Ousmane Démbélé wins Ballon d'Or 2025, beats Lamine Yamal

And’ Ousmane Démbélé the winner of the Golden Ball 2025. One year after Rodri&#8217s triumph, the PSG striker completed his record-breaking 2025 by finishing ahead of Lamine Yamal (who partially consoled himself with the best youngster award) and teammate Vitinha.

Ninth place for Gigio Donnarumma (voted best goalkeeper of the season), Scott McTominay (Napoli) best representative of Serie A in 18th place, further back Inter players Lautaro Martinez and Denzel Dumfries 20th and 25th respectively. Luis Enrique won the award for best coach.

Here is the final top 10 ranking of the Ballon d’Oro 2025:
1) Ousmane Dembélé (France), Paris Saint-Germain
2) Lamine Yamal (Spain), Barcelona
3) Vitinha (Portugal), Paris Saint-Germain
4) Mohamed Salah (Egypt), Liverpool
5) Raphinha (Brazil), Barcelona
6) Achraf Hakimi (Morocco), Paris Saint-Germain
7) Kylian Mbappé (France), Real Madrid
8) Cole Palmer (England), Chelsea
9) Gianluigi Donnarumma (Italy), Paris Saint-Germain/Manchester City
10) Nuno Mendes (Portugal), Paris Saint-Germain