Ballon d’Or

Super Falcons striker Asisat Oshoala has been nominated for the 2022 women’s Ballon d’Or following her stellar season with Barcelona Femini in the Spanish League. Oshoala scored 20 goals in just 19 games to share the top scorer award…

Lionel Messi has on Monday, November 29 won the men’s Ballon d’Or award for a record-extending seventh time at a ceremony in Paris, France. Messi won the last edition of Ballon d’Or in 2019 before last year’s awards were cancelled due to…

Ballon d’Or ceremony is set to return in November after it was cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nominees for the various awards — which include naming a men’s and women’s player of the year — are set to be unveiled on…

France Football, organiser of the Ballon d’Or, has cancelled the 2020 edition of the award due to global impact of COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement on Monday, the organisers said the prestigious prize will not be handed out this…

Real Madrid forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, has won the 2017 Ballon d’Or prize. The 32-year-old was named the winner of France Football’s prestigious award at a ceremony in Paris on Thursday. Ronaldo had previously won the award in…

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo beat rival Lionel Messi to win the prestigious Ballon d'Or award for a fourth time. The 31-year-old is now one behind Barcelona's Messi, who took the honour for a fifth time last year. Atletico…

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona's Lionel Messi will today find out who gets bragging rights for the next year as the winner of the 2016 Ballon d'Or is revealed . The award, now separated from Fifa…