Ballon d'Or 2022 LIVE - Karim Benzema and Alexia Putellas eye football's top individual awards in Paris

The Ballon d'Or, the Ballon d'Or Feminin, the Kopa Trophy and the Yashin Trophy will be awarded on October 17 in Paris in a lavish ceremony at Theatre du Chatelet. The ceremony starts at 19:30 UK time. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have won 12 of the last 13 Ballon d’Ors — with Real Madrid’s Luka Modric winning as the sole outlier in 2018 — but Messi was not even nominated for the 2022 award.

Karim Benzema is the hot favourite to win the men's award while Alexia Putellas of Barcelona — despite missing out on Euro 2022 due to injury — is expected to win the women's award, with competition from England and Arsenal's Beth Mead amongst others. Ad Awards for the best goalkeeper — the Yashin Trophy — and the best young player in the world — the Kopa Trophy — will also be awarded at the Ballon d'Or ceremony. Ballon d'OrHow to watch the Ballon d'Or ceremony live stream37 MINUTES AGO Follow all the latest updates as they happen, here 08:30 — Ronaldo set for first awards appearance in five years Cristiano Ronaldo will attend tonight's ceremony in Paris, in what is set to be his first appearance at the gala for five years.

The Mirror reports that Ronaldo was last present in 2017 when he won his fifth and most recent Ballon d'Or. The 37-year-old has incredibly been on every 30-man Ballon d'Or shortlist since being first nominated in 2005. There is little hope that Ronaldo win a sixth Golden Ball tonight, after failing to hit his previous stratospheric heights in an underperforming Manchester United side.