Alexia Putellas Retains Women's Ballon d'Or Award After Spectacular Barcelona Season

Alexia Putellas won the women's Ballon d'Or for the second year in a row at Monday's awards ceremony in Paris.

The 28-year-old had captained Barcelona to a perfect domestic campaign in Spain's Primera Division last season.

She scored 18 goals and made 15 assists as Barca won all 30 of their league matches.

Putellas also ended the season as the top scorer in the Women's Champions League with 11 goals.

But Spain international Putellas missed Euro 2022 with an ACL injury.

Alexia Putellas pictured at the 2022 Ballon d'Or awards ceremony in Paris

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Beth Mead finished second in the women's Ballon d'Or after leading England to glory at Euro 2022.

Arsenal forward Mead ended Euro 2022 with the Golden Boot and the Player of the Tournament award.

Australian Chelsea striker Sam Kerr came third in the Ballon d'Or vote, with Wolfsburg's Lena Oberdorf fourth and Barca midfielder Aitana Bonmati fifth.

Three USWNT stars made the top 20 as Catarina Macario, Alex Morgan and Trinity Rodman came ninth, 13th and 18th respectively.

2022 Women's Ballon d'Or Final Rankings

The top 20 players in the 2022 women's Ballon d'Or final standings

Rank	Player	Club(s) in 2021/22 season	Nation
1	Alexia Putellas	Barcelona	Spain
2	Beth Mead	Arsenal	England
3	Sam Kerr	Chelsea	Australia
4	Lena Oberdorf	Wolfsburg	Germany
5	Aitana Bonmati	Barcelona	Spain
6	Alexandra Popp	Wolfsburg	Germany
7	Ada Hegerberg	Lyon	Norway
8	Wendie Renard	Lyon	France
9	Catarina Macario	Lyon	USA
10	Lucy Bronze	Man City	England
11	Vivianne Miedema	Arsenal	Holland
12	Christiane Endler	Lyon	Chile
13	Alex Morgan	Orlando Pride and San Diego Wave	USA
14	Selma Bacha	Lyon	France
15	Millie Bright	Chelsea	England
16	Asisat Oshoala	Barcelona	Nigeria
17	Marie-Antoinette Katoto	PSG	France
18	Trinity Rodman	Washington Spirit	USA
19	Fridolina Rolfo	Barcelona	Sweden
20	Kadidiatou Diani	PSG	France