- A ‘leaked’ Ballon d’Or top 10 has gone viral just hours before the 2024 winner is disclosed
- This year’s race i expected to be a straight battle between PSG’s Ousmane Dembele and Barcelona prodigy Lamine Yamal
- But the leaked list delivered a major surprise, revealing that neither Dembele nor Yamal will take home the award
At just 18 years old, Barcelona wonderkid Lamine Yamal has delivered a historic campaign with 18 goals and 125 assists
A leaked list claiming to show the top 10 finishers for the 2025 men’s Ballon d’Or has gone viral just a day before Monday’s ceremony in Paris.
In recent years, the identity of the winner has often surfaced online before the official announcement, unlike decades past when the results were kept secret until the big reveal.
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These days, fans usually know the winner, and even the top three, well before the ceremony begins.
This year, multiple lists claiming to reveal the players and their vote counts have already been “leaked.”
The prestigious award will be handed out at the Théâtre du Châtelet, with the 2024 winner set to be crowned on the night.
Remarkably, for just the fourth time since 2007, neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo feature on the shortlist, ensuring a new name will claim the prize.
The new Ballon d’Or winner will officially be unveiled at Monday’s glamorous awards ceremony, scheduled to begin around 7pm Ghana time.
2025 Ballon d’Or top 10 list ‘leaked’
However, on Saturday evening, a supposed leaked list claiming to reveal the top 10 finishers went viral across social media.
The unconfirmed but widely shared list places Barcelona’s Raphinha at the top with 800 points, a tally higher than Lionel Messi’s winning totals in 2023 and 2019 (686) and Luka Modrić’s in 2018 (753), though still short of Cristiano Ronaldo’s 946 in 2017.
If the leak is accurate, PSG star Ousmane Dembélé comes second with 710 points, followed by Lamine Yamal in third.
PSG duo Vitinha and Nuno Mendes reportedly sit fourth and fifth, with Pedri in sixth, Kylian Mbappé in seventh, and Mohamed Salah, Désiré Doué, and Lautaro Martínez rounding out the top 10.
The alleged top 10, according to the leaked list, in this year’s vote are shared on X below:
Ballon d’Or votes are cast well before the ceremony, and rumours began circulating in September that Dembele already knew he had won, though he has not been officially informed.
According to L’Équipe, this is the first year the winner has not been formally notified in advance, with no pre-ceremony interview or photoshoot arranged as has traditionally been the case.
Source: YEN.com.gh
Source: Yen.com.gh
