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The Ballon d’Or went to a brand new residence once more this yr, as Paris Saint-Germain and France star Ousmane Dembele beat Lamine Yamal to the glory of high participant in males’s soccer for the 2024-25 season.
Rodri, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, and Luka Modric have been all off the shortlist and the one gamers to win the award since Kaka took residence the glory in 2007.
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[ MORE: Who should win the Ballon d’Or 2024? ]
For the fourth-straight season, the award honored the very best participant from the 2024-25 season as a substitute of the calendar yr..
Who has received extra Ballons d’Or: Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo?
Messi has received probably the most Ballons d’Or ever: 8. Ronaldo has the second-most with 5.
What number of gamers have received a number of Ballons d’Or?
After Messi’s eight and Ronaldo’s 5, there are three gamers who’ve received three awards — Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff, and Marco van Basten — and 5 gamers have claimed two. These gamers are Franz Beckenbauer, Ronaldo, Alfredo Di Stefano, Kevin Keegan, and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
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Checklist of all Ballon d’Or winners: 1961-present
1956: Stanley Matthews — Blackpool and England
1957: Alfredo di Stafano – Actual Madrid and Spain
1958: Raymond Kopa — Actual Madrid and France
1959: Alfredo Di Stefano (2) – Actual Madrid and Spain
1960: Luis Suarez – Barcelona and Spain
1961: Omar Sivori – Juventus and Italy
1962: Josef Masopust – Dukla Prague and Czechoslovakia
1963: Lev Yashin — Dynamo Moscow and USSR
1964: Denis Regulation — Manchester United and Scotland
1965: Eusebio – Benfica and Portugal
1966: Bobby Charlton — Manchester United and England
1967: Florian Albert — Ferencvaros and Hungary
1968: George Finest — Manchester United and Northern Eire
1969: Gianni Rivera — AC Milan and Italy
1970: Gerd Muller — Bayern Munich and Germany
1971: Johan Cruyff — Ajax and Netherlands
1972: Franz Beckenbauer – Bavaria Munich and West Germany
1973: Johan Cruyff (2) — Barcelona and Netherlands
1974: Johan Cruyff (3) — Barcelona and Netherlands
1975: Og Blockhin — Dynamo Kyiv and USSR
1976: Franz Beckenbauer (2) – Bavaria Munich and West Germany
1977: Allan Simonsen — Borussia Monchengladbach and Denmark
1978: Kevin Keegan — Hamburg and England
1979: Kevin Keegan (2) — Hamburg and England
1980: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge-Bavaria Munich and West Germany
1981: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (2)-Bavaria Munich and West Germany
1982: Paolo Rossi — Juventus and Italy
1983: Michel Platini — France and Juventus
1984: Michel Platini (2) — France and Juventus
1985: Michel Platini (3) — France and Juventus
1986: Igor Belanov – Dynamo Kyiv and USSR
1987: Ruud Gullit — AC Milan and Netherlands
1988: Marco van Basten – AC Milan and Netherlands
1989: Marco van Basten (2) – AC Milan and Netherlands
1990: Lothar Matthaus — Inter Milan and Germany
1991: Jean-Pierre Papin-Marseille and France
1992: Marco van Basten (3) – AC Milan and Netherlands
1993: Roberto Baggio – Juventus and Italy
1994: Hristo Stoichkov – Barcelona and Bulgaria
1995: George Weah — AC Milan and Liberia
1996: Matthias Sammer – Borussia Dortmund and Germany
1997: Ronaldo — Inter Milan and Brazil
1998: Zinedine Zidane — Juventus and France
1999: Rivaldo — Barcelona and Brazil
2000: Luis Figo – Actual Madrid and Portugal
2001: Michael Owen — Liverpool and England
2002: Ronaldo (2) — Actual Madrid and Brazil
2003: Pavel Nedved — Juventus and Czech Republic
2004: Andriy Shevchenko – AC Milan and Ukraine
2005: Ronaldinho — Barcelona and Brazil
2006: Fabio Cannavaro — Actual Madrid and Italy
2007: Kaka — AC Milan and Brazil
2008: Cristiano Ronaldo — Manchester United and Portugal
2009: Lionel Messi — Barcelona and Argentina
2010: Lionel Messi (2) — Barcelona and Argentina
2011: Lionel Messi (3) — Barcelona and Argentina
2012: Lionel Messi (4) — Barcelona and Argentina
2014: Cristiano Ronaldo (3) – Actual Madrid and Portugal
2020: Not awarded as a result of COVID-19 pandemic
2022: Karim Benzema — Actual Madrid and France
2025: Ousmane Dembele — Paris Saint-Germain and France
