The 2024 Ballon d’Or ceremony will happen on Monday 28 October at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris.
Essentially the most distinguished annual ceremony within the soccer calendar has gained additional significance upon the current introduction of the coaches awards, with this yr’s ceremony establishing honours for the Males’s and Girls’s Coach of the Yr for the very first time.
Some acquainted faces line the listing of nominees, as each membership and worldwide managers make up the register of distinguished coaches up for the accolade.
Regardless of not qualifying for the Paris Olympic Video games throughout the summer season, England head coach Sarina Wiegman is nominated for the class.
Emma Hayes additionally obtained a worthy nomination for her 2023/24 marketing campaign with Chelsea, having led the facet to the semi-final phases of the UEFA Girls’s Champions League, earlier than successful a fifth consecutive WSL title with the Blues.
Sonia Bompastor can also be up for the depend after main Lyon to the Champions League ultimate, the place they had been narrowly defeated 2-0 by Barcelona in Bilbao. Bompastor additionally took Lyon to success within the 2023/24 D1F season, earlier than taking up the position of Chelsea head coach over the summer season.
Jonatan Giraldez stole the fairytale ending from Bompastor in Bilbao, as his Barcelona facet reigned victorious within the Champions League as soon as once more because of objectives from Aitana Bonmati and Alexia Putellas. Giraldez’s Barcelona facet additionally took the home sphere by storm, having grabbed silverware in Liga F, the Copa de la Reina and the Supercopa de Espana Femenina.
Brazil nationwide crew head coach Arthur Elias has obtained a nomination after taking on the managerial submit in September 2023. Elias led the facet to victory on the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup, earlier than taking the Canarinhas to a silver medal on the Paris Olympics.
Benfica supervisor Filipa Patao has obtained her flowers for an distinctive managerial marketing campaign in Portugal, having led the facet to a home treble throughout the 2023/24 season. Benfica had been victorious within the Campeonato Nacional Feminino, Taca de Portugal and Taca da Liga.
While every of the six nominees are all deserving of their place on the shortlist, there can solely be one winner on the Ballon d’Or ceremony.
After conquering the WSL as soon as once more, Emma Hayes travelled stateside to develop into head coach of the USA Girls’s Nationwide Staff. She made it look straightforward on the Olympics, claiming gold. Nonetheless, Ballon d’Or eligibility solely counts for the interval between 1 August 2023 and 31 July 2024, which means her Olympic triumph got here simply two weeks too late to be thought-about right here.
Sonia Bompastor and Filipa Patao each dominated their respective home leagues, however the final plaudit might be given to Jonatan Giraldez for his main success (once more) within the UEFA Girls’s Champions League.
Predicted 2024 Girls’s Coach of the Yr winner: Jonatan Giraldez
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