Ballon d'Or 2025 winner odds: The current favourites

After winning the Champions League with PSG, Ousmane Demeble is the sole favourite in the latest 2025 Ballon d'Or winner odds released by Ladbrokes, despite several impressive Lamine Yamal performances.

Heading into the Champions League semi-final second-legs, Yamal and Raphinha were the two favourites to win the Ballon d'Or in October, but Dembele overtook both after Barcelona were knocked out of the competition and PSG went on to win in the final.

Yamal isn't far behind according to the bookies, and he's going to be in the Ballon d'Or conversation for the next decade, but the latest odds suggest the prestigious award is going to go home with Dembele.

Salah, run-away PFA Player of the Year award winner after winning the league with Liverpool, is viewed by the bookies as the third-favourite to win the prestigious trophy come the end of the year, behind Yamal and Dembele.

Considering the fantastic campaign Salah had in the Premier League with the new champions Liverpool, it's not hard to see why.

Rodri pipped Vinicius to the post and won the 2024 Ballon d'Or at the ceremony on October 28, and the latest odds suggest the Real Madrid man is going to miss out on the award again this year.

In fact, Vini isn't even in the top nine favourites to win the Ballon d'Or this season, with Raphinha, Dembele, Yamal, Salah, Lautaro Martinez, Pedri, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Robert Lewandowski and Kylian Mbappe all more likely.

With PSG winning the Champions League, Dembele's chances of winning the competition and the Ballon d'Or are only growing.

Below are the outsiders to win this year's Ballon d'Or, after the nine favourites. The names below include the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Declan Rice, Jude Bellingham and arguably the greatest player of all time, Lionel Messi.

Bukayo Saka of Arsenal is also priced with the same odds as Vinicius Jr, and that's surprising considering how little football the winger has been able to play this year due to injury.

With the longest odds of winning this year's Ballon d'Or is Scott McTominay, but the fact that he's even in the conversation is a testament to how well the former Man United man has done since joining Napoli last summer.

Given that he's one of the favourites for the Ballon d'Or, it's not surprising that Salah is also the favourite to win the Golden Boot this year, having scored 29 Premier League goals in his 38 outings for his club in domestic league action.

Ladbrokes has looked at how the various Ballon d'Or candidates have performed this season, with our team of experts giving their verdict on who should be given the prestigious award.

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All odds and markets are correct as of the date of publication.