Ballon d’Or, the criteria for voting and the number of jurors change

This was announced by the editor-in-chief of France Football, which awards the prestigious award. The jurors reduced from 170 to 100, one for each nation according to the Fifa ranking

The Golden Ball, the highest individual award, awarded by France Football, from the next edition will take into consideration the sporting season and no longer the calendar year, one of the main reforms aimed at making it “clearer”, announced today the transalpine magazine . “This is an opportunity to give new impetus to the award. Until yesterday we judged the players over two half seasons. In this way the choice will be more understandable, ”said Pascal Ferré, editor-in-chief of France Football.

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The next awards ceremony will take place in September or October 2022 and will concern the season that began a year earlier, taking into account in particular the Champions League (final on May 28) and the Women’s European Championship (July 6-31). The number of jurors will be reduced. Always made up of journalists, with one voter per country, the jury will now include only 100 voters for the men’s Ballon d’Or, corresponding to the top 100 nations of the FIFA rankings, compared to the previous 170.

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