Ballon D'or 2016 - Names of Players Shortlisted for 2016 Ballon D'or Title

The FIFA Ballon d’or is an award given to the best footballer of the football year. It is a merger of the France Football’s Ballon d’or and the FIFA World Player of the Year award. The FIFA Ballon d’or is awarded based on votes from international journalists and national team coaches and captains, who selected the players they deemed to have performed the best in the previous calendar year.

The 2016 Ballon D’or contestants have been released by France Football. The first list contains 10 names while the remaining 20 will be released later. The award since inception has been shared by both Lionel Messi (2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015), and Cristiano Ronaldo (2013 and 2014). It remains to be seen whether any of them would win the trophy or a new face breaking the monopoly.

LIONEL MESSI and Cristiano Ronaldo are likely to go head-to-head for a ninth consecutive year but who else is in the running for the 2016 Ballon d'Or?

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Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi were included and are expected to fight it out once more for the accolade they have shared each year since 2007.
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2016 is swiftly coming to an end, and it was another momentous year in football, from Leicester City's unbelievable title triumph in England

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