Ballon d'Or 2025: 1.6 million viewers in France for Ousmane Dembélé's win on La chaine L'Équipe

The Ballon d'Or 2025 ceremony drew an average of 1.6 million viewers, with a peak audience of 2.5 million (22:48 CET) on La chaine L'Équipe (free DTT) in France on Monday 22/09/2025 (from 21:00 to 23:03 CET), according to data from the audience measurement institute Médiamétrie.

This figure represented an audience share of 8.6%, which ranked the channel fourth in the French audiovisual market at prime time on 22/09.

Ousmane Dembélé, a forward for Paris Saint-Germain (Ligue 1 McDonald's) and the French national team, was awarded the Men's Ballon d'Or for the first time in his career. He became the sixth Frenchman to receive the award after Raymond Kopa (1958), Michel Platini (1983, 1984 and 1985), Jean-Pierre Papin (1991), Zinédine Zidane (1998) and Karim Benzema (2022). The Women's Ballon d'Or was won by Spain's Aitana Bonmatí (FC Barcelona) for a record third consecutive time for a women's player.

The audience for the ceremony was up on the 2024 edition (1.08 million; 5.6% audience share), held on 28/10/2024, but was still lower than in 2022. The latter, which saw France's Karim…