Ousmane Dembele edged out Lamine Yamal to win the 2025 males’s Ballon d’Or, whereas Aitana Bonmati made historical past.
Dembele contributed to 46 targets throughout all competitions in 2024-25, scoring 33 occasions and offering 13 assists as Paris Saint-Germain swept all earlier than them, successful Ligue 1, the Coupe de France, and the Champions League.
Of these objective involvements, 33 (25 targets, eight assists) got here between January 1 and the top of final time period, as Dembele loved a shocking second half of the season.
Treble-winning PSG boss Luis Enrique gained the Johan Cruyff Trophy as he was named males’s coach of the yr, finishing a effective night time for the European champions, who had been additionally named because the world’s greatest membership.
The very first image of our new Ballon d’Or!
OUSMANE DEMBÉLÉ! #ballondor pic.twitter.com/CKvDECZX63
— Ballon d’Or (@ballondor) September 22, 2025
PSG boss Luis Enrique couldn’t be in attendance as his workforce confronted Marseille in Ligue 1 in a rearranged fixture, with the European champions succumbing to a 1-0 defeat.
Yamal, who has scored 20 targets and supplied 23 assists throughout all competitions for Barca for the reason that begin of final season, whereas additionally scoring 3 times in seven appearances for Spain within the 2024-25 Nations League, completed second within the voting.
Dembele’s team-mate Vitinha positioned third, forward of Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah in fourth and Barca ahead Raphinha in fifth.
Two extra PSG gamers, Achraf Hakimi and Nuno Mendes, completed within the high 10, whereas two of their former stars, Kylian Mbappe and Gianluigi Donnarumma, had been seventh and ninth respectively, both facet of Chelsea’s Cole Palmer.
Barcelona star Bonmati, in the meantime, turned the primary lady to win the Ballon d’Or on three events, as she retained the prize for a 3rd straight yr.
Aitana Bonmatí, 3 times in a row! Are you able to consider it? #ballondor pic.twitter.com/qT53wjKiSV
— Ballon d’Or (@ballondor) September 22, 2025
The 27-year-old performed a key function in one other league title triumph for Barca, whereas additionally main Spain to the Euro 2025 last. She joins Lionel Messi (2010, 2011 and 2012) and Michel Platini (1983, 1984 and 1985).
Bonmati topped the voting forward of Arsenal pair Mariona Caldentey and Alessia Russo, with two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas in fourth and England’s Euro 2025 hero Chloe Kelly putting fifth.
Yamal did scoop one of many night time’s main prizes, as he turned the primary male participant to win the Kopa Award in back-to-back years.
Having completed forward of PSG duo Want Doue and Joao Neves for the award, Yamal mentioned: “It’s an honour to be right here once more. I’d additionally wish to thank my membership Barcelona, in addition to the nationwide workforce, as a result of with out them I’d not be right here.”
One other of Barca’s teenage sensations additionally gained the inaugural girls’s Kopa Trophy, with 19-year-old Vicky Lopez taking the prize.
Manchester Metropolis’s new goalkeeper Donnarumma gained the lads’s Yashin Trophy, having performed an important function in PSG’s success final time period.
The Italian was significantly spectacular within the Champions League, retaining six clear sheets and conceding 14 targets in 15 matches.
Hannah Hampton, whose penalty shootout heroics helped England retain their Ladies’s Euros crown, clinched the ladies’s award.
The Chelsea goalkeeper conceded simply 27% of the penalties she confronted at Euro 2025 (3/11), the bottom fee on document (since 2011) in a single version of both the Ladies’s World Cup or the Ladies’s Euros (minimal eight penalties confronted).
27% – Hannah Hampton conceded simply 27% of the penalties she confronted at #EURO2025 (3/11), the bottom fee on document (since 2011) in a single version of both the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup or the UEFA Ladies’s EURO (min. 8 penalties confronted). Unfazed. pic.twitter.com/HrzYHcIN1T
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) July 28, 2025
Hampton’s England supervisor Sarina Wiegman gained the Johan Cruyff Trophy for the most effective girls’s coach.
Wiegman’s England workforce turned simply the second facet to retain the Ladies’s Euros title, after Germany.
The Dutchwoman has gained three straight Euros, after lifting the trophy with the Netherlands in 2017 earlier than guiding the Lionesses to glory in 2022 and 2025. She turned simply the third supervisor to win the competitors 3 times.
“What an honour to get this award after a really particular summer time, and much more of an insane match we had on the Euros in Switzerland,” mentioned Wiegman.
“To start with I want to thank the gamers, the employees, the FA and my household for the onerous work, the belief and the unconditional assist. With out you I’d not be standing right here.
“The ladies’s recreation has grown to date we have now damaged information. I’d additionally wish to thank Switzerland for organising the Euros as a result of it was completely insane.
“This isn’t only a private honour. I see it as a recognition of the ladies’s recreation, of our journey and the place we have now come to date.”
Arsenal, who shocked Barcelona to win the Ladies’s Champions League, had been named Ladies’s Membership of the 12 months.
Viktor Gyokeres picked up the lads’s Gerd Muller Trophy, having netted 54 targets in simply 52 appearances for membership and nation final season.
Ewa Pajor, the Barcelona and Poland striker, gained the ladies’s Gerd Muller Trophy.
Viktor Gyökeres! #ballondor pic.twitter.com/KT6y11Smry
— Ballon d’Or (@ballondor) September 22, 2025
Full Listing of Ballon d’Or Winners 2025
Males’s Ballon d’Or – Ousmane Dembele (PSG/France)
Ladies’s Ballon d’Or – Aitana Bonmati (Barcelona/Spain)
Males’s Johan Cruyff Trophy – Luis Enrique (PSG)
Ladies’s Johan Cruyff Trophy – Sarina Wiegman (England)
Males’s Kopa Trophy – Lamine Yamal (Barcelona/Spain)
Ladies’s Kopa Trophy – Vicky Lopez (Barcelona/Spain)
Males’s Yashin Trophy – Gianluigi Donnarumma (Man Metropolis/Italy)
Males’s Gerd Muller Trophy – Viktor Gyokeres (Arsenal/Sweden)
Ladies’s Gerd Muller Trophy – Ewa Pajor (Barcelona/Poland)
