Ballon d'Or 2026 Time: 4 p.m. ET Ceremony, Kane and Putellas Win

Harry Kane and Alexia Putellas won the 2026 Ballon d’Or at the ceremony in London on Monday, Oct. 26.

Harry Kane and Alexia Putellas won the 2026 Ballon d’Or at the London Palladium on Monday, Oct. 26, the Ballon d’Or organizers said. Kane, of Bayern Munich, won the men’s award and Putellas won the women’s. The ceremony was held at 4 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), 9 p.m. in London, hosted by Thierry Henry and Kate Scott. Below: the full winners list by award, how the voting finished, and both nominee lists.

Who won the Ballon d’Or 2026?

The Ballon d’Or organizers published the winners on ballondor.com after the ceremony. These are the awards we could confirm.

Award	Winner
Men’s Ballon d’Or	Harry Kane (Bayern Munich, England)
Women’s Ballon d’Or	Alexia Putellas (London City, Spain)
Men’s Young Talent (Kopa Trophy)	Lamine Yamal
Women’s Young Talent (Kopa Trophy)	Vicky López
Men’s Goalkeeper (Yashin Trophy)	Unai Simón
Women’s Goalkeeper	Cata Coll
Men’s Striker of the Year (Gerd Müller Trophy)	Harry Kane
Women’s Striker of the Year	Charlyn Corral
Men’s Coach of the Year (Johan Cruyff Trophy)	Luis de la Fuente
Women’s Coach of the Year	Pere Romeu
Sócrates Award	Bukayo Saka

The Striker of the Year is Kane’s second, the organizers said. The organizers also list men’s and women’s club of the year awards; this story leaves those out because we could not confirm the winners.

How did the men’s and women’s votes finish?

Kane is the first English men’s winner in 25 years, ESPN reported, and he finished ahead of Kylian Mbappé in second place and Lamine Yamal in third. Putellas won her third Ballon d’Or, ESPN reported, ahead of Ewa Pajor and Melchie Dumornay. Yamal, who placed third in the men’s vote, also won the men’s young talent award (Kopa Trophy) for the third year in a row, per ESPN.

Where was the ceremony and what time was it?

The 2026 Ballon d’Or was staged at the London Palladium Theatre in London, the first time the ceremony was held in London, according to the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). It began at 20:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which was 4 p.m. ET. Thierry Henry and Kate Scott hosted. Dazn streamed the ceremony live and free in 200 markets with a free Dazn account.

The table below converts the 20:00 GMT start into local times; it is our conversion, not an official schedule.

City	Local start	Time zone
London	8 p.m.	GMT
Paris, Madrid, Berlin	9 p.m.	Central European Time (CET)
New York	4 p.m.	Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Chicago	3 p.m.	Central Daylight Time (CDT)
Denver	2 p.m.	Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
Phoenix	1 p.m.	Mountain Standard Time (MST), Arizona does not observe daylight saving time
Los Angeles	1 p.m.	Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
Anchorage	Noon	Alaska Daylight Time (AKDT)
Honolulu	10 a.m.	Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HST)
São Paulo	5 p.m.	Brasília Time (BRT), 3 hours behind GMT
Lagos	9 p.m.	West Africa Time (WAT)
Tokyo	5 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27	Japan Standard Time (JST)
Sydney	7 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27	Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT)

Europe left summer time on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026, and the United States ends daylight saving time on Nov. 1. For that one week New York was 4 hours behind London instead of the usual 5, which is why a 20:00 GMT start landed at 4 p.m. ET and not 3 p.m. Our story on the UK and Europe clock change has the full time difference table.

Which channels showed the Ballon d’Or 2026?

UEFA’s broadcaster list gave Dazn the global rights outside the 20 territories it named, all in Europe and Central Asia. The United States was not on that list, so Dazn was the official option for U.S. viewers; no U.S. cable or broadcast channel was named by UEFA or Dazn. Dazn said the ceremony would be free to fans in 200 markets. In Hungary the partner was the Hungarian channel of the group founded as Radio Télévision Luxembourg (RTL). Local start times are our conversion from 20:00 GMT.

Country	Official broadcaster	Local start
France	L’Équipe	9 p.m.
Monaco	L’Équipe	9 p.m.
Spain	Telefónica	9 p.m.
Norway	TV 2	9 p.m.
Czechia	TV Nova	9 p.m.
Slovakia	TV Nova	9 p.m.
Hungary	RTL Hungary	9 p.m.
Bulgaria	Btv	10 p.m.
Romania	Clever Media	10 p.m.
Türkiye	Türk Telekom	11 p.m.
Georgia	Setanta Sports / Silknet	Midnight (start of Tuesday)
Armenia	Fast Media	Midnight
Azerbaijan	Quest Media	Midnight
Russia, Belarus	Quest Media	11 p.m.
Kazakhstan	Quest Media	1 a.m. Tuesday
Kyrgyzstan	Quest Media	2 a.m. Tuesday
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan	Quest Media	1 a.m. Tuesday
United States, United Kingdom and all other countries	Dazn	See the city table above; 8 p.m. in London

Who were the Ballon d’Or 2026 nominees?

UEFA announced the nominees on Sept. 8, 2026: 30 men and 30 women. The lists below follow UEFA’s announcement, men’s on the left and women’s on the right. Names on the same row are not paired in any way.

Men’s nominees (30)	Women’s nominees (30)
Jude Bellingham	Selma Bacha
Pau Cubarsí	Barbra Banda
Marc Cucurella	Klara Bühl
Ousmane Dembélé	Esmee Brugts
Luis Díaz	Mariona Caldentey
Bruno Fernandes	Scarlett Camberos
Gabriel	Kerstin Casparij
Erling Haaland	Temwa Chawinga
Achraf Hakimi	Cata Coll
Harry Kane	Melchie Dumornay
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia	Caroline Graham Hansen
Lamine Yamal	Alex Greenwood
Sadio Mané	Patri Guijarro
Marquinhos	Pernille Harder
Lautaro Martínez	Yui Hasegawa
Kylian Mbappé	Rose Lavelle
Nuno Mendes	Mapi León
Lionel Messi	Lorena
João Neves	Melvine Malard
Michael Olise	Manaka Matsukubo
Willian Pacho	Vivianne Miedema
Julián Quiñones	Ewa Pajor
Declan Rice	Clàudia Pina
Rodri	Alexia Putellas
Fabián Ruiz	Wendie Renard
William Saliba	Alessia Russo
Ferran Torres	Khadija Shaw
Dayot Upamecano	Momoko Tanikawa
Vinícius Júnior	Caroline Weir
Vitinha	Tessa Wullaert

How does it compare with last year?

In 2025, the 69th Ballon d’Or ceremony took place at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on Monday, Sept. 22, and began at 21:00 Paris time, UEFA said. Counting from that edition, 2026 is the 70th. The ceremony moved from September to late October and from Paris to London.

Free Ballon d’Or 2026 winners list

Our printable lists every confirmed award and its winner on one page. Mark the evening on your October 2026 printable calendar, or block the hours in a printable weekly calendar. Other events on the same week are in our World Series 2026 schedule and college football playoff rankings dates stories.