Paris St Germain’s Ousmane Dembele celebrates after successful the lads’s Ballon d’Or award, September 22, 2025. – ReutersDembele praises PSG, coach Enrique, and teammates for help.PSG win a number of awards, together with staff of the season.Barca’s Bonmati wins third consecutive girls’s Ballon d’Or.
Ousmane Dembele was named the world’s finest participant of the season as he claimed the Ballon d’Or on an evening of triumph for his Paris St Germain membership, whereas Barcelona’s Aitana Bonmati, a serial trophy winner, claimed the ladies’s award on Monday.
The 28-year-old France ahead Dembele, who wanted time and the steering of PSG coach Luis Enrique to meet his potential as he impressed the capital membership to their first Champions League title final season, turned the sixth French participant to elevate the award and the primary since Karim Benzema in 2022.
He beat Spain and Barcelona ahead Lamine Yamal, along with his PSG teammate Vitinha taking third place.
“What I have just experienced is exceptional, I have no words for it, what happened with PSG. I feel a bit of stress, it’s not easy to win this trophy, and to have it presented to me by Ronaldinho, a legend of football, is exceptional,” Dembele stated on stage at a Paris ceremony the place he was supported by a number of teammates, the others being in Marseille for the Ligue 1 conflict in opposition to OM which they misplaced 1-0.
FC Barcelona’s Aitana Bonmati makes a speech after successful the ladies’s Ballon d’Or award, September 22, 2025. – Reuters
“I want to thank PSG who came to get me in 2023. It’s an incredible family. The president Nasser (Al-Khelaifi) is like a father to me. I also want to thank all the staff and the coach, who have been exceptional with me — he too is like a father — and all my teammates.
“We have practically won everything together. You supported me in the good and the difficult times. This individual trophy is one the team has won collectively,” he added, later bursting into tears when he thanked his mom who joined him on stage.
He additionally talked about his first membership Stade Rennais and the nationwide staff, vowing to win one other World Cup subsequent 12 months with coach Didier Deschamps after their 2018 victory.
“A great evening for him and a very good thing for French football. Ous’ is someone who is very sensitive, he has had a difficult career with serious injuries but he has always kept things in perspective,” Deschamps stated.
Dembele’s prize was one among a number of for PSG, who gained the treble of Champions League, Ligue 1 and the French Cup final season in addition to the UEFA Tremendous Cup this 12 months.
The French champions have been named staff of the season, Luis Enrique was voted finest coach and Gianluigi Donnarumma, who left for Manchester Metropolis within the shut season, was recognised as prime goalkeeper with the Yashin trophy.
“It’s the result of hard work, by everyone at the club,” PSG President Al-Khelaifi stated. “We’ve got young players, and stars who work for the team. It’s a collective achievement.”
Spain’s Bonmati, the Champions League participant of the season, gained the ladies’s Ballon d’Or for the third time in a row, whereas England’s Dutch supervisor Sarina Wiegman was honoured as girls’s coach of the 12 months after main her facet to the European title.
“I’m amazed and proud because it’s a lot of hard work. I’m here for the third time in a row because of the teams I’ve been playing with,” the 27-year-old Bonmati stated.
“We couldn’t win the Champions League this year but we went to the final and it’s football, it’s not always about winning or losing,” she added, with Barca having misplaced 1-0 to Arsenal on this 12 months’s ultimate of Europe’s elite membership competitors.
