{"id":885284,"date":"2026-09-09T05:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885284\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T05:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:10:15","slug":"harry-kane-and-alessia-russo-among-nominees-for-this-years-ballon-dor-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885284\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Kane and Alessia Russo among nominees for this year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or | Ballon d’Or"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham and Declan Rice have been nominated for this year\u2019s men\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or with Alessia Russo and Alex Greenwood nominated for the women\u2019s award.<\/p>\n

The 30 men\u2019s and 30 women\u2019s nominees were revealed by France Football magazine on Tuesday, with the winners to be announced at a ceremony in London on 26 October. Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, who won the men\u2019s award last year, has been nominated again, as has his France teammate Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/a>, who made history when he overtook Lionel Messi for all-time World Cup goals (22) at this summer\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n

In the women\u2019s field, two-time winner Alexia Putellas, Ewa Pajor and Melchie Dumornay are among the favourites to succeed Aitana Bonmat\u00ed. Winner of the past three awards, Bonmat\u00ed did not make the cut after missing most of the season through injury. The Spaniard returned at the end of Barcelona\u2019s quadruple-winning season that included another Champions League title.<\/p>\n

Kane is odds-on to win the men\u2019s award after a club-record 61 goals in 51 games for German double winners Bayern Munich last season. He also scored six times at the World Cup for England, a tournament where Bellingham and Rice shone as well, the latter also playing a key role in Arsenal ending a 22-year wait for the Premier League title.<\/p>\n

Quick GuideBallon d’Or nominees: the full listShow<\/p>\n

Men’s award <\/p>\n

Jude Bellingham, Pau Cubars\u00ed, Marc Cucurella, Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, Luis D\u00edaz, Bruno Fernandes, Gabriel, Erling Haaland, Achraf Hakimi, Harry Kane, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Lamine Yamal, Sadio Man\u00e9, Marquinhos, Lautaro Mart\u00ednez, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, Nuno Mendes, Lionel Messi, Jo\u00e3o Neves, Michael Olise, Willian Pacho, Juli\u00e1n Qui\u00f1ones, Declan Rice, Rodri, Fabi\u00e1n Ruiz, William Saliba, Ferran Torres, Dayot Upamecano, Vin\u00edcius Jr., Vitinha.<\/p>\n

Women’s award <\/p>\n

Selma Bacha, Barbra Banda, Klara Buhl, Esmee Brugts, Mariona Caldentey, Scarlett Camberos, Kerstin Casparij, Temwa Chawinga, Cata Coll, Melchie Dumornay, Caroline Graham Hansen, Alex Greenwood, Patri Guijarro, Pernille Harder, Yui Hasegawa, Rose Lavelle, Mapi Le\u00f3n, Lorena, Melvine Malard, Manaka Matsukubo, Vivianne Miedema, Ewa Pajor, Claudia Pina, Alexia Putellas, Wendie Renard, Alessia Russo, Khadija Shaw, Momoko Tanikawa, Caroline Weir, Tessa Wullaert.<\/p>\n

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Lamine Yamal, who won La Liga with Barcelona and the World Cup with Spain, is second favourite to win the award, followed by his club and international teammate Rodri. Messi, who has a record eight Ballon d\u2019Or awards, is on the shortlist after guiding Argentina to the World Cup final and winning Major League Soccer with Inter Miami.<\/p>\n

Russo finished third in last year\u2019s voting and enjoyed another successful individual campaign, scoring 24 goals in 40 club appearances. Greenwood, the Manchester City captain, lifted the Women\u2019s Super League and FA Cup last season.<\/p>\n

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The Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony is moving from its traditional Paris home to London this year to mark the 70th anniversary of the first award won by England great Stanley Matthews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham and Declan Rice have been nominated for this year\u2019s men\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or with Alessia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-885284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}