France Football magazine has revealed the list of 30 footballers who will compete for the 2025 Ballon d’Or, which is headed by PSG with Ousmane Dembele, the favourite, along with Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)
Paris Saint-Germain, who won the treble with Ligue 1, the Coupe de France and the Champions League, as well as being runners-up in the Club World Cup, is the team with the most players represented with nine, while four are from Barcelona and three from Real Madrid
Complete list of Ballon d’Or 2025 players and clubs
The most notable absentee from the 30 nominees is the winner of the 2024 edition, Rodri Hernandez, although this is due to the long absence he had through injury with Manchester City
It should be remembered that the 2025 Ballon d’Or gala will take place on September 22 at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, where it will finally be known who will win the most coveted prize in world football
It is unknown whether there will be representation from Real Madridafter they were absent last year because they felt it was unfair that Vinicius Jr did not win it
- Ousmane Dembele (PSG)
- Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG)
- Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid)
- Desire Doue (PSG)
- Denzel Dumfries (Inter Milan)
- Erling Haaland (Manchester City)
- Serhou Guirassy (Borussia Dortmund)
- Viktor Gyokeres (Arsenal)
- Harry Kane (Bayern Munich)
- Achraf Hakimi (PSG)
- Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (PSG)
- Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)
- Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona)
- Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool)
- Lautaro Martinez (Inter)
- Scott McTominay (Napoli)
- Kylian Mbappe (Real Madrid)
- Nuno Mendes (PSG)
- Joao Neves (PSG)
- Pedri (Barcelona)
- Cole Palmer (Chelsea)
- Michael Olise (Bayern)
- Raphinha (Barcelona)
- Declan Rice (Arsenal)
- Fabian Ruiz (PSG)
- Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
- Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid)
- Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
- Florian Wirtz (Liverpool)
- Vitinha (PSG)
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