Ballon d’Or 2023: who voted for who as Messi, Bonmatí won France Football award?

Lionel Messi and Aitana Bonmatí won the 2023 Men’s and Women’s Ballons d’Or by considerable margins, voting details released by awards organisers France Football have shown.

Messi, Bonmatí both win Ballon d’Or by three-digit margins

Messi, who picked up a record eighth Men’s Ballon d’Or at Monday’s gala in Paris, finished 105 points clear of second-placed Erling Haaland.

Meanwhile, Bonmatí won the women’s prize by an even greater distance than the Argentine, accruing 179 more points than runner-up Sam Kerr.

2023 Men’s Ballon d’Or top 10 - total points:

2023 Men’s Ballon d’Or: who voted for who?

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2023 Women’s Ballon d’Or top 10 - total points:

2023 Women’s Ballon d’Or: who voted for who?

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Ballon d’Or: how did voting work?

The winner of the Men’s Ballon d’Or was chosen by 92 journalists, each from one of the top 100 nations in FIFA’s men’s world rankings.

The Women’s Ballon d’Or was voted for by 47 journalists, each from one of the 50 highest-ranked women’s nations.

Each jury member was asked to select five candidates from a 30-player shortlist and rank them in order of preference. Each nominee picked was then awarded the following number of points depending on their position in the journalist’s top five:

First: 6 points

Second: 4 points

Third: 3 points

Fourth: 2 points

Fifth: 1 point