Ousmane Dembele returns to 1st place, Cole Palmer drops out of podium finish in latest ranking

• The 2025 Ballon d'Or nominees announcement and last awards ceremonial are drafting closer
• PSG prima Ousmane Dembele is the favourite aft helping the nine triumph the Champions League
• The FIFA Club World Cup has caused a monolithic displacement successful the rankings of favourites earlier the award

It's been astir a week since the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup last was held astatine the MetLife Stadium successful New Jersey, USA, and it is causing a displacement successful the Ballon d'Or conversation.

Ousmane Dembele, who is the dense favourite to triumph the award, was connected the losing broadside arsenic UEFA Europa Conference League winners Chelsea humiliated Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain.

Ousmane Dembele celebrates aft scoring for PSG against Real Madrid successful the Club World Cup semifinal. Photo by Patrick Smith.
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Cole Palmer enactment himself successful the speech for the Golden Ball aft scoring 2 goals and assisting the 3rd during the 3-0 triumph implicit PSG.

Real Madrid prima Kylian Mbappe’s chances reduced aft his outing successful the USA, during which helium missed the archetypal radical stages aft helium was hospitalised with gastroenteritis.

Dembele reclaims apical spot successful Ballon d'Or rankings

The France planetary dropped beneath Barcelona youngster Lamine Yamal successful astir rankings aft the Club World Cup last nonaccomplishment to Chelsea.

However, a caller ranking according to Touchline X has restored the erstwhile Borussia Dortmund antheral to the archetypal spot and backed him to triumph that award.

The apical 10 features six of Paris Saint-Germain’s champion performers successful their historical treble-winning season.

1. Ousmane Dembélé

2. Lamine Yamal

3. Vitinha

4. Achraf Hakimi

5. Fabian Ruiz

6. Mohamed Salah

7. Raphinha

8. Cole Palmer

9. Nuno Mendes

10. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

How the Ballon d'Or victor is selected

The nominees for the 2025 grant volition beryllium announced connected August 7, portion the ceremonial volition beryllium held connected September 22 astatine Théâtre du Chatelet successful Paris.

According to beIN Sport, France Football and L’Equipe’s editorial squad selects the 30 nominees, portion 1 writer from each of the apical 100 countries connected FIFA rankings votes.

Each writer selects a apical five, based connected their penchant successful enactment with the criteria. The apical spot receives six points, portion the remainder person four, three, 2 and 1 points.

Rodri presents his 2024 Ballon d'Or to Manchester City fans. Photo by Joe Prior.
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The subordinate with the highest ballot wins the award, portion tiebreakers are settled by the fig of archetypal places down to the sixth place, and if there's inactive a tie, France Football decides the winner.

Criteria for winning Ballon d'Or

The Ballon has been awarded based connected seasonal show since 2022, and the 2025 award’s timeline is August 1, 2024, to July 31, 2025.

The Golden Ball voters absorption connected idiosyncratic performance, large moments, squad achievements and corporate success. It besides considers just play and people connected and disconnected tbt pitch.

Cole Palmer speaks astir winning Ballon d'Or

Legit.ng reported that Palmer spoke astir winning the Ballon d'Or aft helping Chelsea triumph the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup astatine the disbursal of PSG

The erstwhile Manchester City academy admitted that his absorption is connected helping his squad triumph trophies and believes those volition bring idiosyncratic awards to him.

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