<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2fzCwH_0wLyxzri00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2fzCwH_0wLyxzri00" width="1440" height="810" >The Ballon d’Or will go to a new home this year, guaranteed, when the 2024 award is handed out Monday in France.Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, and Luka Modric are all off the shortlist and the only players to win the award since Kaka took home the honor in 2007.[ BALLON D’OR: Men’s shortlist | Women’s shortlist ]The 30-man shortlist is deep and talented but Real Madrid’s Vinicius Junior and Manchester City’s Rodri are the favorites to take home the honor of being named the best male footballer in the world.For the third-straight season, the award will honor the best player from the 2023-24 season instead of the calendar year. Vini Jr was the star of the UEFA Champions League Final, while Rodri won the Premier League with Man City and EURO 2024 with Spain.<h2>When is the Ballon d’Or 2024 ceremony?</h2>The Ballon d’Or ceremony will be held at 2:45pm ET Monday, October 28, at theThéâtre du Châtelet in Paris<h2>How to watch the Ballon d’Or 2024 ceremony</h2>Time: 2:45pm ETDate: Monday, October 28Stream: L’Equipe’s YouTube channel<h2>Who has won more Ballons d’Or: Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo?</h2>Messi has won the most Ballons d’Or ever: 8. Ronaldo has the second-most with five.<h2>How many players have won multiple Ballons d’Or?</h2>After Messi’s eight and Ronaldo’s five, there are three players who have won three awards — Michel Platini, Johan Cruyff, and Marco van Basten — and five players have claimed two. Those players are Franz Beckenbauer, Ronaldo, Alfredo Di Stefano, Kevin Keegan, and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.<h2>List of all Ballon d’Or winners: 1961-present</h2>1956: Stanley Matthews — Blackpool and England1957: Alfredo Di Stafano — Real Madrid and Spain1958: Raymond Kopa — Real Madrid and France1959: Alfredo Di Stefano (2) — Real Madrid and Spain1960: Luis Suarez — Barcelona and Spain1961: Omar Sivori — Juventus and Italy1962: Josef Masopust — Dukla Prague and Czechoslovakia1963: Lev Yashin — Dynamo Moscow and USSR1964: Denis Law — Manchester United and Scotland1965: Eusebio — Benfica and Portugal1966: Bobby Charlton — Manchester United and England1967: Florian Albert — Ferencvaros and Hungary1968: George Best — Manchester United and Northern Ireland1969: Gianni Rivera — AC Milan and Italy1970: Gerd Muller — Bayern Munich and Germany1971: Johan Cruyff — Ajax and Netherlands1972: Franz Beckenbauer — Bayern Munich and West Germany1973: Johan Cruyff (2) — Barcelona and Netherlands1974: Johan Cruyff (3) — Barcelona and Netherlands1975: Oleg Blokhin — Dynamo Kyiv and USSR1976: Franz Beckenbauer (2) — Bayern Munich and West Germany1977: Allan Simonsen — Borussia Monchengladbach and Denmark1978: Kevin Keegan — Hamburg and England1979: Kevin Keegan (2) — Hamburg and England1980: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge — Bayern Munich and West Germany1981: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (2) — Bayern Munich and West Germany1982: Paolo Rossi — Juventus and Italy1983: Michel Platini — France and Juventus1984: Michel Platini (2) — France and Juventus1985: Michel Platini (3) — France and Juventus1986: Igor Belanov — Dynamo Kyiv and USSR1987: Ruud Gullit — AC Milan and Netherlands1988: Marco van Basten — AC Milan and Netherlands1989: Marco van Basten (2) — AC Milan and Netherlands1990: Lothar Matthaus — Inter Milan and Germany1991: Jean-Pierre Papin — Marseille and France1992: Marco van Basten (3) — AC Milan and Netherlands1993: Roberto Baggio — Juventus and Italy1994: Hristo Stoichkov — Barcelona and Bulgaria1995: George Weah — AC Milan and Liberia1996: Matthias Sammer — Borussia Dortmund and Germany1997: Ronaldo — Inter Milan and Brazil1998: Zinedine Zidane — Juventus and France1999: Rivaldo — Barcelona and Brazil2000: Luis Figo — Real Madrid and Portugal2001: Michael Owen — Liverpool and England2002: Ronaldo (2) — Real Madrid and Brazil2003: Pavel Nedved — Juventus and Czech Republic2004: Andriy Shevchenko — AC Milan and Ukraine2005: Ronaldinho — Barcelona and Brazil2006: Fabio Cannavaro — Real Madrid and Italy2007: Kaka — AC Milan and Brazil2008: Cristiano Ronaldo — Manchester United and Portugal2009: Lionel Messi — Barcelona and Argentina2010: Lionel Messi (2) — Barcelona and Argentina2011: Lionel Messi (3) — Barcelona and Argentina2012: Lionel Messi (4) — Barcelona and Argentina2013: Cristiano Ronaldo (2) — Real Madrid and Portugal2014: Cristiano Ronaldo (3) — Real Madrid and Portugal2015: Lionel Messi (5) — Barcelona and Argentina2016: Cristiano Ronaldo (4) — Real Madrid and Portugal2017: Cristiano Ronaldo (5) — Real Madrid and Portugal2018: Luka Modric — Real Madrid and Croatia2019: Lionel Messi (6) — Barcelona and Argentina2020: Not awarded due to COVID-19 pandemic2021: Lionel Messi (7) — Paris Saint-Germain and Argentina2022: Karim Benzema — Real Madrid and France2023: Lionel Messi (8) — Inter Miami and Argentina2024: TBD, Oct. 28</div></body>

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The Ballon d’Or will go to a new home this year, guaranteed, when the 2024 award is handed out Monday in France. Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, and Luka Modric are all off the shortlist and the only players to win the award since Kaka took home the honor in 2007.

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