Today, September 22, at 21:00 Kyiv time, the 69th Ballon d’Or award ceremony will take place in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. The prestigious trophy is awarded annually to the best football player in the world based on the season’s results, reports Baltimore Chronicle.
The nominees for the 2025 Ballon d’Or are:
PSG (France): Ousmane Dembélé, Désiré Doué, João Neves, Vitinha, Nuno Mendes, Fabián Ruiz, Achraf Hakimi, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
Real Madrid: Kylian Mbappé, Jude Bellingham, Vinícius Júnior
Barcelona: Lamine Yamal, Pedri, Rafinha
Liverpool: Mohamed Salah, Alexis Mac Allister, Florian Wirtz, Virgil van Dijk
Inter Milan: Denzel Dumfries, Lautaro Martínez
Arsenal: Viktor Gyökeres, Declan Rice
Manchester City: Erling Haaland
Bayern Munich: Michael Olise, Harry Kane
Chelsea: Cole Palmer
Borussia Dortmund: Serge Gnabry
The ceremony will be available for online viewing. The official broadcaster of the 2025 Ballon d’Or in Ukraine is the MEGOGO media service. The event can be watched for free on the “MEGOGO SPORT” TV channel via T2 and cable networks, as well as on the “MEGOGO SPORT” YouTube channel.
The main favorites for the award are Ousmane Dembélé, the French forward of PSG who helped the team win the Champions League and claim the national championship; Lamine Yamal, Barcelona’s young talent who impressed with his performance and scoring; and Kylian Mbappé, the Real Madrid star who continues to demonstrate top-level football.
Earlier we wrote that UAF comments on rumors of Mykhailo Mudryk switching to athletics and competing at the 2028 Olympics.