Golden ball 2025, it's up to you!
Pending the announcement of the list of nominees, from 12:45 pm, the editorial team offers you to elect your 2025 Golden Ball. Several PSG players appear in our selection, to start obviously with Ousmane Dembélé. Lamine Yamal, who has also made a big season with FC Barcelona, will deprive him of the coronation? It's up to you to vote in the survey below!
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Meet at 12:45 pm for the first names
It's D -Day! This Thursday, thirty players will be officially candidates for the succession of Rodri at the Ballon d'Or list. But other trophies will also be awarded during this 2025 edition, whose ceremony will take place on September 22 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Here is the program of the day, which will start at 12:45 pm with the announcement of the finalists for the Kopa female trophy.
2025 Golden Ball, the program for the announcement of the nominees
- 12:45 p.m.: Female Kopa Trophy (Best Hope -21 years old)
- 1:00 p.m.: Male Kopa Trophy (Best Hope of 21 years old)
- 1:15 p.m.: Female yachine trophy (best goalkeeper)
- 1:30 p.m.: Male yachine trophy (best goalkeeper)
- 1:45 p.m.: Female Cruyff Trophy (Best Coach)
- 2:00 p.m.: Male Cruyff Trophy (Best Coach)
- 2:15 p.m.: Best clubs in the women's season
- 2:30 p.m.: Best clubs in the male season
- 3:15 p.m.: Female golden ball (best player)
- 3.30 p.m.: Male golden ball (best player)
On which channel to follow the announcement of the names live?
Unlike previous years, the list announcement will not be followed live on television. So the L'Equipe channel had become used to revealing the thirty finalists in a program at the end of the afternoon, it is exclusively on the site of the sports daily that all the protagonists of this 69th edition of the Ballon d'Or will be revealed this time. And this, from midday.
Ballon d'Or 2025, how many Parisians in the list?
A change in the criteria of the Ballon d'Or
To decide between the candidates, the magazine France Football has discreetly modified its evaluation criteria this year. A larger place is now granted to the collective influence of the player, to its ability to improve the team, beyond its individual statistics. A slight change that could be decisive in the final ranking of this 2025 golden ball.
Leadership, game intelligence and impact in the great moments will therefore weigh as much as the goals marked and the trophies won. But the regulations remain generally unchanged. The three aspects evaluated by the jury, made up of journalists from around the world, are always, in order: individual performance, collective trophies, then class and fair play.
Official criteria
- Individual performance
- Collective charts
- Class and fair play
How many PSG players among the 30 nominees?
Author of a fabulous quadrupled with Ligue 1, the French Cup, the Champions Trophy and the first Champions League in its history, PSG will be well represented among candidates for the Ballon d'Or. As a big favorite, Ousmane Dembélé will be retained, but Achraf Hakimi, Vitinha, Nuno Mendes, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Désiré Doué and Joao Neves also postulate.
A first name has already leaked!
According to journalist Sam Cohen, Scott Mctominay will be among the thirty nominees. The Scottish midfielder (28 years old) comes out of a very good season with Naples. Sacred champion of Italy, the former Manchester United player scored 16 goals and delivered 4 assists in all competitions, winning the title of best player from the financial year 2024-2025 in Serie A.
