With the 2025 Ballon d’Or nominees now revealed, we look at the key stats behind the 30 players who are in contention for the men’s award in September.
Jude Bellingham
Bellingham scored 15 goals and assisted 14 more for Real Madrid between August 2024 and July 2025, making him one of just six La Liga players to reach double figures for both goals and assists across all competitions in that time.
He also ranked third among La Liga players for open-play chances created in this period (97), behind only Raphinha (120) and Vinícius Júnior (107).
Ousmane Dembélé
Paris Saint-Germain star Dembélé either scored (35) or assisted (14) 49 goals in 53 competitive appearances for the French club between August 2024 and the end of July 2025. Fourteen of those goal involvements came in the 2024-25 UEFA Champions League, which PSG won for the first time.
Gianluigi Donnarumma
Donnarumma kept a clean sheet in over a third of his competitive appearances for PSG between August 2024 and the end of July 2025 (34%), keeping out 71% of opposition shots over a season in which the French club won the Ligue 1 and UEFA Champions League titles.
Désiré Doué
Doué played a key part in Paris-Saint Germain’s phenomenal 2024-25 season. The 20-year-old was involved in 30 goals across all competitions between August 2024 and the end of July 2025 (16 goals, 14 assists) – only Lamine Yamal (39) was involved in more competitive goals while aged under 21.
Denzel Dumfries
Internazionale’s Dumfries scored 11 competitive goals between August 2024 and July 2025 – no defender from the top five European leagues managed more.
He netted twice and got three assists across Inter’s two-legged Champions League semi-final against Barcelona, becoming only the third player to contribute 5+ goals in one UCL semi tie.
Serhou Guirassy
Guirassy plundered 13 goals in 14 UEFA Champions League appearances last season for Borussia Dortmund, finishing 2024-25 as the UCL’s joint-top goalscorer alongside Raphinha.
He converted an exceptional 32% of his shots in the competition, helping him score more goals in a single UCL/European Cup campaign than any other BVB player in history.
Viktor Gyökeres
The Swedish striker scored an outstanding 54 goals in 52 appearances for Sporting CP in 2024-25.
Thirty-nine of those came in the Primeira Liga, the highest tally by any player in the Portuguese top-flight since Mário Jardel for Sporting in 2001-02 (42). Gyokeres’ form earned him a move to Arsenal.
Erling Haaland
Haaland netted 34 goals in 48 appearances for Manchester City across all competitions between August 2024 and the end of July 2025 – no Premier League player scored more.
Of the 17 players to net at least 15 competitive goals for Premier League clubs in that timeframe, Haaland had the best minutes-per-goal ratio (119).
Achraf Hakimi
Full-back Hakimi created 108 chances from open play between August 2004 and the end of July 2025 across all competitions. That was more than any other defender to play for a club in the top five European leagues, while only Raphinha (120) created more among all players.
Harry Kane
Kane won his first-ever major trophy as Bayern Munich won the German Bundesliga crown in 2024-25. The English striker scored 26 goals in their title-winning campaign, winning the top scorer award in the competition for the second season running.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
The only player on this list to win two league title winners medals last season, Kvaratskhelia played a part in Napoli’s Serie A success as well as Paris Saint-Germain’s Ligue 1 victory, also lifting the Champions League in May.
Robert Lewandowski
No player scored more non-penalty goals than Barcelona forward Lewandowski (24) in Europe’s top five leagues last season (level with Kylian Mbappé). That’s quite an achievement at 36 years old.
Meanwhile, only Alexander Sørloth had a better minutes-per-goal ratio in La Liga in 2024-25 than Lewandowski’s goal every 93.5 minutes.
Alexis Mac Allister
The Liverpool midfielder started the most sequences leading to a goal in the Premier League last season (13), with six more than anyone else. He also started the second-most sequences leading to shots (49) and had the third highest xG from sequences he started (5.6).
Lautaro Martínez
Inter’s Argentine striker scored nine goals in the Champions League last season: a joint-record for an Inter player in a single campaign in the Champions League/European Cup, level with Hernán Crespo (nine in 2002-03).
