Ballon d'Or nominees selection including Benzema and Ronaldo - NO Lionel Messi

Ballon d'Or nominees revealed including Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo - NO Lionel Messi

 Lionel Messi is the current holder of the men's award and the record seven- time winner has NOT been nominated this time. 

 Five- time winner Cristiano Ronaldo, however, is included as well as his former Real Madrid teammate Karim Benzema, who's the inviting favourite to win the men's award this time for the first time. 

 Benzema scored 44 pretensions in 46 games for Madrid last season to help the Spanish side palm both the titleholders League and La Liga last season under Carlo Ancelotti. 

 PSG star Kylian Mbappe is the bookies' alternate favourite to win the men's award, with Liverpool's Mohamed Salah and Bayern Munich's Sadio Mane also allowed to be in contention. 

 Barcelona captain Alexia Putellas is the current holder of the women's award. She's among the favourites to win it for a alternate consecutive time. 

 Chelsea forward Sam Kerr and Arsenal striker Vivienne Miedema are also over for the award, as are a number of England's victorious Euro 2022 team, including Lucy Citation, Beth Mead and Millie Bright. 

 Both the winners of the men's and women's awards will be revealed at a form on October 17. 

 Check out the full list of appointees below 

 Men's Ballond'Or award 2022 appointees :

Thibaut Courtois, 

Rafael Leao, 

Christopher Nkunku, 

Mohamed Salah, 

Joshua Kimmich,

Trent Alexander- Arnold,

Vinicius Junior,

Bernardo Silva,

Luis Diaz,

Robert Lewandowski, 

Riyad Mahrez, Casemiro, 

Son Heung- min, 

Fabinho, 

Karim Benzema, 

Mike Maignan, 

Harry Kane, 

Darwin Nunez, 

Phil Foden, 

Sadio Mane, 

Sébastien Haller, 

Luka Modric, 

Antonio Rudiger, 

Cristiano Ronaldo, 

Kevin De Bruyne, 

Dusan Vlahovic, 

Virgil van Dijk, 

João Cancelo, 

Kylian Mbappe,

Erling Haaland 

 Women's Ballond'Or 2022 award appointees :  

Selma Bacha, Fridolina Rolfo, Vivianne Miedema, Lucy Citation, Sam Kerr, Christiane Endler, Lena Oberdorf, Kadidiatou Diani, Catarina Macario, Alexia Putellas, Alexandra Popp, Aitana Bonmati, Wendie Renard, Alex Morgan, Beth Mead, Asisat Oshoala, Marie- Antoinette Katoto, Millie Bright, Trinity Rodman, Ada Hegerberg 

 Kopa jewel appointees Karim Adeyemi( Borussia Dortmund), Jude Bellingham( Borussia Dortmund), Eduardo Camavinga( Real Madrid), Gavi( Barcelona), Ryan Gravenberch( Bayern Munich), Nuno Mendes( PSG), Jamal Musiala( Bayern Munich), Josko Gvardiol( RB Leipzig), Bukayo Saka( Arsenal), Florian Wirtz( Bayer Leverkusen) 

 

 Yashin jewel appointees Yassine Bounou( Sevilla), Alisson Becker( Liverpool), Thibaut Courtois( Real Madrid), Ederson( Manchester City), Mike Maignan( AC Milan), Edouard Mendy( Chelsea), Manuel Neuer( Bayern Munich), Jan Oblak( Atletico Madrid), Kevin Trapp( Eintracht Frankfurt), Hugo Lloris( Tottenham)