The Best FIFA Awards: Dembele, Bonmati collect top prizes

The winners of The Greatest FIFA Awards 2025 had been revealed earlier than and in the course of the FIFA Celebration Dinner in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday.

For the awards recognizing one of the best participant, goalkeeper, and coach, votes from nationwide staff coaches, nationwide staff captains, journalists, and followers had been weighted equally. The best objectives and greatest XIs had been decided by votes from supporters and a gaggle of appointed FIFA legends.

The awards acknowledge excellence in soccer between Aug. 11, 2024 and Aug. 2, 2025.

Greatest Males’s Participant

Ousmane Dembele (Paris Saint-Germain and France)

Dembele shifted to a central attacking place halfway by way of final season, and the transfer was impressed. The Frenchman scored 33 objectives and offered 13 assists throughout all competitions as Paris Saint-Germain hoarded trophies within the 2024-25 season.

He boasted 14 purpose contributions (eight objectives and 6 assists) en path to Champions League glory, completed joint-top scorer in Ligue 1 with 21 strikes throughout PSG’s victorious marketing campaign, and weighed in with key objectives in the course of the staff’s Coupe de France and Trophee des Champions successes.

Dembele additionally gained the Ballon d’Or in September.

Crushed nominees: Achraf Hakimi, Harry Kane, Kylian Mbappe, Nuno Mendes, Cole Palmer, Pedri, Raphinha, Mohamed Salah, Vitinha, Lamine Yamal

Greatest Girls’s Participant

Aitana Bonmati (Barcelona and Spain)

Spanish icon Bonmati missed out on Euro 2025 glory following a heartbreaking defeat to England within the remaining, however she nonetheless swept up the Primera Division title, the Copa de la Reina, and the Supercopa de Espana with Barcelona.

Her intricate footwork, imaginative and prescient, and immense tactical intelligence proceed to bewitch viewers and had been sufficient to earn her the award regardless of robust competitors from the likes of Mariona Caldentey, membership and worldwide teammate Alexia Putellas, and members of England’s Euro 2025-winning squad.

Bonmati has gained the highest ladies’s honor at each The Greatest FIFA Awards and Ballon d’Or ceremony for 3 straight years.

Crushed nominees: Sandy Baltimore, Nathalie Bjorn, Lucy Bronze, Mariona Caldentey, Temwa Chawinga, Kadidiatou Diani, Melchie Dumornay, Patri Guijarro, Lindsey Heaps, Lauren James, Chloe Kelly, Ewa Pajor, Claudia Pina, Alexia Putellas, Alessia Russo, Leah Williamson

Greatest Males’s Coach

Luis Enrique (Paris Saint-Germain)

Who else? Luis Enrique was a robust favourite to gather this piece of silverware after he shook up Paris Saint-Germain’s id – ditching the membership’s superstar-centered method for a stronger staff focus – and gained the Champions League, Ligue 1, Coupe de France, and Trophee des Champions. PSG additionally completed second ultimately summer season’s Membership World Cup.

Crushed nominees: Hansi Flick, Enzo Maresca, Roberto Martinez, Arne Slot

Greatest Girls’s Coach

Sarina Wiegman (England)

Wiegman is a pressure in worldwide administration. She’s gained the Girls’s European Championship on three events (as soon as with the Netherlands and twice with England) and has twice completed as runner-up on the Girls’s World Cup. The Dutch coach’s England staff upset the percentages to beat Spain within the Euro 2025 remaining.

Wiegman additionally gained FIFA’s greatest ladies’s coach award in 2017, 2020, 2022, and 2023.

Crushed nominees: Sonia Bompastor, Jonatan Giraldez, Seb Hines, Renee Slegers

Greatest Males’s Goalkeeper

Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain/Manchester Metropolis and Italy)

Donnarumma gained the highest goalkeeper prize for the primary time on the again of his gold rush with Paris Saint-Germain. The Italian shot-stopper was surprisingly deemed surplus to necessities by PSG head coach Luis Enrique after the French aspect gained the Champions League, Ligue 1, Coupe de France, and Trophee des Champions in the course of the 2024-25 marketing campaign.

Now with Manchester Metropolis, Donnarumma shall be hoping to play at his first World Cup subsequent summer season. Italy wants to beat Northern Eire after which Wales or Bosnia and Herzegovina within the European playoffs to succeed in the match for the primary time since 2014.

Crushed nominees: Alisson Becker, Thibaut Courtois, Emiliano Martinez, Manuel Neuer, David Raya, Yann Sommer, Wojciech Szczesny

Greatest Girls’s Goalkeeper

Hannah Hampton (Chelsea and England)

Hampton’s repute soared at Euro 2025 courtesy of her excellent distribution and, most notably, her magnificent stops in open play and through penalty shootouts.

The 25-year-old additionally secured hero standing together with her capacity to beat obstacles and her mischievousness. She was informed to keep away from taking part in sports activities as a teenager after surgical procedures to appropriate eye misalignment weren’t totally profitable, however now she’s deemed one of the best goalkeeper on the planet. She additionally threw the water bottle of her Spanish counterpart into the gang – subsequently ditching the penalty-taker notes on the aspect of it – in the course of the shootout within the Euro 2025 remaining.

Crushed nominees: Ann-Katrin Berger, Cata Coll, Christiane Endler, Anna Moorhouse, Chiamaka Nnadozie, Phallon Tullis-Joyce

Greatest Males’s XI

Greatest Girls’s XI

Puskas Award

Santiago Montiel (Independiente)

Montiel’s marvelous overhead kick was declared the best purpose within the males’s sport. The Argentine winger, who’s a cousin of World Cup winner Gonzalo Montiel, mentioned he “simply hit it” when requested about his glorious strike.

Marta Award

Lizbeth Ovalle (Tigres UANL)

Ovalle’s outrageous scorpion kick for Tigres in March took the prize for greatest purpose in ladies’s soccer. The Mexican winger turned the costliest feminine participant ever when she joined the Orlando Delight for round $1.5 million in August.