⭐ Ballon d'OF: our runner-up is...

The Ballon d'Or 2025 will be unveiled this Monday. On this occasion, the French editorial team of OneFootball participated in the voting game to elect their Ballon d'OF for the 2024-25 season. Today, let's discover the player who occupies the 2nd place in our ranking!

2️⃣ Lamine Yamal (FC Barcelona / ESP) - 55 pts

2nd in the OneFootball Ballon: Lamine Yamal

Achraf Hakimi: 53 points; Raphinha: 54 points; Lamine Yamal: 55 points. The Spanish prodigy could just as easily have finished 3rd or 4th in this 2025 OneFootball Ballon.

Extraordinary, breathtaking, thrilling, impressive, abnormal, magical: we clearly don't lack adjectives to describe Lamine Yamal's 2024-25 season.

An inventive player with pure technical quality, Yamal delighted last season with his assists, goals, and technical inventions that tormented all the defenders he faced. 

The 18-year-old winger from FC Barcelona has become the leader of his team and, above all, the face of today's football. The star to follow every weekend in La Liga, the prodigy who leaves his mark on Champions League nights. 

The standout stats of Raphinha's 2024-25 season:

• Goals and assists in all competitions: 18 goals, 25 assists
• Honors: La Liga, Copa del Rey, Spanish Super Cup, Nations League finalist

📝 Ballon d'OneFootball: our ranking

10th: Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (4 points)

9th: Pedri (19 points)

8th: Kylian Mbappé (21 points)

7th: Gianluigi Donnarumma (22 points)

6th: Mohamed Salah (32 points)

5th: Vitinha (41 points)

4th: Achraf Hakimi (53 points)

3rd: Raphinha (54 points)

2nd: Lamine Yamal (55 points)

🔎 Methodology

From the list of 30 finalists established by France Football, the seven members of our editorial team defined their top 10. 10 points for 1st place, 9 points for 2nd, 8 for 3rd, etc...

The scores were totaled, and the ranking was established based on the total number of points earned by the players. In the event of a tie, the player with the highest position ranks ahead.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.

📸 FRANCK FIFE - AFP or licensors