Dembele and Bonmati top the Ballon d’Or awards in Paris

Event date: 2025-09-22

Ousmane Dembélé won the men’s Ballon d’Or for the first time and Aitana Bonmatí collected the women’s prize for a third consecutive year at the ceremony in Paris, according to the packet’s report. The result gave Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona two of the evening’s biggest prizes and confirmed the pair as the leading individual players in their respective competitions.

The Daily Jagran report said Dembélé edged Lamine Yamal for the men’s award at the Châtelet Theatre. It described the French winger’s season as one built on goals and assists for PSG and said he was visibly emotional while thanking his mother during his acceptance speech. The report placed him at the top of the voting after a campaign in which PSG also enjoyed a historic club season.

Bonmatí’s victory was her third in a row, making her the first women’s player to win the award three times consecutively. The report said she followed another strong season with Barcelona and Spain, even though both sides ended their major campaigns without the trophies they had targeted. That detail underlined the individual weight of her award: recognition for a year that still contained disappointment at team level.

The broader ceremony reflected PSG’s strength across the board. The packet said Luis Enrique won the men’s Johan Cruyff award, Gianluigi Donnarumma took the men’s goalkeeper prize, and PSG were named men’s club of the year. In the women’s competition, England manager Sarina Wiegman was named women’s coach of the year, Hannah Hampton won the goalkeeper award and Arsenal took women’s club of the year.

The report also highlighted the younger-player prizes, with Barcelona’s Vicky Lopez winning the women’s Kopa Trophy. On the men’s side, Yamal finished second behind Dembélé, a sign that the teenager remained central to the conversation even in defeat.

The Ballon d’Or remains one of football’s most watched individual honours because it turns a season-long body of work into one evening of judgement. This year, the verdict was especially clear: Dembélé became the men’s winner for the first time, and Bonmatí extended a remarkable run that now includes three straight titles.

The article in the packet did not present a disputed result, and the awards list was the main news. The ceremony in Paris therefore read as a snapshot of the sport’s current hierarchy, with Dembélé and Bonmatí at the top and the rest of the night’s prizes reinforcing the same theme.