Spain and Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmati has made historical past by turning into the primary participant to win the ladies’s Ballon d’Or 3 times.

Bonmati, 27, took the award along with her worldwide team-mate, Arsenal winger Mariona Caldentey, coming second.

There have been 5 England gamers within the prime 10. Arsenal trio Alessia Russo, Chloe Kelly and Leah Williamson got here third, fifth and seventh respectively, with Chelsea duo Lucy Bronze and Hannah Hampton ninth and tenth.

Bonmati additionally received the award in 2023 and 2024. It means Barcelona gamers have received the honour in every of the previous 5 years after midfielder Alexia Putellas earned the prize in 2021 and 2022.

Talking on stage, Bonmati, who acquired the award from Barcelona legend Andres Iniesta, stated: “My third time in a row right here, and I nonetheless cannot imagine it. Unimaginable. Thanks to France Soccer for this, for the third time – it actually may have gone to anybody.

“If it was doable to share it I might, as a result of I believe it has been a yr with an exceptionally excessive degree, above all amongst my team-mates, who had a fantastic yr.

“Additionally to obtain it from the fingers of Andres Iniesta, one in every of my idols since I used to be little, alongside Xavi. I realized my soccer from them – to this present day I thank them for all that they’ve taught me. Thanks to them for the whole lot that they’ve carried out in soccer.

“I owe Barcelona the whole lot – that is the membership of my life. I hope to symbolize this badge for a lot of extra years.”

The award, formally known as the Ballon d’Or Feminin, recognises the most effective footballer of the yr and is voted for by a jury of journalists.

Exterior the highest 10, Arsenal defenders Emily Fox and Steph Catley got here twenty fifth and twenty ninth respectively, with midfielder Frida Maanum ending twenty seventh. Chelsea pair Sandy Baltimore and Johanna Rytting Kaneryd completed fifteenth and twenty third, whereas former Blues midfielder Pernille Tougher was twentieth.

Scotland and Actual Madrid midfielder Caroline Weir completed thirtieth within the vote.

It was a nice evening for the Lionesses as supervisor Sarina Wiegman received the ladies’s coach award and Chelsea’s Hannah Hampton was named finest girls’s goalkeeper.