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Ballon d’Or 2025 live Updated 7m ago Paris Saint-Germain’s Ousmane Dembele and Barcelona’s Aitana Bonmati have won the top prizes at the 2025 Ballon d’Or awards ceremony in Paris, France. Dembele, who helped PSG become the first French side to win a continental treble last season, beat Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal to the men’s award. Spain international Bonmati won the Ballon d’Or Féminin for the third year in a row, edging out Mariona Caldentey. Results — Young players: Lopez, Yamal. Best coaches: Wiegman, Enrique. Best goalkeepers: Hampton, Donnarumma. Top scorers: Pajor, Gyokeres. Women’s club: Arsenal. Men’s club: PSG. GO FURTHER How Ousmane Dembele won the Ballon d’Or – New role, learning to love tap-ins, and not ‘cheating’ The England manager takes the prize! Advertisement Who will take the prize? Italian Fabio Capello presenting the award. Presumably not for his work with the England national team. Honouring the best coaches of the previous season. The production line of great women’s players out of Spain (and Barcelona) continues. Vicky Lopez is the next bright talent to light up the domestic and international stage, after breaking through for Spain in the summer at the Euros as they finished runners-up to England. Expect to see a lot more of a seriously talented creative player at events like this in the future. Vicky Lopez dedicated her award to her late mother. Advertisement What they don’t tell you is how bright the lights are. If you reach this level you need sunglasses and not just to look cool. The city of lights has delivered. And so has Barcelona as Vicky Lopez joins Lamine Yamal as the best young player in the world. I’m inside the theatre with around 50 Parisian schoolchildren sat behind me. As the Kopa award nominees are read out, huge cheers went up for Joao Neves and Desire Doue. As Lamine Yamal’s name was expectedly announced as the winner, it was met with a smattering of boos. “Doue! ” One youngster shouted. It’s safe to say, after years of tension between the club and the fanbase, PSG’s success has got the fans back on side again. Or the youth of Paris, at least. Lamine Yamal lit up the Champions League last season with his performances cutting in from the right wing. Very few teams had the answer for his ability to quickly shift his weight inside and curl a shot into the top corner. What a talented young man — and you fancy he’ll rank pretty highly in the main award tonight. Lamine Yamal living his best life after winning the Kopa Trophy. He will win a Ballon d’Or one day. Maybe more than one? Special player who will return to this stage. Laporta is all smiles with two Kopa winners. Advertisement Congratulations to the brilliant 19-year-old. She pays tribute to her family, speaking on stage in Spanish. Barcelona president Joan Laporta applauds proudly from the plush seats. Now, over to the women's Kopa Trophy! The nominees: ‘Maybe I'll see you later’, teases Ruud Gullit as Lamine Yamal strides off stage. A humble response from the teenager when asked if he is ready for the main award (possibly later tonight). I'd say he's ready. Though it will be a little while until we find out if those who voted agree. Yamal, 18, becomes the only player in the award's short history to win it twice, and two in a row for that matter. The first prize was given in 2018. Advertisement Of course it is! The Spain and Barcelona wonderkid walks up on stage to collect the award. Some venue. The former Real Madrid defender is set to present the Kopa Trophy.