Ballon d’Or 2025: Dembele edges out Yamal; Bonmati clinches 3rd consecutive award

Paris Saint-Germain winger Ousmane Dembele capped disconnected a career-defining twelvemonth by winning the Ballon d’Or 2025 connected Monday, rewarding his pivotal relation successful PSG’s historical Champions League triumph.

The Frenchman edged retired Barcelona teen Lamine Yamal to win 2024 victor Rodri arsenic football’s astir prestigious idiosyncratic prize returned to Paris.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Dembele, 28, enjoyed a spectacular run aft being converted into a centre-forward pursuing Kylian Mbappe’s departure to Real Madrid. He delivered an astonishing 35 goals crossed each competitions, firing PSG to a home treble and their long-awaited archetypal Champions League crown.

The crowning infinitesimal came successful Munich, wherever PSG demolished Inter Milan 5-0 successful the final.“I truly don’t person the words. It was an unthinkable play with PSG,” said a visibly affectional Dembele astatine the Théâtre du Châtelet successful Paris. The Frenchman credited caput manager Luis Enrique — who besides took location the grant for nine manager of the twelvemonth — arsenic “like a father” successful guiding his transformation.Despite celebrating idiosyncratic glory, Dembele stressed the team’s relation successful his success: “It is an idiosyncratic trophy but it was truly the corporate that won it.”

While Dembele lifted the men’s prize, Aitana Bonmati of Spain claimed the Women’s Ballon d’Or for the 3rd twelvemonth running, beating her planetary teammate Mariona Caldentey. Bonmati, 27, starred astatine Euro 2025 contempt Spain losing the last to England, and said her continued occurrence was down to her teams astatine nine and state level.The ceremonial besides saw Lamine Yamal, inactive conscionable 18, assertion the Kopa Trophy for champion young antheral subordinate for a 2nd consecutive year.

PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma took location the Yashin Trophy earlier his summertime determination to Manchester City, portion England’s Hannah Hampton was named champion women’s goalkeeper. England brag Sarina Wiegman won champion women’s coach.Dembele’s triumph ends years of Ballon d’Or dominance by Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and much precocious Rodri, underlining PSG’s emergence arsenic a existent European powerhouse. With his sanction etched into shot history, the 2018 World Cup victor admitted the grant had ne'er been a vocation people but reflected: “I worked hard for the squad to triumph the Champions League — this is the reward.”