What a year it’s been for Karim Benzema. Last season the French striker scored 44 goals in 46 games as Real Madrid lifted the La Liga, Uefa Champions League, Spanish Super Cup and Uefa Super Cup ...

GOAL has been tracking the race for the most coveted individual award in men's football all year, and here's our final standings... For all the controversy and criticism it generates, the Ballon d ...

Rodri won this year’s Ballon d’Or after an exceptional 2024 for Manchester City and Spain, becoming only the third player not ...

Not many have achieved that double. There can be no questioning Benzema’s 2022 Ballon d’Or. The Frenchman was Real Madrid’s ...

The Ballon d’Or went to a new home this year, as Manchester City and Spain star Rodri outlasted three Real Madrid stars to be named the top player in men’s football for the 2023-24 season. Lionel ...

Emiliano Martinez (ARG, 31 years old, Aston Villa) 16. Karim Benzema (FRA, 35 years old, Real Madrid/Al-Ittihad) 17. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (GEO, 22 years old, Napoli) 18. Jude Bellingham (ENG ...

From the last 10 European Golden Shoe winners, only one of them has managed to win the Ballon d’Or which isn’t a great omen for Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah. The Egyptian forward is currently ...