The Ballon d’Or ceremony for the best football player of 2022 will take place on October 17 in the French capital Paris, where the successor to Argentine Lionel Messi and Spaniard Alexia Botias will be announced, according to what the organizers announced on Tuesday. .
The 66th awards ceremony will take place at the Chatelet Theatre, where Messi won the Men’s Player of the Year award for the seventh time last year.
Nominees for the award will be announced on August 12.
This year’s Ballon d’Or will be the first to be awarded by France Football magazine as the award rules have been changed and football season results are based on football season results rather than the calendar year.
The Ballon d’Or award has been presented at the end of the calendar year since its inception in 1956, but under the new reforms, it will correspond to the football season, which runs from August to July, and will now include a smaller jury and will take a precise preliminary selection and clearer criteria under the new rules.
Under the new rules, impressive individual results and the determination of candidates take precedence over the collective aspect and titles won.