BALLON D'OR
Ballon d’Or 2023: who voted for who as Messi, Bonmatí won France Football award?
Lionel Messi won a record eighth Men’s Ballon d’Or, while Aitana Bonmatí took the women’s award. But where did the votes come from?
![2023 Ballon d’Or: Messi and Bonmatí](https://img.asmedia.epimg.net/resizer/v2/PEH6BCWAZRFEBCBGMZ4PMI5LO4.jpg?auth=e3c250327f0f6d9e088a9f72e1080459bc82f8ccba8488d196e2e25b85b78da9&width=360&height=203&smart=true)
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:
PLAYER | Number of points |
---|---|
1. Lionel Messi | 462 |
2. Erling Haaland | 357 |
3. Kylian Mbappé | 270 |
4. Kevin De Bruyne | 100 |
5. Rodri | 57 |
6. Vinicius Junior | 49 |
7. Julián Álvarez | 28 |
8. Victor Osimhen | 24 |
9. Bernardo Silva | 20 |
10. Luka Modric | 19 |
2023 Men’s Ballon d’Or: who voted for who?
Every country's top pick for Men's Ballon d'Or
- Albania: Messi
- Algeria: Haaland
- Argentina: Messi
- Armenia: Messi
- Australia: Messi
- Austria: Messi
- Bahrain: Haaland
- Belgium: Messi
- Benin: Haaland
- Belarus: Messi
- Bolivia: Messi
- Bosnia-Herzegovina: Messi
- Brazil: Messi
- Bulgaria: Mbappé
- Cameroon: Mbappé
- Canada: Messi
- Cape Verde: Haaland
- Chile: Messi
- China: Messi
- Colombia: Messi
- Costa Rica: Messi
- Croatia: Messi
- Czech Republic: Mbappé
- Denmark: Haaland
- Ecuador: Mbappé
- Equatorial Guinea: Messi
- England: Messi
- Egypt: Messi
- El Salvador: Haaland
- Finland: Messi
- France: Haaland
- Gabon: Haaland
- Georgia: Messi
- Germany: Messi
- Ghana: Haaland
- Greece: Haaland
- Guinea: Haaland
- Honduras: Messi
- Hungary: Messi
- Iceland: Haaland
- India: Messi
- Iran: Messi
- Iraq: Messi
- Israel: Messi
- Italy: Messi
- Ivory Coast: Mbappé
- Jamaica: Messi
- Japan: Haaland
- Jordan: Haaland
- Kyrgyzstan: Haaland
- Lebanon: Messi
- Luxembourg: Messi
- Mexico: Messi
- Montenegro: Messi
- Morocco: Messi
- Netherlands: Haaland
- Nigeria: Messi
- Northern Ireland: Messi
- North Macedonia: Haaland
- Norway: Haaland
- Oman: Messi
- Palestine: Messi
- Panama: Messi
- Paraguay: Messi
- Peru: Messi
- Poland: Messi
- Portugal: Bernardo Silva
- Romania: Messi
- Qatar: Messi
- Rep. of Ireland: Messi
- Russia: Messi
- Saudi Arabia: Messi
- Scotland: Messi
- Senegal: Haaland
- Slovakia: Haaland
- Slovenia: Messi
- South Africa: Messi
- South Korea: Messi
- Spain: Messi
- Sweden: Messi
- Switzerland: Haaland
- Tunisia: Messi
- Turkey: Messi
- UAE: Messi
- Uganda: Messi
- Ukraine: Messi
- Uruguay: Messi
- USA: Messi
- Venezuela: Messi
- Vietnam: Messi
- Wales: Messi
- Zambia: Messi
![No player has won more Ballons d'Or than Messi.](https://img.asmedia.epimg.net/resizer/v2/AV5ZTHUWVQD74SPUFGBWCGC5EQ.jpg?auth=3957efff93eb911c2afbc82541f911befe21d39a71ec98e312f42525f20dd708&width=360)
2023 Women’s Ballon d’Or top 10 - total points:
PLAYER | Number of points |
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1. Aitana Bonmatí | 266 |
2. Sam Kerr | 87 |
3. Salma Paralluelo | 49 |
4. Fridolina Rolfö | 49 |
5. Mary Earps | 42 |
6. Olga Carmona | 32 |
7. Alexandra Popp | 27 |
8. Patri Guijarro | 25 |
9. Linda Caicedo | 19 |
10. Rachel Daly | 17 |
2023 Women’s Ballon d’Or: who voted for who?
Every country's top pick for Women's Ballon d'Or
- Argentina: Bonmatí
- Australia: Kerr
- Austria: Bonmatí
- Belgium: Bonmatí
- Brazil: Bonmatí
- Canada: Bonmatí
- Chile: Kerr
- China: Bonmatí
- Colombia: Bonmatí
- Costa Rica: Bonmatí
- Czech Republic: Bonmatí
- Denmark: Bonmatí
- England: Bonmatí
- Finland: Bonmatí
- France: Bonmatí
- Germany: Bonmatí
- Hungary: Bonmatí
- Iceland: Bonmatí
- Italy: Bonmatí
- Jamaica: Paralluelo
- Japan: Bonmatí
- Mexico: Bonmatí
- Netherlands: Kerr
- New Zealand: Bonmatí
- Nigeria: Bonmatí
- Norway: Bonmatí
- Northern Ireland: Bonmatí
- Paraguay: Bonmatí
- Philippines: Bonmatí
- Poland: Bonmatí
- Portugal: Bonmatí
- Rep. of Ireland: Bonmatí
- Romania: Bonmatí
- Russia: Carmona
- Scotland: Bonmatí
- Serbia: Bonmatí
- Slovakia: Bonmatí
- Slovenia: Bonmatí
- South Africa: Bonmatí
- South Korea: Bonmatí
- Spain: Bonmatí
- Sweden: Bonmatí
- Switzerland: Bonmatí
- Ukraine: Bonmatí
- USA: Bonmatí
- Vietnam: Bonmatí
- Wales: Bonmatí
![The Women's Ballon d'Or has now been won by a Spaniard three times in a row.](https://img.asmedia.epimg.net/resizer/v2/I7ELV4Z4WMJKMJ5ZAEEYQGJ6XA.jpg?auth=1a3e9b45e873cf0d7a7b3f1b9b3c0a367da4fb96ca5eddf8029dd0b060fbba79&width=360)
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