Mane, Aubameyang among 30 footballers for Ballon D’or (Complete List)

Here is the complete list of footballers that made the cut to be among 30-man Shortlist for the Ballon D’Or 2019 as announced by France Football. First, the partial list of 20 names released ast 7.30pm.

Liverpool:Sadio Mane, Virgil van Dijk and Roberto Firmino, Alisson Becker, Georginio Wijnaldum and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah,

Manchester City: Sergio Aguero and Bernardo Silva, Raheem Sterling, Riyad Mahrez, Kevin de Bruyne

Tottenham: Hugo Lloris and Heung-Min Son \

Paris Saint-Germain/France: Kylian Mbappe​

Arsenal: Pierre-emerick Aubameyang

Ajax/Juventus: Dusan Tadic, Donny van de Beek
Juventus: Cristiano Ronaldo
Barcelona: Frenkie De Jong, Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Lionel Messi, Antoine Griezmann

Real Madrid: Karim Benzema, Eden Hazard.

Bayern Munich: Robert Lewandowski

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were named in the complete list at 9.15pm. .

(Read all the names here: France Football

The 30 nominees have been chosen by the editorial staff at France Football, while the winner will be determined by the votes of an international panel of journalists – one per country.

There are three main criteria that nominees are judged on. These are: individual and team achievements over the last 12 months, a player’s talent and flair, and a player’s wider career.

Every voting journalist will get five picks, each worth a different value. A top pick is worth six points, with subsequent choices getting four, three, two or one point. In the event of two players getting the same number of total points, the number of first place votes will be taken in account, followed by second place votes, third place votes, and so on.