Overview
- The Ballon d'Or was awarded to Harry Kane, a result announced on Monday and confirmed when France Football and L'Équipe published the full voting numbers on Friday evening.
- Kane finished with 1,055 points while Kylian Mbappé had 1,027, a 28-point gap that arose from a divided panel of 100 voting journalists.
- Journalists cast first-place votes unevenly: 40 gave Kane their top spot, 23 chose Mbappé, and 13 put Barcelona's Lamine Yamal first.
- The published Top-10 totals show Lamine Yamal third on 881 points with Rodri fourth and Lionel Messi fifth, which highlights how votes clustered across several standout seasons.
- For Kane the award crowns a major individual milestone after recent club trophies with Bayern Munich and could shape his legacy and public standing among the game's elite.