The Ballon d’Or Males’s and Ladies’s Coach of the 12 months shortlists have been introduced, and there have been some notable inclusions, with Liverpool’s Arne Slot, Barcelona’s Hansi Flick, and the Lionesses’ Sarina Wiegman incomes nominations.
The annual award ceremony that recognises the very best female and male footballers and coaches on the planet is ready to be staged in Paris subsequent month.
Liverpool’s Slot turned simply the fifth supervisor to win the Premier League title on the first time of asking, in addition to turning into the primary Dutchman to win the top-flight title in England. As such, his achievements haven’t gone unrecognised along with his first Ballon d’Or nomination.
Slot isn’t the one Premier League managerial illustration, with Enzo Maresca additionally up for the award. Profitable the UEFA Convention League and incomes Champions League qualification on the ultimate day of the Premier League season earlier than occurring to clinch the Membership World Cup, Maresca’s nomination is certainly not a shock.
Listed here are our 2025 nominees for the Males’s Staff Coach of the 12 months Trophy!
Antonio Conte
Luis Enrique
Hansi Flick
Enzo Maresca
Arne Slot#ballondor pic.twitter.com/ES5OaOvP5n— Ballon d’Or (@ballondor) August 7, 2025
Predictably, the person that masterminded Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League triumph, Luis Enrique, has additionally been in receipt of a nomination.
The Spaniard, famend for his dynamic, possession-based soccer, gained the European and home double along with his PSG facet final season, thumping Inter Milan 5-0 within the closing.
Barca loved a exceptional 2024-25 season underneath Flick, with the top coach main them to a home treble by successful La Liga, Copa del Rey, and the Spanish Tremendous Cup. His staff scored 102 objectives, the very best within the 5 main European leagues.
Antonio Conte led Napoli to their second Scudetto in three years, having taken over in June 2024. The Italian supervisor has registered the very best common factors per sport (PPG) of any coach in Serie A historical past (2.24). That is the second time the Italian has been nominated for the celebrated award.
Listed here are our 2025 nominees for the Ladies’s Staff Coach of the 12 months Trophy!
Sonia Bompastor
Arthur Elias
Justine Madugu
Renée Slegers
Sarina Wiegman#ballondor pic.twitter.com/BtpKZ36HoK— Ballon d’Or (@ballondor) August 7, 2025
A constant presence among the many world’s high coaches, Wiegman has continued to steer the England Lionesses with exceptional success. Taking England to a few consecutive main event finals, she was on the helm throughout England’s UEFA Ladies’s Euro victory this summer season. This represents Wiegman’s second consecutive Ballon d’Or nomination.
Sonia Bompastor made historical past throughout her first season accountable for Chelsea, finishing an unbeaten home treble with the Blues. She is simply the third supervisor within the WSL period to win a home treble, whereas Chelsea are the primary staff to take action with out shedding since Arsenal in 2001.
The worldwide stage has been thriving with teaching expertise, and Arthur Elias is one other title recognised on the shortlist. Elias steered the Brazilian Ladies’s staff to the Copa America title earlier this month. Beating Colombia on penalties within the closing, the Brazilians remained unbeaten within the event, with Elias now setting his sights on the Ladies’s World Cup in 2027.
Justine Madugu made headlines in 2025 because the coach of Nigeria’s Tremendous Falcons, main them via a profitable Olympic qualifying marketing campaign and a powerful displaying on the Ladies’s Africa Cup of Nations, with the facet sealing their document tenth title.
Main her Arsenal facet to a second-place end within the WSL, and to simply the membership’s second Champions League title of their historical past, head coach Renee Slegers has emerged as a number one determine within the girls’s sport.