The 2025 Ballon d’Or award has revealed its 30 nominees. Due to his exclusion from this year’s shortlist, Argentina legend Lionel Messi will not have the chance to win the award for a record-breaking ninth time. Despite Portugal won the UEFA Nations League, Cristiano Ronaldo has also been left off.
The current favourites for the coveted individual prize are Barcelona’s teenage wonder Lamine Yamal and Paris Saint-Germain’s Ousmane Dembele. Other names in the mix are Mohamed Salah of Liverpool and Egypt, Vitinha of PSG and Portugal, and Raphinha of Barcelona and Brazil.
Scott McTominay of Napoli and Cole Palmer of Chelsea are two of the outsiders nominated for the Ballon d’Or. Palmer was crucial to Chelsea’s FIFA Club World Cup victory, and McTominay won Serie A MVP for leading Napoli to just their fourth Scudetto in history.
List of 2025 Ballon d’Or Nominees: Verified list of athletes eligible to receive the 2025 Ballon d’Or
The complete list of 2025 Ballon d’Or nominees is provided below. On August 7, the Ballon d’Or’s official X (Twitter) account verified the nominees.
List of 2025 Ballon d’Or Nominees
The player
Club
Country of origin
Dembele Ousmane
PSG
France
Diane Rumma Gianluigi
PSG
Italy
Bellingham, Jude
Real Madrid
England
Desire Doue
PSG
France
Dumfries, Denzel
Milan Inter
The Netherlands
Guirassy Serhou
Dortmund Borussia
Guinea
Haaland, Erling
Man City
Norway
Gyokeres, Viktor
The Arsenal
Sweden
Hakimi Achraf
PSG
Morocco
Kane, Harry
The Bayern Munich
England
Kvaratskhelia Khvicha
PSG
Georgia
Lewandowski, Robert
Barcelona
Poland
Allister, Alexis Mac
Liverpool
Argentina
Martinez, Lautaro
Milan Inter
Argentina
McTominay, Scott
Napoli
Scotland
Mbappe Kylian
Real Madrid
France
Mendes Nuno
PSG
Portugal
Neves, Joao
PSG
Portugal
Pedri
Barcelona
Spain
Palmer, Cole
Chelsea
England
Olise, Michael
The Bayern Munich
France
Raphinha
Barcelona
Brazil
Rice, Declan
The Arsenal
England
Ruiz Fabian
PSG
Spain
Van Dijk, Virgil
Liverpool
The Netherlands
Vinicius Jr.
Real Madrid
Brazil
Salah Mohamed
Liverpool
Egypt
Wirtz, Florian
Liverpool
Germany
The Vitinha
PSG
Portugal
Yamal Lamine
Barcelona
Spain
2025 Ballon d’Or Date
This year’s winner will be announced in September
The 2025 Ballon d’Or winner will be revealed on September 22 during an event held at Paris, France’s Theatre du Chatelet. This year’s Ballon d’Or ceremony will be the 69th edition.
According to UEFA’s official site: ‘The 2025 awards will include the Men’s and Women’s Ballon d’Or, Men’s and Women’s Kopa Trophy (best young player), Men’s and Women’s Yashin Trophy (best goalkeeper), Men’s and Women’s Gerd Muller Trophy (top scorer in club/national team), Men’s and Women’s Johan Cruyff Trophy (best coach in club/national team), Men’s and Women’s Club of the Year, and Socrates Award, presented by L’Équipe group and Peace and Sport, for solidarity actions or societal
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