Four Arsenal players and four Man City players among nominees for Ballon D’Or award

The nominees for this year’s Ballon D’Or award, given to the footballer voted the best in the world, have been revealed.

Arsenal have four players named among the nominees for the men’s award – Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice, Martin Odegaard and William Saliba.

Man City also have four in Phil Foden, Ruben Dias, Erling Haaland and Rodri.

Chelsea’s Cole Palmer makes the list after a breakout debut season with the Blues in which he scored 27 goals in all competitions while assisting 15 times.

Aston Villa also have a nominee in goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez.

Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham are too named on the list of nominees – meaning there are six England players in total nominated for the men’s award.

Vinicius Jr, Rodri and Bellingham are currently among the favourites to win it.

It is also the first time in 21 years Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo have not been included.

The full list of men’s nominees:

Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid)

Phil Foden (Man City)

Ruben Dias (Man City)

Federico Valverde (Real Madrid)

Emiliano Martinez (Aston VIlla)

Erling Haaland (Man City)

Nicolas Williams (Athletic Bilbao)

Granit Xhaka (Bayer Leverkusen)

Artem Dovbik (Roma)

Toni Kroos (Real Madrid)

Vinicius Jr (Real Madrid)

Martin Odegaard (Arsenal)

Dani Olmo (Barcelona)

Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen)

Mats Hummels (Roma)

Rodri (Man City)

Declan Rice (Arsenal)

Harry Kane (Bayern Munich)

Cole Palmer (Chelsea)

Vitinha (PSG)

Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid)

William Saliba (Arsenal)

Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)

Bukayo Saka (Arsenal)

Hakan Calhanoglu (Inter)

Antonio Rudiger (Real Madrid)

Kylian Mbappe (Real Madrid)

Lautaro Martinez (Inter)

Ademola Lookman (Atalanta)

Alejandro Grimaldo (Bayer Leverkusen)

Full list of women’s nominees:

Aitana Bonmati (Spain and Barcelona)

Barbra Banda (Zambia and Orlando Pride)

Tarciane (Brazil and Houston Dash)

Lauren Hemp (England and Manchester City)

Trinity Rodman (United States and Washington Spirit)

Ada Hegerberg (Norway and Lyon)

Manuela Giugliano (Italy and Roma)

Mallory Swanson (United States and Chicago Red Stars)

Glodis Viggosdottir (Iceland and Bayern Munich)

Mariona Caldentey (Spain and Arsenal)

Lauren James (England and Chelsea)

Lea Schuller (Germany and Bayern Munich)

Patricia Guijarro (Spain and Barcelona)

Gabi Portilho (Brazil and Corinthians)

Tabitha Chawinga (Malawi and Lyon)

Caroline Graham Hansen (Norway and Barcelona)

Lindsey Horan (United States and Lyon)

Sjoeke Nusken (Germany and Chelsea)

Yui Hasegawa (Japan and Manchester City)

Lucy Bronze (England and Chelsea)

Salma Paralluelo (Spain and Barcelona)

Giulia Gwinn (Germany and Bayern Munich)

Khadija Shaw (Jamaica and Manchester City)

Grace Geyoro (France and Paris St-Germain)

Alexia Putellas (Spain and Barcelona)

Sophia Smith (United States and Portland Thorns)

Ewa Pajor (Poland and Barcelona)

Alyssa Naeher (United States and Chicago Red Stars)

Mayra Ramirez (Colombia and Chelsea)

Marie-Antoinette Katoto (France and Paris St-Germain)

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