Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or, while Erling Haaland came away empty-handed. What is the choice of world footballer? t-online tells you where you can watch the trophy being awarded.
In the women’s category, Spanish world champions Aitana Bonmatí and Jennifer Hermoso are the first contenders to succeed their national team colleague Alexia Putellas. The third candidate is Colombia’s young star Linda Caicedo.
Pep Guardiola from Manchester City has a good chance of being chosen as world coach. The former Bayern coach won the Premier League, the FA Cup, the Champions League and the Club World Cup with City in 2023. His competitors are Simone Inzaghi from Inter Milan and Luciano Spalletti, who won the first Italian championship in 33 years with SSC Napoli before becoming Italy’s national coach.
How to watch the FIFA awards live
The festive gala will take place at London’s Hammersmith Apollo and will be broadcast in Germany as a free live stream on the website of the TV channel Sky Sports. Many football stars and other celebrities are expected on the red carpet. German players and coaches are not nominated for the final round this year after İlkay Gündoğan, Marc-André ter Stegen and Ann-Kathrin Berger initially made it onto the shortlist.
For both women and men, all coaches and captains of the national teams as well as specialist journalists and internet users voted. The best coaches and goalkeepers were also chosen. No Germans made it into the top three in these categories either.
From 2010 to 2015, the election was jointly organized by FIFA and France Football. The award ceremonies have been separate again since 2016. Since then, FIFA has chosen its winners at “The Best FIFA Football Awards”. From 2024, UEFA will cooperate with “France Football” in awarding the Ballon d’Or.