Overview

• France Football executive Vincent Garcia said Dembélé won by a wide margin across ballots from all continents.
• Dembélé’s season featured 35 goals in 53 games and a clean sweep with PSG that included the club’s first Champions League title.
• Lamine Yamal became the first player to win the Kopa Trophy twice, adding the 2025 honor to last year’s award.
• Yamal congratulated Dembélé on stage and later posted a measured message on Instagram, even as his father called the result “the biggest moral damage” and “very strange.”
• Barcelona president Joan Laporta pointed to the Champions League’s weight in the voting, while Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi publicly congratulated Dembélé.