Full List of Ballon d’Or 2022 nominees: No Lionel Messi

Real Madrid’s Benzema is the favourite to win the prestigious award after scoring 44 goals in 46 games as his side won the La Liga and the Champions League.

Messi, who has won a record seven Ballon d’Or awards, missed out on the cut for the first time since 2005.

A total of 30 footballers have been nominated for Ballon d’Or 2022.

Trent Alexander-Arnold, Luis Diaz, Fabinho, Darwin Nunez, Mohammed Salah, and Virgil van Dijk

Cristiano Ronaldo

Erling Haaland, Kevin De Bruyne, Phil Foden, Riyad Mahrez, Bernardo Silva, Joao Cancelo

Karim Benzema, Thibaut Courtois, Casemiro, Luka Modric, Vinicius Jr, Antonio Rudiger

Rafael Leao, Mike Maignan

Christopher Nkunku

Joshua Kimmich, Sadio Mane

Robert Lewandowski

Heung-Min Son, Harry Kane

Sebastian Haller

Dusan Vlahovic

Kylian Mbappe