{"id":1415075,"date":"2026-07-07T13:42:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/updated-ranking-of-candidates-for-the-2026-ballon-dor-who-is-in-the-lead\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:42:51","slug":"updated-ranking-of-candidates-for-the-2026-ballon-dor-who-is-in-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/updated-ranking-of-candidates-for-the-2026-ballon-dor-who-is-in-the-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated ranking of candidates for the 2026 Ballon d&#8217;Or: who is in the lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After the final matches of the 2026 World Cup, the betting platform Polymarket has updated its ranking of the main contenders for the prestigious 2026 Ballon d&#8217;Or football award. The new favorite is the striker of the French national team and Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> According to the platform&#8217;s estimates, Mbapp\u00e9&#8217;s chances of winning are currently 26%.<\/p>\n<p> England captain and Bayern Munich forward Harry Kane is in second place, with a 23% chance of winning the award.<\/p>\n<p> The third place is shared by two footballers. Argentina captain Lionel Messi and current Ballon d&#8217;Or winner, Paris Saint-Germain forward Ousmane Dembele, each have an 11% chance of winning.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that it was Dembele who won the Ballon d&#8217;Or in 2025.<\/p>\n<p> Currently, the ranking of the main contenders for the award looks like this:<\/p>\n<p> Kylian Mbappe \u2014 26%;<br \/> Harry Kane \u2014 23%;<br \/> Lionel Messi \u2014 11%;<br \/> Ousmane Dembele \u2014 11%.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the final matches of the 2026 World Cup, the betting platform Polymarket has updated its ranking of the main contenders for the prestigious 2026 Ballon d&#8217;Or football award. The new favorite is the striker of the French national team and Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappe. According to the platform&#8217;s estimates, Mbapp\u00e9&#8217;s chances of winning are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1415061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76895],"class_list":["post-1415075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}