said after winning the award<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI am pleased with my performances over the last year and the trophies I have won, but I know I can still improve and that\u2019s a major reason why I chose to move to Manchester City.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI am now fully focused on working with Pep Guardiola and his staff to develop my game even further and helping my new team to even more success.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gyokeres joins Haaland<\/p>\n
Gyokeres earns the prize after scoring a remarkable 54 goals in 52 matches for Portuguese side Sporting and for his national team Sweden.<\/p>\n
The trophy has been awarded to the highest-scoring footballer in the previous campaign, taking into account goals scored for both club and country.<\/p>\n
Earlier this summer, Gyokeres sealed a move to Arsenal and has since scored three Premier League goals in five appearances.<\/p>\n
Watch: Extended highlights of Gyokeres’ Arsenal home debut<\/p>\n
It is the second time a Premier League player has won the award, after Erling Haaland claimed the accolade for Manchester City in 2023, when he scored 56 times.<\/p>\n
Three Premier League players named in Ballon d\u2019Or top 10\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of the top 30 players to be nominated for the 2025 Ballon d\u2019Or, Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, Chelsea’s Cole Palmer and Donnarumma were named in the top 10.<\/p>\n
1. Ousmane Dembele (PSG)
2. Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)
3. Vitinha (PSG)
4. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
5. Raphinha (Barcelona)
6. Achraf Hakimi (PSG)
7. Kylian Mbappe (Real Madrid)
8. Cole Palmer (Chelsea)
9. Gianluigi Donnarumma (Man City)
10. Nuno Mendes (PSG)
11. Pedri (Barcelona)
12. Khvicha Kvaratskheila (PSG)
13. Harry Kane (Bayern Munich)
14. Desire Doue (PSG)
15. Viktor Gyokeres (Arsenal)
16. Vinicius Jr. (Real Madrid)
17. Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona)
18. Scott McTominay (Napoli)
19. Joao Neves (PSG)
20. Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan)
21. Serhou Guirassy (Borussia Dortmund)
22. Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool)
23. Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid)
24. Fabian Ruiz (PSG)
25. Denzel Dumfries (Inter Milan)
26. Erling Haaland (Man City)
27. Declan Rice (Arsenal)
28. Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
29. Florian Wirtz (Liverpool)
30. Michael Olise (Bayern Munich)<\/p>\n
Voting is carried out by one journalist from each of the top 100 FIFA nations for the men\u2019s award.<\/p>\n
Each journalist ranks 10 players, awarding 15 points for first place, followed by 12, 10, 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point.<\/p>\n
The judges are asked to consider three areas: Individual performance, decisiveness and impressiveness, their collective performance and track record as well as fair play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Salah, Palmer and Donnarumma were three of nine Premier League players out of 30 in total who were nominated for the award.<\/p>\n
The others from the Premier League were Erling Haaland (26th place), Declan Rice (27), Virgil van Dijk (28), Florian Wirtz (29), Alexis Mac Allister (22) and Gyokeres (15).<\/p>\n
Ballon d’Or 2025 winners<\/p>\n
The Ballon d’Or – Ousmane Dembele
The Women’s Ballon d’Or – Aitana Bonmati
The Men’s Yashin Trophy – Gianluigi Donnarumma
The Women’s Yashin Trophy – Hannah Hampton
The Kopa Trophy – Lamine Yamal
The Kopa Trophy – Vicky Lopez
The Gerd Muller Trophy – Viktor Gyokeres
The Gerd Muller Trophy – Ewa Pajor
The Socrates Award – Xana Foundation
Men’s Club of the Year – PSG
Women’s Club of the Year – Arsenal WFC
Men’s Johan Cruyff Trophy – Luis Enrique
Women’s Johan Cruyff Trophy – Sarina Wiegman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian goalkeeper claims Yashin Trophy while Swedish striker receives Gerd Muller Trophy Manchester City’s Gianluigi Donnarumma and Arsenal’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99,1959],"class_list":["post-175291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}