The 2025 Ballon d’Or occurred on September 22 on the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, celebrating the world’s finest footballers from the 2024/25 season. The night time highlighted the dominance of Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona, and Arsenal, who scooped up a lot of the main awards.
Ousmane Dembélé was topped the Males’s Ballon d’Or winner for the primary time, whereas Aitana Bonmatí cemented her legendary standing with a third consecutive Ladies’s Ballon d’Or. But, regardless of unprecedented home success, Chelsea Ladies had been left largely unrecognized, a call that has sparked debate about how Ballon d’Or voters weigh European competitions in opposition to season-long consistency throughout leagues and cups.
Males’s Ballon d’Or 2025: Prime 10 Rankings
Ousmane Dembélé (Paris Saint-Germain)
Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)
Vitinha (Paris Saint-Germain)
Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
Raphinha (Barcelona)
Achraf Hakimi (Paris Saint-Germain)
Kylian Mbappé (Actual Madrid)
Cole Palmer (Chelsea)
Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain)
Nuno Mendes (Paris Saint-Germain)
Ladies’s Ballon d’Or 2025: Prime 10 Rankings
Aitana Bonmatí (Barcelona)
Mariona Caldentey (Arsenal)
Alessia Russo (Arsenal)
Alexia Putellas (Barcelona)
Chloe Kelly (Arsenal)
Patri Guijarro (Barcelona)
Leah Williamson (Arsenal)
Ewa Pajor (Barcelona)
Lucy Bronze (Chelsea)
Hannah Hampton (Chelsea)
Different Main Ballon d’Or 2025 Awards
Kopa Trophy (Finest U21 Males’s Participant): Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)
Kopa Trophy (Finest U21 Ladies’s Participant): Vicky López (Barcelona)
Yashin Trophy (Finest Males’s Goalkeeper): Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain)
Yashin Trophy (Finest Ladies’s Goalkeeper): Hannah Hampton (Chelsea)
Gerd Müller Trophy (Males’s Prime Scorer): Viktor Gyökeres (Sporting CP)
Gerd Müller Trophy (Ladies’s Prime Scorer): Ewa Pajor (Barcelona)
Males’s Coach of the 12 months (Johan Cruyff Trophy): Luis Enrique (Paris Saint-Germain)
Ladies’s Coach of the 12 months: Sarina Wiegman
Males’s Membership of the 12 months: Paris Saint-Germain
Ladies’s Membership of the 12 months: Arsenal
Sócrates Award (Humanitarian / Social Work): Fundación XANA
PSG, Barcelona, and Arsenal’s Grip on the Awards
The ceremony underscored how PSG, Barcelona, and Arsenal have develop into the pillars of recent soccer dominance. PSG stacked the lads’s prime 10 with 5 gamers, together with Dembélé, Vitinha, Hakimi, Donnarumma, and Mendes. Barcelona not solely noticed Bonmatí and Putellas function prominently but additionally swept youth prizes with Yamal and Vicky López. Arsenal, in the meantime, noticed Russo, Caldentey, Williamson, and Kelly all rewarded for his or her roles in a powerful home and European season.
Chelsea Ladies’s Historic Season Neglected
Maybe essentially the most obvious omission got here with Chelsea Ladies. The Blues went unbeaten within the league and received each home trophy accessible in England, an achievement unmatched anyplace in Europe through the 2024/25 season. But, solely Lucy Bronze and Hannah Hampton featured within the Ladies’s Ballon d’Or prime 10, whereas Arsenal was as an alternative named Ladies’s Membership of the 12 months.
This raised questions on whether or not the Ballon d’Or stays overly weighted towards Champions League and Euros performances, on the expense of constant home dominance. For Chelsea, their flawless English marketing campaign stands as one of many season’s most exceptional tales, even when the Paris stage didn’t mirror it.
