Ballon d’Or odds 2023 as Lionel Messi, Erling Haaland top list of candidates for football award,With the 2022/23 football season reaching a finish, the fight for the Ballon d’Or is just heating up.
The Ballon d’Or for 2022/23 will take into account performances from August 2022 through July 2023 because the award’s timetable was altered by the organizers to include the customary European league season.
This also applies to the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which Argentina won in Qatar. Lionel Messi, who holds the record for winning the most Ballon d’Or trophies with seven, served as the team’s captain.
However, 22-year-old Erling Haaland continues to score goals throughout a terrific season, which will test voters’ resolve and maybe spark a power struggle between national team success and club achievement.
Ballon d’Or 2023 odds
Following his role in helping Argentina to their third World Cup victory and the first of his career, Lionel Messi is currently atop the 2023 Ballon d’Or voting.
As PSG fans periodically booed him as they saw them lose in the UEFA Champions League and falter in their quest for the Ligue 1 championship, Messi’s club season has been a mixed bag. He has contributed to more than 40 goals this season across all competitions, so he is still in superb form.
But Erling Haaland, who just completed a record-breaking Premier League season, is closing in on Messi and is on pace to break the Premier League single-season goal scoring record.
They are the only two players in contention for the championship, with little hope for anyone else.
Others within shouting distance include last year’s winner Karim Benzema, Messi’s club teammate Kylian Mbappe, Man United standout Marcus Rashford, Brazil star Vinicius Jr., and Man City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne.
That list clearly includes a mix of players having sparkling campaigns and others appearing more on pedigree, but none can come close to how Messi and Haaland have performed.
| SkyBet (UK) |
Dafabet (India) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Lionel Messi | 4/9 | 1.44 |
| Erling Haaland | 13/8 | 2.63 |
| Karim Benzema | 20/1 | 21.00 |
| Kylian Mbappe | 22/1 | 23.00 |
| Marcus Rashford | 25/1 | 26.00 |
| Vinicius Jr. | 33/1 | 34.00 |
| Kevin De Bruyne | 33/1 | 34.00 |
Who has won the most Ballon d’Or awards?
The player with the most Ballon d’Or awards all-time is Lionel Messi, who has won it seven times. Behind him is Messi’s long-time rival Cristiano Ronaldo with five Ballon d’Or awards.
Only 10 players all-time have claimed multiple Ballon d’Or awards. There have been 34 other players who have claimed the Ballon d’Or once in their career.
| Rank | Player | Ballon d’Or wins |
Years won |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Lionel Messi | 7 | 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021 |
| 2. | Cristiano Ronaldo | 5 | 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 |
| 3. | Michel Platini | 3 | 1983, 1984, 1985 |
| Johan Cruyff | 3 | 1971, 1973, 1974 | |
| Marco van Basten | 3 | 1988, 1989, 1992 | |
| 6. | Franz Beckenbauer | 2 | 1972, 1976 |
| Ronaldo | 2 | 1997, 2002 | |
| Alfredo Di Stefano | 2 | 1957, 1959 | |
| Kevin Keegan | 2 | 1978, 1979 | |
| Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | 2 | 1980, 1981 |
