Ballon d’Or 2021: France Football unveils award power rankings [Top 30]
France Football have unveiled the 30-man rankings for the 2021 Ballon d’ Or award on Monday night.
Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez made it to 20th-place on the rankings on the back of his excellent performance last season.
Mason Mount, who won the Champions League with Chelsea in May, finished 19th in his first-ever Ballon d’Or appearance.
Luka Modric and Cesar Azpilicueta shared 29th-place for the 2021 Ballon d’ Or, while Nicolo Barella, Gerard Moreno and Ruben Dias were ranked 26th.
England captain, Harry Kane, finished in 23rd-place, with Man United’s Bruno Fernandes and Inter Milan’s Lautaro Martinez sharing 21st-place above him.
Full list of 2021 Ballon d’ Or power rankings:
29th – Real Madrid’s Luka Modric and Chelsea’s Cesar Azpilicueta.
26th – Villarreal’s Gerard Moreno, Manchester City’s Ruben Dias, and Inter Milan’s Nicolo Barella.
25th – Manchester City’s Phil Foden
24th – Barcelona’s Pedri
23rd – Tottenham’s Harry Kane
21st – Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes and Inter Milan’s Lautaro Martinez.
20th – Man City’s Riyad Mahrez.
19th – Chelsea’s Mason Mount.
18th – AC Milan’s Simon Kjaer
17th – Atletico Madrid’s Luis Suarez.
16th – PSG’s Neymar
15th – Man City’s Raheem Sterling
14th – Juventus’s Leonardo Bonucci
13th – Juventus’s Giorgio Chiellini
12th – Chelsea’s Romelu Lukaku
11th – Dortmund’s Erling Haaland
10th – PSG’s Gianluigi Donnarumma
9th – PSG’s Kylian Mbappe
8th – Man City’s Kevin De Bruyne
7th – Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah
6th – Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo
5th – Chelsea’s N’Golo Kante
4th – Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema
3rd – Chelsea’s Jorginho
2nd – Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski
1st – PSG’s Lionel Messi