Paris Saint-Germain celebrated a historic night on the 69th Ballon d’Or, with Ousmane Dembélé profitable the lads’s prize and the membership named Club of the Year.
Paris Saint-Germain’s French ahead Ousmane Dembele and Barcelona’s Aitana Bonmati pose after receiving the Ballon d’Or awards(AFP)
The ceremony at Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet on Monday night noticed Dembélé declare his first main particular person honor after main PSG to their maiden UEFA Champions League title alongside their home success in Ligue 1 and Coupe de France. The 28-year-old French winger’s emotional acceptance speech drew thunderous applause from a partisan dwelling crowd.
In the ladies’s class, Aitana Bonmatí made historical past of her personal, changing into the primary participant to win three consecutive Ballon d’Or Awards. The 26-year-old midfielder drove Barcelona to a home treble and the Women’s Champions League last whereas serving to Spain attain the EURO 2025 last.
Youth excellence and new milestones
Barcelona’s teenage sensation Lamine Yamal, 18, grew to become the primary participant to win the lads’s Kopa Trophy twice, ending as runner-up for the primary Ballon d’Or. His clubmate, Vicky López, 19, claimed the inaugural girls’s Kopa Trophy, making it a Barcelona double within the youth classes.
The goalkeeping honors went to Gianluigi Donnarumma, who earned the lads’s Yashin Trophy for his performances with PSG. England’s Hannah Hampton captured the inaugural girls’s Yashin Trophy following Chelsea’s WSL title and England’s profitable EURO 2025 protection.
Coaching excellence and goal-scoring honors
Luis Enrique received the lads’s Johan Cruyff Trophy for masterminding PSG’s historic Champions League conquest. England’s Sarina Wiegman claimed the ladies’s teaching award after guiding the Lionesses to back-to-back European Championships.
In the goal-scoring classes, Viktor Gyökeres earned the lads’s Gerd Müller trophy with a rare 54 objectives in 52 video games for Sporting CP earlier than his transfer to Arsenal. Barcelona’s Ewa Pajor claimed the ladies’s equal with 43 objectives in 46 appearances final season.
Club recognition and humanitarian honor
PSG and Arsenal have been named males’s and girls’s golf equipment of the 12 months, respectively, with PSG celebrating their European breakthrough and Arsenal their Women’s Champions League success. The prestigious Socrates award was offered to the Xana Foundation, created by Luis Enrique in reminiscence of his daughter, to help youngsters with life-threatening illnesses.
Complete checklist of award winners from Ballon d’Or 2025
Award Category | Winner | Club/Team | Country |
| Men’s Ballon d’Or | Ousmane Dembélé | Paris Saint-Germain | France |
| Women’s Ballon d’Or | Aitana Bonmatí | Barcelona | Spain |
| Men’s Kopa Trophy | Lamine Yamal | Barcelona | Spain |
| Women’s Kopa Trophy | Vicky López | Barcelona | Spain |
| Men’s Yashin Trophy | Gianluigi Donnarumma | Paris Saint-Germain | Italy |
| Women’s Yashin Trophy | Hannah Hampton | Chelsea | England |
| Men’s Gerd Müller Trophy | Viktor Gyökeres | Sporting CP | Sweden |
| Women’s Gerd Müller Trophy | Ewa Pajor | Barcelona | Poland |
| Men’s Coach (Johan Cruyff) | Luis Enrique | Paris Saint-Germain | Spain |
| Women’s Coach (Johan Cruyff) | Sarina Wiegman | England National Team | Netherlands |
| Men’s Club of the Year | Paris Saint-Germain | – | France |
| Women’s Club of the Year | Arsenal | – | England |
| Socrates Award | Xana Foundation | Humanitarian | Spain |
The ceremony marked a watershed second for ladies’s soccer, with three new classes celebrating their achievement. Notably absent was Real Madrid, who boycotted the occasion for the second consecutive 12 months following their dispute with France Football over the voting course of for 2024.
This 12 months’s expanded format, that includes each males’s and girls’s classes throughout all main awards, underscored soccer’s dedication to equality whereas PSG’s a number of honors cemented their emergence as a real European powerhouse.
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