Surprise! Only ONE Chelsea Star Makes the 2025 Ballon d’Or Shortlist — Guess Who?.
France Football have announced the 2025 Men’s Ballon d’Or nominees.
Only Cole Palmer from the Chelsea squad made the 30-man shortlist.
The 2025 Ballon d’Or ceremony will take place in Paris on September 22.
See the full shortlist
- usmane Dembele (PSG);
- – Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG);
- – Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid);
- – Desire Doue (PSG);
- – Denzel Dumfries (Inter);
- – Serhou Guirassy (Dortmund);
- – Erling Haaland (Man City);
- – Viktor Gyokeres (Arsenal);
- Achraf Hakimi (PSG);
- – Harry Kane (Bayern);
- – Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (PSG);
- – Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona);
- – Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool);
- – Lautaro Martinez (Inter);
- Scott McTominay (Napoli);
- – Kylian Mbappe (Real Madrid);
- – Nuno Mendes (PSG);
- – Joao Neves (PSG);
- – Pedri (Barcelona);
- – Cole Palmer (Chelsea);
- Michael Olise (Bayern);
- – Raphinha (Barcelona);
- – Declan Rice (Arsenal);
- – Fabian Ruiz (PSG);
- – Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool);
- – Vinicius Jr (Real Madrid);
- Mohamed Salah (Liverpool);
- – Florian Wirtz (Liverpool);
- – Vitinha (PSG);
- – Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)
Manchester City’s Rodri won the award last year.