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Ballon d’Or 2024: who voted for whom list as Rodri, Bonmatí, Yamal, Ancelotti win awards

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The 2024 Ballon d’Or ceremony provided the necessary blend between glitz, glamour and drama to keep just about everyone interested in what went on at the Théâtre du Châtelet in the French capital.

In the end, Rodri took home the men‘s award, with Barcelona‘s Aitana making it two in two as the best women’s player in world football.

Lamine Yamal was crowned the best young player on the planet while cheeky Dibu Martínez was named as top stopper, and Real Madrid got their award for not being the best behaved side in all the land.

Nobody from Real Madrid - not Florentino Pérez, nor Carlo Ancelotti, Jude Bellingham, Toni Kroos, Emilio Butragueño, Dani Carvajal, a single executive, the host of social media workers, nor Vinicius Jr - appeared on the night.

The Real Madrid flight from the capital’s airport was booked for 3pm local time. By ten past, news was spreading across the world like the arms of a solar flare that the Brazilian was not receiving the award.

But who was behind it? Who voted for Rodri?

How does Ballon d’Or voting work?

Before we get into the injustice of Malta not voting for your favourite player, let’s take a look at how things actually work.

For the men’s award, a total of 100 journalists - one each from the top 100 nations in FIFA’s world ranking - vote for the winner from a 30-player shortlist. They also cast their ballot for the recipients of the Yashin Trophy (for the best men’s goalkeeper), and the Men’s Coach of the Year and Men’s Club of the Year awards.

The women’s Ballon d’Or, meanwhile, is chosen from a 30-player shortlist by a group of 50 journalists, one each from the highest 50 nations in the FIFA women’s world ranking. The same jury also decides the winners of the Women’s Coach of the Year and the Women’s Club of the Year.

Which journalists voted for which players in the Ballon d’Or?

Football is different nowadays in so many ways, and while media ‘leaks’ are always happening, the instant news of the Ballon d‘Or voting is no longer available. Last year, it was days before we knew (remember the pain?) which way the votes went to give Lionel Messi his 8th Ballon d’Or, and it seems like this year might be the same.

El Salvador (Bruno Porzio)

  1. Bellingham
  2. Haaland
  3. Kroos
  4. Lautaro Martínez
  5. Dani Olmo
  6. Calhanoglu
  7. Rodri
  8. Wirtz
  9. Foden
  10. Rúben Dias

Spain (Alfredo Relaño)

  1. Vinicius Jr
  2. Rodri
  3. Bellingham
  4. Kroos
  5. Carvajal

Ukraine (Igor Linnyk)

  1. Rodri
  2. Carvajal
  3. Bellingham
  4. Vinicius Jr

Mexico (Salvador Aguilera)

  1. Vinicius Jr
  2. Carvajal
  3. Rodri

Ecuador (Patricio Corneiro Garcés)

  1. Kroos
  2. Vinicius Jr
  3. Nico Williams

Croatia (Zdravko Reic)

  1. Rodri
  2. Carvajal
  3. Lautaro Martínez
  4. Vinicius Jr
  5. Mbappé
  6. Haaland
  7. Lamine Yamal
  8. Wirtz
  9. Bellingham
  10. Kroos

Albania (Besnik Dizdari)

  1. Rodri
  2. Lamine Yamal
  3. Carvajal
  4. Bellingham
  5. Rüdiger
  6. Haaland
  7. Lautaro Martínez
  8. Vinicius Jr
  9. Mbappé
  10. Xhaka

Chile (Danilo Díaz)

  1. Rodri
  2. Lautaro Martínez
  3. Carvajal

Scotland (John Greechan)

  1. Bellingham

Brazil (Cleber Machado)

  1. Vinicius Jr
  2. Rodri
  3. Bellingham

Italy (Paolo Condo)

  1. Rodri
  2. Vinicius Jr
  3. Bellingham

Norway (Lars Tjaernaas)

  1. Rodri

Czechia (Stanislav Hrabe)

  1. Rodri
  2. Kroos
  3. Lamine Yamal
  4. Lautaro Martínez
  5. Bellingham
  6. Haaland
  7. Kane
  8. Dani Olmo
  9. Vinicius Jr
  10. Carvajal

Venezuela (Francisco Blavia)

  1. Rodri
  2. Vinicius Jr
  3. Bellingham

China (Luo Ming)

  1. Rodri
  2. Bellingham
  3. Vinicius Jr

Panama (Campo Estrada)

  1. Vinicius Jr

Mexico (Salvador Aguilera)

  1. Vinicius Jr
  2. Carvajal
  3. Rodri

Morocco (Mostafa Badri)

  1. Vinicius Jr
  2. Rodri
  3. Bellingham

Ecuatorial Guinea (Fernando Abeso)

  1. Vinicius Jr
  2. Nico Williams
  3. Rodri
El fútbol es un deporte colectivo. Pero un colectivo lo forman varios individuos. 11, en el caso del balompié. Cada uno de estos individuos son vitales para que el conjunto funcione, pero siempre destaca uno sobre los demás. Por eso se entrega el Balón de Oro al final de cada temporada al mejor individuo de todos. Y Lionel Messi, para muchos el mejor jugador de todos los tiempos, lo ha recibido en ocho ocasiones, el que más con amplio margen con el segundo, Cristiano Ronaldo, que tiene cinco. Messi tiene muchos más récords individuales como las botas de oro, los goles en un año o asistencias totales, pero, sin duda, el de los ocho balones de oro no tiene pinta de que nadie lo alcance por el momento. Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini.
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Messi collected his 8th Ballon d'Or last year.MOHAMMED BADRAEFE

Not all the information is available at the time of writing regarding the journalists who voted for Rodri, Aitana, Vini and the rest, but the full list should be revealed at some point in the near future. Keep your eyes peeled and your social media firestorms in the drafts folder.

Of course, as soon as the news is out we’ll have it here for you on AS USA, so just keep this tab open and get mashing the F5 button on your keyboard.

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