The Ballon d’Or has long been seen as the highest individual honor in football.
The “Ballon d’Or” has been awarded since 1956. Lionel Messi has won the trophy a record seven times, with Cristiano Ronaldo second with five. Luka Modric is the only player not named Messi or Ronaldo to have won the Ballon d’Or since 2008.
In 2022, however, Messi has not even made the shortlist with Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema seen as the most likely winner.
We’ll soon find out who the next Ballon d’Or winner will be with the night of football nights taking place shortly.
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what time is the ballon d’or 2022?
The 2022 Ballon d’Or ceremony will take place on Monday, October 17 at the Theater du Chatelet in Paris.
Proceedings are expected to begin at 8:30 p.m. m. local time in france.
This year’s award will be selected based on a schedule of the 2021/22 European club season, which breaks from the previous award schedule of a full calendar year.
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ballon d’or tv channel, live broadcast
United States: Paramount+ is scheduled to broadcast the event for subscribers in the United States.
australia: sbs will televise and broadcast the ceremony for fans who want to watch from australia.
all other regions: the 2022 ballon d’or ceremony will be available to stream live for free on l’equipe’s youtube channel and website in most regions. regions.
The French publication France Football is the creator and curator of the annual Ballon d’Or award, and as such, they are in control of the broadcast of the event, using the broadcast channels of sister publication L’Equipe.
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france football had a brief association with fifa for the ballon d’or between 2010 and 2015, but that is no longer the case with fifa releasing their own individual awards.
ballon d’or betting odds
There are 30 players shortlisted for the 2022 Men’s Ballon d’Or award.
Among the favorites are karim benzema (real madrid), robert lewandowski (at bayern munich in 2021/22, now at barcelona), kevin de bruyne (manchester city) and mohamed salah (liverpool).
Benzema is believed to be the outright winner after leading Real Madrid to the La Liga and Champions League double, while also taking top goalscorer honors in both competitions. the betting odds are a clear indication of the odds of him winning.
There are 20 nominees for the women’s award, including three players from England, Euro 2022 champions, three Americans, Australian star Sam Kerr and 2021 winner Alexia Putellas.
More: Full rosters for the 2022 Men’s and Women’s Ballon d’Or
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How is the winner of the Ballon d’Or chosen?
players, coaches and journalists send votes to decide the winner of the ballon d’or each year.
Before 2007, only journalists were allowed to vote before coaches and captains of national teams were also invited to give their opinion.
The voting criteria were recently updated to remove consideration of general professional performance and instead focus on three main factors:
- individual performance in the previous season (no longer by calendar year);
- team success during the previous season;
- considering player behavior and fair play during the season.
previous ballon d’or winners
messi is the most recent ballon d’or winner after taking home the award in 2021 ahead of robert lewandowski.
the honor was not handed out in 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic and messi also won the award in 2019 after he beat out liverpool’s virgil van dijk by just seven votes.