The Ballon d'Or chaos you may have missed including winner 'leaks', an angry photographer incident and why fans yelled
Harry Kane was named the 2026 Ballon d'Or winner at a ceremony held at the Palladium Theatre in London, the first time the award has been presented outside France. Before the event, the Ballon d'Or website mistakenly published articles naming Kane, Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappe as winner, and the articles were later taken down. The ceremony started 45 minutes late because of London traffic. Crowd members repeatedly yelled and booed during the presentations, mostly in support of Kane, and a photographer shouted at Fabrizio Romano during a live DAZN broadcast.