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

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)

Spain (Alfredo Relaño)

Ukraine (Igor Linnyk)

Mexico (Salvador Aguilera)

Ecuador (Patricio Corneiro Garcés)

Croatia (Zdravko Reic)

Albania (Besnik Dizdari)

Chile (Danilo Díaz)

Scotland (John Greechan)

Brazil (Cleber Machado)

Italy (Paolo Condo)

Norway (Lars Tjaernaas)

Czechia (Stanislav Hrabe)

Venezuela (Francisco Blavia)

China (Luo Ming)

Panama (Campo Estrada)

Mexico (Salvador Aguilera)

Morocco (Mostafa Badri)

Ecuatorial Guinea (Fernando Abeso)

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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.