Ballon d'Or nominees: Men set for new winner, Bonmati eyes 3-peat

Males’s soccer continues to be embracing a brand new period whereas the ladies’s recreation may be able to shake issues up.

The boys’s Ballon d’Or might be awarded to a first-time winner for the second straight yr. The most effective participant of 2024, Manchester Metropolis midfielder Rodri, and the winners over the 15 editions earlier than Rodri’s triumph – Lionel Messi (eight wins), Cristiano Ronaldo (5), Karim Benzema (one), and Luka Modric (one) – weren’t among the many 30 nominees introduced Thursday for the coveted particular person award.

Barcelona and Spain’s four-year sweep of the Girls’s Ballon d’Or is below risk. Alexia Putellas (2021 and 2022 winner) and Aitana Bonmati (winner on the previous two ceremonies) are nonetheless in rivalry to gather the prize, however representatives from Arsenal and England threaten to finish the Iberian reign.

The winners might be introduced Sept. 22 in Paris, France.

2025 Males’s Ballon d’Or nominees

Paris Saint-Germain equaled Actual Madrid’s document of 9 nominations from 2018 after they lastly clinched the Champions League crown – with a 5-0 rout of Inter Milan, no much less – whereas profitable their eleventh French title in 13 years and hoisting the Coupe de France. Ousmane Dembele is a powerful contender to win the Ballon d’Or after he scored 32 targets and offered 13 assists throughout these three competitions.

2025 Girls’s Ballon d’Or nominees

Will a Girls’s Tremendous League participant win this time round? Chloe Kelly, Alessia Russo, and Leah Williamson are among the many 30 nominations after profitable the Champions League with Arsenal and Euro 2025 with England. The trio counts 4 extra membership colleagues and two further England teammates within the checklist. Though it is not possible to rule out Bonmati and Putellas, there’s an opportunity {that a} non-European participant wins the award whereas 4 different continents are represented, with the bubbling Marta and Amanda Gutierres among the many standouts after they helped Brazil win one other Copa America Femenina title. There are solely two People nominated.

Kopa Trophy nominees

No prizes for selecting the frontrunner in the perfect younger males’s participant class. Eighteen-year-old phenom Lamine Yamal is not simply producing on a special stratosphere when in comparison with his rivals, he is additionally placing collectively numbers that far outweigh these tallied by Messi and Ronaldo on the identical age.

Yachine Trophy nominees

Every participant among the many greatest males’s goalkeeper nominees has been in rivalry for the dignity earlier than. Emiliano Martinez is the one one to have received the trophy twice (2023 and 2024), however Paris Saint-Germain’s Gianluigi Donnarumma could match his haul after he final collected the award in 2021. Alisson Becker (2019) and Thibaut Courtois (2022) are additionally earlier winners.

Yohann Cruyff Trophy

It is simply the second yr that these awards might be handed out and we’re set for 2 extra first-time winners after the pair acknowledged in 2024, Carlo Ancelotti and Emma Hayes, weren’t nominated. Luis Enrique is a powerful favourite to win the lads’s award after steering Paris Saint-Germain to the treble. Sarina Wiegman and Renee Slegers will presumably battle it out for the ladies’s award following their spectacular exploits in command of England and Arsenal, respectively.

Males’s crew coach of the yr

Girls’s crew coach of the yr