With a new victor guaranteed each year, the 2025 winner will be part of an alumni that includes Lionel Messi, Wayne Rooney, ...

Ajijic is known for its art, with some of its impressive works unveiled for the annual Regata de Globos, or Paper Balloon ...

BBC Sport profiles Chelsea and England goalkeeper Hannah Hampton, one of five nominees for the BBC Women's Footballer of the ...

Harry Kane in Ballon d’Or form as England leader sets sights on World Cup - Kane is in the form of his life ahead of what ...

France and PSG forward Ousmane Dembele scripted history as he recently won the Ballon d’Or 2025. Defeating the likes of Lamine Yamal, Vitinha, Mohamed Salah, and Raphinha for the prestigious award, ...

The Ballon d’Or stage in Paris saw Ousmane Dembele and Aitana Bonmatí crowned the best players in the world, capping off an evening of glittering awards and emotional speeches. Yet behind the glamour ...

The mind can play funny tricks but when Michael Owen won the Ballon d'Or in 2001 I don't remember anywhere near as much fuss as the current iteration of the award. It seemed to take on a new level of ...

Jamie Carragher reckons Mohamed Salah likely would have finally won the Ballon d'Or this year if Liverpool had triumphed over Paris Saint-Germain in last season's Champions League. Instead, the Reds ...

Choosing the best footballers on the planet is an unenviable task. Aside from the fact that elevating individual players to superstardom in a quintessential team sport is fraught with pitfalls, France ...

It is almost a quarter of a century since Michael Owen won the Ballon d’Or, and the story of his coronation as Europe’s best footballer belongs to a different era. Word of the young forward’s ascent ...

Ousmane Dembele won the 2025 Ballon d’Or ahead Lamine Yamal. Dembele was the favourite to win the award for the first time and did just that, with the Frenchman presented the award by Ronaldinho in ...

LaLiga president, Javier Tebas, has claimed that Barcelona winger Lamine Yamal was denied the 2025 Ballon d’Or because of his age. Tebas has however expressed his optimism that Yamal will soon win the ...