The respective winners of Europe’s premier membership competitors had been acknowledged as the highest groups of the previous season.

With the ceremony happening in Paris, PSG’s triumph was significantly standard contained in the Theatre du Chatelet. Mockingly, whereas PSG had been being honored off the sphere, they suffered a 1-0 defeat to rivals Marseille on the pitch in a match that was rescheduled on account of extreme climate over the weekend and performed concurrently Monday’s ceremony.

Socrates Award

Launched in 2022, the Socrates Award is called after the legendary Brazilian midfielder and acknowledges the humanitarian work of gamers or teams throughout the sport.

This 12 months it went to the Xana Basis, which helps “kids and younger folks affected by oncological ailments and different severe diseases.”

The muse was established in 2023, and is called after the late daughter of PSG supervisor Luis Enrique. Xana handed away in 2019 on the age of 9 after a battle with osteosarcoma, a uncommon type of bone most cancers.