The 2024 Ballon d’Or awards event will occur on 28 October and the 30-man shortlist for the award has actually now been exposed.

The event is held every year and is hosted by France Football. The Ballon d’Or award identifies the very best gamer worldwide from the previous season and is considered among the most prominent specific awards in football.

The 30-man shortlist for the award was exposed on Wednesday and, for the very first time because 2016, not a single Liverpool gamer was shortlisted.

Liverpool delighted in a relatively effective project last season, ending up 3rd in the Premier League, reaching the quarter-finals of the Europa League and the FA Cup, and winning the League Cup for a record 10th time.

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No Liverpool additions in the Ballon d’Or shortlist

As well as being the very first time because 2016 that no Liverpool gamer has actually been shortlisted for the award, it is likewise the very first time because 2017 that the Reds talisman Mohamed Salah hasn’t made the shortlist.

They’re all here!

But… who should win it? #ballondor pic.twitter.com/SrkHBrJtuI

— Ballon d’Or (@ballondor) September 4, 2024

Last season Salah was the only Liverpool gamer to make the shortlist and he ended up 11^th, with Lionel Messi going on to win the award for a record 8th time.

The last time that Salah wasn’t ranked amongst the leading 30 gamers at the awards, Liverpool still had 2 agents, Sadio Mané and Philippe Coutinho, on the shortlist.

This year there will be no Liverpool representation at all, in spite of the Reds taking pleasure in a far better season that they performed in 2022/23, when they ended up trophyless and in 5th location in the league.

Liverpool’s previous Ballon d’Or winners

Michael Owen is the only gamer to have actually won the Ballon d’Or while betting Liverpool, a task he attained at simply 22 years of ages, however other Reds have actually likewise come close to winning the award.

Both Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres handled third-placed surfaces, while present Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk was among 7 Liverpool gamers shortlisted in 2019, taking 2nd location – just 7 points behind winner Leo Messi.

Throwback to when Liverpool had 7 Ballon D’or candidates in 2019 under Klopp! #lfc pic.twitter.com/zWcnLvBW2A

— Liverpool Photos (@LiverpoolPhotox) September 4, 2024

Arne Slot’s Liverpool group have actually taken pleasure in an outstanding start to the season and his gamers will be hoping that next season there are a variety of Liverpool gamers on the Ballon d’Or shortlist.