France Football reveals full Ballon d'Or vote: Kane edged Mbappé by 28 points

France Football has published the full 2026 Ballon d'Or voting breakdown, showing Harry Kane edged Kylian Mbappé by 28 points in the award's fourth-closest vote.

• Kane won with 1,055 points, beating Mbappé's 1,027 by 28 points in the fourth-closest vote in the award's 70-year history.
• Kane received 40 first-place votes to Mbappé's 23, while Lamine Yamal finished third with 881 points and 13 first-place votes.
• France Football editor-in-chief Vincent Garcia placed Mbappé first on his ballot, with winner Kane ranked only sixth.
• Alexia Putellas won the Women's Ballon d'Or a third time with 618 points, beating runner-up Ewa Pajor on 532.
• Ninety-seven of the 100 voting journalists ranked Kylian Mbappé in their top ten, with voters from Scotland, Greece and Ukraine omitting him entirely.
• A Spanish journalist's ballot placed Mbappé first ahead of Lamine Yamal, with winner Harry Kane ranked only third.
• Morocco's Achraf Hakimi finished 13th with 65 points in the 2026 Ballon d'Or vote announced by France Football.
• A Croatian journalist issued an apology for misranking winner Harry Kane on his Ballon d'Or ballot.
• Kane's 28-point margin is the narrowest since the current voting system was adopted, with the previous smallest gap being 41 points in 2024.
• Paraguay's voting journalist Rubén Darío Da Rosa placed Mbappé first on his Ballon d'Or ballot, with Rodri second and Yamal third.
• Portugal's António Tadeia gave his first-place vote to Lamine Yamal ahead of Mbappé, ranking winner Harry Kane sixth and Lionel Messi seventh.
• L'Équipe reported four panel members, including Saudi journalist Khaled Al-Arafa and France Football's Vincent Garcia, correctly named the top ten.