Ballon D’Or Winners List

The Ballon d’Or is a prestigious football award given to the best footballer each year since 1956. The current Ballon d’Or holder is Lionel Messi (2023), an eight-time winner.

Aside from a six-year merger with FIFA between 2009 and 2015, the Ballon d’Or has been a separate award given out by France Football. The Ballon d’Or winners list features the best footballers of every generation since it’s inception.

Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d’Or award eight times while Cristiano Ronaldo has won the award five times, with the duo sharing all 10 awards between 2008 and 2017.

Messi is the only player to win the award four consecutive seasons, ahead of Michel Platini’s hat-trick of awards in 1983-85. He has also continued to win the award late into his thirties, winning it three times in the last five seasons.

In 2020, the Ballon d’Or was not awarded to anyone, and in 2022, it was the first time since 2007 that neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo made it to the top three list for the award.

Men’s Ballon d’Or Winners List

Women’s Ballon d’Or (Ballon d’Or Féminin) Winners List