Soccer’s largest stars gathered in Paris on Monday evening for the 2025 Ballon d’Or ceremony, held on the Théâtre du Châtelet, the place the very best gamers, golf equipment, and coaches of the 2024/25 season have been celebrated.
France and Paris Saint-Germain ahead Ousmane Dembele received the boys’s Ballon d’Or, a very powerful particular person prize in soccer.
It’s the first time Dembele has acquired the award, after a superb season with PSG and the French nationwide crew.
Within the ladies’s class, Aitana Bonmati of Spain and Barcelona confirmed her place as the very best on the planet by successful her third straight ladies’s Ballon d’Or.
Her creativity and management have made her a key determine for each membership and nation.
The evening additionally honoured the following technology of expertise. Barcelona teenager Lamine Yamal picked up the Kopa Trophy for the very best younger male participant, whereas Germany’s Elena Fischer received the ladies’s model of the award.
Goalkeepers have been additionally recognised. Chelsea and England star Hannah Hampton made historical past by turning into the primary winner of the Girls’s Yashin Trophy, whereas Brazil’s Alisson Becker of Liverpool took residence the boys’s prize as soon as once more.
The Gerd Müller Trophy for the season’s high purpose scorer went to Arsenal striker Viktor Gyökeres, who had a standout yr in entrance of purpose.
For golf equipment, Paris Saint-Germain have been named Males’s Membership of the 12 months, whereas Arsenal Girls claimed the Girls’s Membership of the 12 months award.
Not like within the final two editions when Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman gave Nigeria a good end on the Ballon d’Or rankings, no Tremendous Eagles participant was listed within the high 30 this time.
There was nonetheless one thing to cheer as Nigeria’s Chiamaka Cynthia Nnadozie confirmed her place among the many finest goalkeepers on the planet after ending fourth within the 2025 Girls’s Yashin Trophy on the Ballon d’Or Awards in Paris.
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The Girls’s Yashin Trophy, launched this yr to honour the world’s high feminine goalkeepers, was received by England’s Hannah Hampton of Chelsea
With emotional speeches, star-studded appearances, and recognition of soccer’s finest abilities, the 69th Ballon d’Or ceremony as soon as once more confirmed why it’s the sport’s most prestigious awards evening.
