Ballon d’Or 2022: How does the format for the Ballon d’Or work? Changes made to football’s prestigious award

There have been some slight changes to the Ballon d’Or for this year which may change your view on who should win the award when the winner is announced on Monday. Traditionally, the Ballon d’Or is presented to the best player over a 12-month period from January to December.

Ad However, for this year and beyond, this has changed to the award being based on the previous season. This is the period from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2022.

Ballon d'OrMessi, Ronaldo, Zidane, Platini — previous winners of the Ballon d’Or5 HOURS AGO It’s the reason why Lionel Messi hasn’t been nominated for the Ballon d’Or for the first time since 2005 after his poor campaign with Paris Saint-Germain. “Inevitably, Lionel Messi, with his 15 appearances in a row since 2006, his seven Ballon d'Or victories, his title holder status, weighs very heavily when it comes to the final choice,” France Football’s deputy editor-in-chief Emmanuel Bojan explained.

“The Argentinian was part of the discussions to integrate the 30, but the new criteria for the Ballon d'Or were unfavourable to him: disappearance of the criterion of a player's entire career, and new periodicity, modelled on a season of football and no longer over a calendar year, which does not make it possible to integrate the Copa America of July 11, 2021. «And then, it must be admitted that his first season in Paris was very disappointing both in terms of the visual impression and the statistics.» Ballon d’Or format France Football, a highly respected football publication, have come up with a shortlist of 30 contenders for this year’s Ballon d’Or with 20 names for the women’s award.

This was announced in August. A hundred journalists from FIFA's top 100 nations will select their top five from the