“Prepare to be dazzled”warned the X account of the Ballon d'Or the day before. On Monday afternoon, the L'Equipe group formalized the date of the Golden Ball 2025 ceremony. The Grand Gala organized in Paris will once again take place at the Châtelet Theater, in the center of the capital, from September 22, while the suspense ended in October in recent years (and even on October 30 and 28 for the last two editions).
The 69th award ceremony created by France Football will offer three more secondary titles since, in addition to the Ballon d'Or and the Cruyff Trophies (best coaches), the Kopa Trophy (under 21), the Yachine Trophy (best goalkeeper) and the Gerd Müller trophy (top scorer in the high level) will also have their female declination.
All the nominees (and so named) will be revealed in the first half of August, probably live on the L'Equipe channel as in recent years. For the list of 30 nominated for the Ballon d'Or 2025, the results and performance during the Club World Cup in the United States (June 14-July 13) will therefore be taken into account. This could play in favor of a Kylian Mbappé absent from the Champions League final.
The Ballon d'Or according to individual performance
Like last year, journalists of France Football
will establish the list of the 30 nominees, who will then be subject to the jury of 100 international journalists (one per country of the Top 100 in the world ranking FIFA). “Each journalist must elect a top 10, each place of which gives points to the designated player”precise The team.
The three criteria for voting the Ballon d'Or remain the same as last year. In 1, these are “Individual performances and the decisive and impressive character”. This could tip the scale in favor of Lamine Yamal at the expense of Ousmane Dembélé. The second criterion is “The collective aspect and the trophies won” and the third
“Class and fair play”.
