The Ballon d’Or, prestigious trophy for best player and best female player awarded by France Football, will relate from 2021-2022 to the sports season, and no longer to the calendar year, one of the main reforms intended to make it “more legible,” the magazine announced Friday, March 11. ” This is the opportunity to give new impetus. Before, we judged on two half-seasons. It will be more readable “said Pascal Ferré, editor-in-chief of France Football. The next award ceremony will take place in September or October 2022 and will relate to the season started a year earlier, taking into account in particular the Men’s Champions League (final on May 28) and the Women’s Euro (July 6-31). . The number of jurors will be tightened. Still made up of journalists, with one voter per nation, the jury will now only include 100 voters for the male Ballon d’Or corresponding to the top 100 nations in the Fifa rankings, compared to 170 previously.