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Ballon d'Or points totals revealed as Harry Kane pips Kylian Mbappe by fine margin

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Ferridge, A. (2026, October 30). Ballon d'Or points totals revealed as Harry Kane pips Kylian Mbappe by fine margin. Evening Standard. https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/ballon-d-or-points-totals-revealed-kane-mbappe-b1303019.html

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Evening Standard · collected 2026-10-30 · by Arthur Ferridge

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The article reports that Harry Kane won the Ballon d'Or award with a total of 1055 points, narrowly beating Kylian Mbappe who received 1027 points. The voting was conducted by 100 journalists for the men's category and 50 for the women's category. In the women’s ranking, Alexia Putellas won with 618 points, followed closely by Ewa Pajor with 532 points.
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Harry Kane, an English striker for German club Bayern Munich, won the prestigious Ballon d'Or award on October 26, 2026, breaking a 25-year drought since Michael Owen's last win. The announcement was made in London during the ceremony, with Kane scoring an impressive 73 goals across all competitions in the previous season, making him Europe’s top scorer. He narrowly edged out Kylian Mbappé by a close margin of points according to later reports from France Football journal L’Équipe on October 30, cementing his status as one of the game's greatest goalscorers and playmakers.

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Bayern Munich Briton England France Football L’Equipe

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Mbappe PERSON · 3× Briton NORP · 2× Ewa Pajor PERSON · 2× Kane PERSON · 2× Bayern Munich ORG · 1× England GPE · 1× France Football ORG · 1× L’Equipe ORG · 1× Michael Owen PERSON · 1× Real Madrid ORG · 1×

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Putellas, crowned for her work with Barcelona, has since joined WSL upstarts London City Lionesses and pipped Ewa Pajor by a wider margin of 86 points, decided by 50 journalists.
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2026-10-30 · Evening Standard
Ballon d'Or points totals revealed as Harry Kane pips Kylian Mbappe by fine margin · assertive framing

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The England and Bayern Munich striker Kane was the odds-on favourite to win football’s top individual honour and outlasted a late surge from Mbappe. asserted
striker → win → Mbappe
In doing so he became the first Briton since Michael Owen in 2001 to take the prize. asserted
he → do → prize
The voting totals were not revealed on the day of the honour, but have now been released and show just how competitive the award really was. asserted
award → reveal → honour
The 100 voting journalists elected by France Football handed the Briton a points total of 1055, which beat second-placed Mbappe by a remarkably fine margin of 28 points. asserted
which → elect → points
Per L’Equipe, three of the voting journalists did not even name the Real Madrid striker in their top ten finishers. asserted
three → name → finishers
Kane’s is the tightest winning margin since Lionel Messi’s 686 points bested Virgil van Dijk’s 679 seven years ago. asserted
points → best → 679
Putellas, crowned for her work with Barcelona, has since joined WSL upstarts London City Lionesses and pipped Ewa Pajor by a wider margin of 86 points, decided by 50 journalists. asserted
Putellas → crown → journalists
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