Kylian Mbappé
Some dared to question the French superstar during his first season at Real Madrid, but he ultimately scored more goals than any other player in Europe’s top five leagues last season (31). Mbappé also scored the joint-most non-penalty goals along with Robert Lewandowski.
Scott McTominay
Serie A’s Player of the Season scored eight goals to break a 0-0 deadlock for Napoli last season, more than anyone else in the competition, while he was also the overall top scorer among midfielders (12).
Nuno Mendes
The energetic PSG left-back won the most duels (119), made the second-most tackles (48), and made the joint-second most interceptions (23) in the Champions League last season (119).
Joao Neves
PSG’s young midfield star made the most tackles in the Champions League last season (57) and won the second most duels (107). Only five players made more than his eight assists in Ligue 1, as well.
Michael Olise
It’s not often that Bayern Munich sign a player from Crystal Palace, but the German side will be glad they did. Olise created the most big chances in Europe’s top five leagues last season, and was second for assists (15), expected assists (12.5) and chances created from open play (75).
Cole Palmer
The man they call “Cold Palmer” recorded five goal involvements across two major finals for Chelsea, with two assists in the Conference League final win over Real Betis, before two goals and an assist in the Club World Cup final victory against PSG.
Pedri
Pedri, 22, made more line-breaking passes in behind the opposition’s defence while under pressure from an opponent (11) than any other player in the Champions League in 2024-25.
He also ranked top of Europe’s top five leagues for playing the pass before a chance was created, having done so 58 times in 2024-25.
Raphinha
Of players from Europe’s top five leagues between 1 August 2024 and 31 July 2025, only Mohamed Salah (57) registered more goal involvements in all competitions than Raphinha (56 – 34 goals, 22 assists).
The Brazilian also equalled Cristiano Ronaldo’s record of 21 for the most goal involvements in a Champions League season, and came within one assist of equalling Luis Figo’s record of nine for the most assists in a season in the competition.
Declan Rice
Caught the eye in a more advanced role for Arsenal, and 2024-25 was his best ever season for goals (9), assists (10) and chances created (82) at club level. Rice also became the first player to score two direct free-kicks in a Champions League knockout match with his two sensational efforts against Real Madrid in the quarter-finals.
Fabián Ruiz
Maintained a pass success rate of 90.3% over almost 4,000 minutes in all competitions over the period in question, playing in every game in PSG’s run to Champions League glory. He also scored some key goals, including one in the Champions League semi-final against Arsenal and two in the Club World Cup semi-final against Real Madrid.
Mohamed Salah
Salah registered at least 13 more goal involvements than any other player in Europe’s top five leagues in 2024-25 (47), breaking the record for a 38-game Premier League season in the process (previously jointly held at 44 by Thierry Henry in 2002-03 and Erling Haaland in 2022-23).
Virgil van Dijk
Only two players made more line-breaking passes in the Premier League in 2024-25 than Van Dijk (403). The Liverpool captain topped the division for the number of passes he played which broke all three lines of the opposition’s structure, with 10.
Vinícius Jr.
In all competitions between August 2024 and July 2025, Vinícius recorded more carries (moving at least five metres with the ball) that he followed up with a goal or assist (20) than any other player from Europe’s top five leagues. He also created more chances following a carry (55) than anyone else.
Vitinha
Vitinha made more line-breaking passes while under pressure from an opponent within four metres of him (137) than any other player in the Champions League in 2024-25. Also, nobody in the competition made more than Vitinha’s four line-breaking passes that led to his side scoring a goal within 10 seconds.
Florian Wirtz
Only Mohamed Salah (18) and Lamine Yamal (13) recorded more than Wirtz’s 12 assists from open play in Europe’s top five leagues. The German was also one of only six players from those competitions to reach double figures for both goals (10) and assists (12).
Lamine Yamal
Yamal, who only turned 18 last month, ranked first in Europe’s top five leagues in 2024-25 for carries followed by a shot (56) and carries followed by a chance created (35). He also completed 161 successful dribbles – 54 more than anyone else in Europe’s top five leagues.
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