2024 Ballon d'Or ceremony: Date, time, location, all nominees, how awards are decided & more

Ballon d’Or is set to be awarded on October 28th.

The 2024 Ballon d’Or honours the top players, coaches, and teams, alongside the top scorer, goalie, young player, and humanitarian of the year.

The most prestigious award a football player can earn for extraordinary accomplishments and talent is the Ballon d’Or, which France Football have been presenting every year since 1956.

The 68th iteration of the presentation of prizes will be held at Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet on Monday, October 28. At 10:45 CET, the event will start.

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Who are the nominees for Ballon d’Or?

Men

• Jude Bellingham (England, Real Madrid)
• Hakan Çalhanoğlu (Türkiye, Inter)
• Dani Carvajal (Spain, Real Madrid)
• Rúben Dias (Portugal, Manchester City)
• Artem Dovbyk (Ukraine, Dnipro / Girona / Roma)
• Phil Foden (England, Manchester City)
• Alejandro Grimaldo (Spain, Bayer Leverkusen)
• Erling Haaland (Norway, Manchester City)
• Mats Hummels (Germany, Borussia Dortmund)
• Harry Kane (England, Bayern München)
• Toni Kroos (Germany, Real Madrid)
• Ademola Lookman (Nigeria, Atalanta)
• Emiliano Martínez (Argentina, Aston Villa)
• Lautaro Martínez (Argentina, Inter)
• Kylian Mbappé (France, Paris Saint-Germain / Real Madrid)
• Martin Ødegaard (Norway, Arsenal)
• Dani Olmo (Spain, Leipzig / Barcelona)
• Cole Palmer (England, Manchester City / Chelsea)
• Declan Rice (England, Arsenal)
• Rodri (Spain, Manchester City)
• Antonio Rüdiger (Germany, Real Madrid)
• Bukayo Saka (England, Arsenal)
• William Saliba (France, Arsenal)
• Federico Valverde (Uruguay, Real Madrid)
• Vinícius Júnior (Brazil, Real Madrid)
• Vitinha (Portugal, Paris Saint-Germain)
• Nico Williams (Spain, Athletic Club)
• Florian Wirtz (Germany, Bayer Leverkusen)
• Granit Xhaka (Switzerland, Bayer Leverkusen)
• Lamine Yamal (Spain, Barcelona)

They're all here! But… who should win it? #ballondor pic.twitter.com/SrkHBrJtuI

— Ballon d'Or (@ballondor) September 4, 2024

Women

• Barbra Banda (Zambia, Shanghai RCB / Orlando Pride)
• Aitana Bonmatí (Spain, Barcelona)
• Lucy Bronze (England, Barcelona / Chelsea)
• Mariona Caldentey (Spain, Barcelona / Arsenal)
• Tabitha Chawinga (Malawi, Paris Saint-Germain / Lyon)
• Grace Geyoro (France, Paris Saint-Germain)
• Manuela Giugliano (Italy, Roma)
• Caroline Graham Hansen (Norway, Barcelona)
• Patricia Guijarro (Spain, Barcelona)
• Giulia Gwinn (Germany, Bayern München)
• Yui Hasegawa (Japan, Manchester City)
• Ada Hegerberg (Norway, Lyon)
• Lauren Hemp (England, Manchester City)
• Lindsey Horan (USA, Lyon)
• Lauren James (England, Chelsea)
• Marie-Antoinette Katoto (France, Paris Saint-Germain)
• Alyssa Naeher (USA, Chicago Red Stars)
• Sjoeke Nüsken (Germany, Chelsea)
• Ewa Pajor (Poland, Wolfsburg / Barcelona)
• Salma Paralluelo (Spain, Barcelona)
• Gabi Portilho (Brazil, Corinthians)
• Alexia Putellas (Spain, Barcelona)
• Mayra Ramírez (Colombia, Levante / Chelsea)
• Trinity Rodman (USA, Washington Spirit)
• Lea Schüller (Germany, Bayern München)
• Khadija Shaw (Jamaica, Manchester City)
• Sophia Smith (USA, Portland Thorns)
• Mallory Swanson (USA, Chicago Red Stars)
• Tarciane (Brazil, Corinthians / Houston Dash)
• Glódís Viggósdóttir (Iceland, Bayern München)

How is the Ballon d’Or awarded?

Three primary factors are used to award the Ballon d’Or:

1) Self-performance, decisiveness, and remarkable character2) Group accomplishments and performances3) Fair play and class

An international panel of specialized journalists, one from each nation, selects the winner of the Ballon d’Or from the top 50 for women and the top 100 for men in the most recent FIFA rankings (prior to the lists being released).

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The staff of editors of France Football, people from the editorial board of L’Équipe, the top-ranked juror from the previous version (South Africa for the women’s Ballon d’Or, and Costa Rica for the men’s), and UEFA ambassadors, Luís Figo for the men’s trophy and Nadine Kessler for the women’s trophy choose ten players in descending order from a list of thirty nominees.

Each of the ten chosen players receives 15, 12, 10, 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 point. The player with the highest number of points wins the Ballon d’Or. The amount of votes for first place separates the players in the event of a tie. They are divided by the number of votes for second place, third place, and so on if there is still a tie.

Does the winner take the award home?

Every year, a unique trophy is made for each of the current categories, and all winners keep their awards.

In principle, there are two Gerd Müller Trophies, five Kopa Trophies, five Yashin Trophies, five Women’s Ballon d’Or trophies, 69 official Ballon d’Or trophies, and two Socrates Awards in use globally. Additionally, each laureate has the right to request more official copies of their awards.

For display reasons, France Football also maintains two original Ballon d’Or trophies at its offices.

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