Harry Kane wins Ballon d'Or

Harry Kane has won the 2026 Ballon d'Or, awarded to the best player in the world over the previous season.

He is the first British player to win the award in 25 years.

Below are the top 30 rankings in full.


1. Harry Kane - Bayern Munich & England
2. Kylian Mbappe - Real Madrid & France
3. Lamine Yamal - Barcelona & Spain
4. Rodri - Barcelona & Spain
5. Lionel Messi - Inter Miami & Argentina
6. Kvicha Kvaratskhelia - PSG & Georgia
7. Ousmane Dembele - PSG & France
8. Erling Haaland - Man City & Norway
9. Michael Olise - Bayern Munich & France
10. Fabian Ruiz - PSG & Spain
11. Jude Bellingham - Real Madrid & England
12. Pau Cubarsi - Barcelona & Spain
13. Achraf Hakimi - PSG & Morocco
14. Vitinha - PSG & Portugal
15. Declan Rice - Arsenal & England
16. Ferran Torres - PSG & Spain
17. Vinicius Jr - Real Madrid & Brazil
18. Marc Cucurella - Real Madrid & Spain
19. Joao Neves - PSG & Portugal
20. Willian Pacho - PSG & Ecuador
21. Gabriel - Arsenal & Brazil
22. Lautaro Martinez - Inter & Argentina
23. Nuno Mendes - PSG & Portugal
24. Luis Diaz - Bayern Munich & Colombia
25. Marquinhos - PSG & Brazil
26. Dayot Upamecano - Bayern Munich & France
27. Bruno Fernandes - Man Utd & Portugal
28. Julian Quinones - Al Qadsiah & Mexico
29. Sadio Mane - Al Nassr & Senegal
29. William Saliba - Arsenal & France

Rumour online that the winner has been leaked and it's Mbappe, personally i'd love to see Kane win it

Rumour online that the winner has been leaked and it's Mbappe, personally i'd love to see Kane win it

Kane would be my choice too, followed by Mbappe. Yamal will win plenty of these awards in his career but don't think it'll be him this year.

Put a tenner on Moylan for next season

Harry Kane has won the 2026 Ballon d'Or, awarded to the best player in the world over the previous season.

He is the first British player to win the award in 25 years.

It'll be a disgrace if it doesn't go to Kane. 61 goals in 51 games at elite level is outrageous.

Ballon D'or winner !

Congratulations Harry, very well deserved

Harry Kane, officially best player in the world, he deserves it

Didn't expect to hear Russell Slade's name at the Ballon d'Or ceremony

Absolutely fantastic! Congratulations to Harry Kane on an incredible award!


Overview:

• Winner: Harry Kane (Bayern Munich / England)
• Key Stats (2025/26): 73 goals and 8 assists in 65 games across club and country
• Milestones: First Englishman to win the award since Michael Owen in 2001

Well deserved - He has got better since leaving Spurs for me for both Bayern and England .

Well deserved - He has got better since leaving Spurs for me for both Bayern and England .

100% and I rated him at Spurs!

Well deserved - He has got better since leaving Spurs for me for both Bayern and England .

Turned out to be a great move for him. Well deserved.

Well Deserved

Russell Slade and Kenny JACKet both getting name dropped...

Much deserved for Harry, but how the f**k does Olise finish so low down?
He deserved to be close second or third at worst.

Olise has been absolute fire for club and country esp for assists since leaving Palace.

As for the show itself, talk about face palm...

Love watching Kate and Co on Paramount for the ChampsLge shows but the atmosphere was awful, the jokes were cringeworthy and non landed with the audience.
And the heckling towards the end was funny as fk to watch em struggle with

Must be wrong can't see Jack Moylan in that list.

Anyone see/hear Dean Ashton on talk sport?

Talk about sour grapes

Claiming Kane is nothing special and apparently he could do anything Kane can

He's getting stick on social media now

Where's jack moylan ???

Anyone see/hear Dean Ashton on talk sport?

Talk about sour grapes

Claiming Kane is nothing special and apparently he could do anything Kane can

He's getting stick on social media now

Stopped listening to TalkSport years ago, don't know if they even believe what they say most of the time.

Probably a lot of jealousy involved from other strikers, Troy Deeney has said similar.

