The Ballon d’Or debate is set to heat up as the 2025-26 football season is now underway. At the center of the conversation ...

Barcelona forward Raphinha enjoyed a meteoric rise to superstardom under Hansi Flick and had the best season of his career, ...

Across Europe's top five leagues in 2024-25, only Liverpool's Mohamed Salah (57), who is also up for the award, registered ...

Germain and Arsenal headline the list of Ballon d’Or 2025 nominees after their respective Champions League successes.

Barcelona star Raphinha has spoken about his chances of winning the Ballon after he was nominated for the award following a ...

The 2021 Ballon d’Or returned some sense of normalcy to the soccer/football world after the ceremony was cancelled in 2020 ...

Englishman Marcus Rashford, currently on loan from Manchester United to FC Barcelona, praised young Spaniard Lamine Yamal, ...

Nigeria midfielder Esther Okoronkwo was overlooked for the women's Ballon d'Or, but she was the real MVP of the Super Falcons' Africa Cup of Nations triumph and the only way is up.

Another star-studded Ballon d'Or nominees list has been announced. So The Athletic’s experts made their cases for who should ...

The 2025 Ballon d'Or nominees for world's best soccer player are out, with USWNT stars Lindsey Heaps and Emily Fox among ...

Aitana Bonmati has won a third of the six women’s Ballon d’Or awards, and three in a row is now on the cards. The 27-year-old ...

Napoli midfielder Scott McTominay earned himself a place on the short list for the 2025 Ballon d'Or award, but which other ...