The Ballon d’Or will undergo significant changes ahead of the next award ceremony.
France Football, the outlet that awards the Ballon d’Or at the end of each year, announced Friday that the award will now follow the regular European season rather than the calendar year.
That means that the next Ballon d’Or will encompass the 2021–22 season, which ends with the women’s Euros in July, and will not include the 2022 World Cup.
Among the other changes are restricting the voting to journalists from the first 100 nations in the FIFA world rankings for the men’s award and the first 50 in the rankings for the women.