Ballon d'Or 2025 Live Updates: Lamine Yamal Wins Best Young Player Award

Next, the world's best goalkeepers are honoured with the Yashin Trophy (men and women). This is the first time the award is being given for the women's game, and it is a historic moment for England custodian Hannah Hampton, who wins it. She pays tribute to former Liverpool women manager Matt Beard, who has passed away at the age of 47.

The men's award is won by Manchester City and Italy goalie Gianluigi Donnarumma.

It is Paris Saint-Germain's decorated manager Luis Enrique who wins the men's Johan Cruyff Trophy. Enrique led PSG to a much celebrated treble last season, which included their first-ever Champions League crown. He is not in Paris to collect the award, as his team are currently in action against Marseille for the 110th iteration of Le Classique.

England women's head coach Sarina Wiegman wins the women's Johan Cruyff Trophy for being the best coach in the women's game. The Dutch manager makes a rousing call to continue the fight against misogyny and racism, while accepting the award.

The first of 13 awards is given to surprise, surprise, Lamine Yamal for being adjudged the best under-21 men's player in the world, AKA the men's Kopa trophy. The women's prize goes to Spain and Barcelona midfielder Vicky Lopez.

Will Yamal bag another, grander award later in the night? We shall find out.

The glittering red carpet arrivals draw to a close and the awards ceremony officially begins. While nominees like Lamine Yamal are in attendance at Theatre du Chetelet, so are legends of generations past like Andres Iniesta, Ronaldinho and Luis Figo.

Lionel Messi was never in contention for Ballon d'Or 2025, as he was not part of the nominee list. The Argentine legend has won the award a record eight times. Just like him, Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is also not in the running. The Al-Nassr forward has claimed the prize five times.

And here are the 10 players still in contention for the Ballon d'Or Feminin, that is the women's top prize:

Lucy Bronze (England and Chelsea); Aitana Bonmati (Spain and Barcelona); Mariona Caldentey (Spain and Arsenal); Patricia Guijarro (Spain and Barcelona; Hannah Hampton (England and Chelsea); Chloe Kelly (England and Arsenal); Ewa Pajor (Poland and Barcelona); Alexia Putellas (Spain and Barcelona); Alessia Russo (England and Arsenal); Leah Williamson (England and Arsenal)

The likes of Harry Kane, Vinicius Junior and Erling Haaland have all fallen out of contention as they are in the bottom 20 of the 30-strong men's nominees list. Here is the list of the 10 who remain (in no particular order):

Ousmane Dembele (France and PSG); Gianluigi Donnarumma (Italy and Manchester City); Achraf Hakimi (Morocco and PSG); Kylian Mbappe (France and Real Madrid); Nuno Mendes (Portugal and PSG); Cole Palmer (Chelsea and England); Raphinha (Brazil and Barcelona); Mohamed Salah (Egypt and Liverpool); Vitinha (Portugal and PSG) and Lamine Yamal (Spain and Barcelona)

The awards ceremony will officially begin at 12:30am IST, while the rankings are being released before that. Ballon d'Or 2025 will be live streamed on the SonyLIV app and website in India. It will be telecast on the Sony Sports Network TV channels in the country.

Greetings and welcome everyone. The fateful night of the Ballon d'Or 2025 awards is here. Stay with us as we bring to you the rankings, build-up and latest updates from the biggest football awards ceremony on the planet.