Ballon d'Or 2025 (Dembele and Bonmati)
The 2025 Ballon d'Or ceremony in Paris on 22 September 2025 crowned Ousmane Dembele - after PSG's first Champions League title, a domestic double and 37 goals - ahead of Lamine Yamal and Vitinha, while Aitana Bonmati won the women's award for the third year running. Yamal took the Kopa Trophy, Donnarumma the Yashin and Gyokeres the Gerd Muller.
Why this wins its question: The full 2025 winners list and men's top ten bound to UEFA's official ceremony report, linking the individual-award layer to the PSG arc in this graph.
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Ousmane Dembele won the 2025 Men's Ballon d'Or on 22 September 2025, ahead of Lamine Yamal (second) and Vitinha (third), after a 2024/25 season with 37 goals and 15 assists in which he was Champions League Player of the Season and PSG won their first European Cup and a domestic double.
Aitana Bonmati won the Women's Ballon d'Or for the third consecutive year; Lamine Yamal took the Men's Kopa Trophy, Vicky Lopez the women's, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Hannah Hampton the Yashin Trophies, Viktor Gyokeres (63 goals) and Ewa Pajor the Gerd Muller Trophies, and Luis Enrique and Sarina Wiegman the Johan Cruyff coaching awards.
The men's top ten was completed by Mohamed Salah (4th), Raphinha (5th), Achraf Hakimi (6th), Kylian Mbappe (7th), Cole Palmer (8th), Gianluigi Donnarumma (9th) and Nuno Mendes (10th).