What they don't realise is their attitude like that is exactly why Kane is liked and is a popular winner.

He doesn't go around talking himself up, he just gets on with it. The likes of Mbappe and Yamal were saying in the build up to this that they should win, but Kane said nothing. Fans appreciate that about him.

Anyone see/hear Dean Ashton on talk sport?

Talk about sour grapes

Claiming Kane is nothing special and apparently he could do anything Kane can

He's getting stick on social media now

Stopped listening to TalkSport years ago, don't know if they even believe what they say most of the time.

Probably a lot of jealousy involved from other strikers, Troy Deeney has said similar.

What they don't realise is their attitude like that is exactly why Kane is liked and is a popular winner.

He doesn't go around talking himself up, he just gets on with it. The likes of Mbappe and Yamal were saying in the build up to this that they should win, but Kane said nothing. Fans appreciate that about him.

Yes i seen that and I'm glad none of them won it

Kane deserves it

Hes had a great year ,deserves it

Harry Kane has taken the scenic route to the Ballon d'Or - a road littered with doubts and diversions, but one that eventually led to the ultimate destination: being crowned as the world's best player.

The 33-year-old's glory at the London Palladium on Monday is fitting reward for an exemplary career that has seen records fall at his feet for England, Tottenham Hotspur and Bayern Munich.

Kane is England's top goalscorer with 91 goals. He has 125 England caps, joint-highest with Peter Shilton. He is Spurs' record scorer with 280 goals in 435 appearances. He scored a remarkable 73 goals in 65 games for Bayern Munich and England during the 2025–26 season.

This is the Kane of recent vintage, the world-class striker and complete footballer who beat Real Madrid and France striker Kylian Mbappe, as well as Spain's teenage Barcelona forward Lamine Yamal, to the sport's biggest personal honour.

Kane's humility has seen him described as an 'anti-superstar' and his achievement has been commended both inside and outside the football world.

One post on social media from Kane as he celebrated the greatest moment of his career said it all: "Work hard in silence. Let success be your noise."

And yet, Kane's journey was not always smooth.

It was one that started with loan moves around the lower divisions with Leyton Orient, Millwall, Norwich City and Leicester City before he developed into a great for club and country.

The same Kane sat on the bench on loan at Leicester City – alongside future England team-mate Jamie Vardy – when the Foxes lost a dramatic Championship play-off at Watford in May 2013.

Kane went through hard schools and hard times away from his more familiar environment at Spurs, joining Orient on loan as a 17-year-old in January 2011, playing 18 games with nine starts and scoring five goals.

He joined Millwall in similar circumstances a year later, with some behind the scenes at Spurs fearing the traditionally hostile atmosphere at the New Den might intimidate the teenager, but he acquitted himself well, scoring nine goals in 24 starts.

Former Spurs manager Tim Sherwood said: "I used to watch Harry a lot at Millwall and it was an intimidating atmosphere. I remember overhearing one of our scouts come and talk to Harry Redknapp - who was Spurs manager at the time - and say: 'We need to get Harry Kane out of Millwall, it's no good for him there'.

"I went straight in and said: 'This is the perfect atmosphere for him'."

Kane made his Spurs debut in August 2012 before a spell at Norwich City, where he failed to score in three starts and suffered a serious foot injury.

It was an unhappy time but Chris Hughton, the former Spurs defender who was manager at Carrow Road, said: "What I saw in him was a desire to do well. Did I see him having the mobility and flexibility he has in his game now? Probably not. He was a very good finisher. He would stay out after training for half an hour every day, left foot, right foot."

Next stop was Leicester City between February and May 2013, when he made five starts and scored two goals, a stint best remembered for that dramatic Championship play-off game when Troy Deeney scored for Watford to send them to Wembley seconds after Anthony Knockaert's penalty was saved by Manuel Almunia.

Kane was not even selected in Leicester's starting line-up, only being sent on after 61 minutes. And who was alongside him on the bench? Vardy, who later won the Premier league with the Foxes and played alongside Kane for England.

He later admitted this was a time of self-doubt, saying: "That was probably the time in my career where it was the hardest - I was 19 and I was thinking, 'If I can't play for Norwich or for Leicester, even in the Championship, then how I am going to get back and play for Tottenham?'"