Overview

• L’Équipe and Marca report that Real Madrid does not plan to attend the September 22 ceremony at Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet.
• The position follows last year’s fallout when the club withdrew its entire delegation after Vinícius Júnior lost the 2024 award to Rodri.
• Delegations from France Football and UEFA traveled to Madrid earlier this year for talks, but discussions reportedly ended without progress.
• Club sources have questioned recent scoring-rule changes and UEFA’s role in the process, deepening the dispute.
• Three Madrid players—Vinícius Júnior, Kylian Mbappé and Jude Bellingham—are on the 30-man shortlist, making any absence especially conspicuous.