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Aitana Bonmatí

Aitana Bonmatí

In 4 of 4 rankings

Barcelona · Spain

Aitana Bonmatí is a Spanish professional footballer from Catalonia, born on 18 January 1998. She plays as a midfielder for Barcelona in Liga F and for the Spain national team. She has been with Barcelona since 2012 and developed for six years in the club's La Masia academy. Bonmatí tops all four 2025 rankings in our sources. France Football awarded her the 2025 Ballon d'Or Féminin, her third in a row, making her the first player to win it three times. ESPN ranked her No. 1 in its top 50 women's players of 2025, and the IFFHS and The Guardian also placed her first. Wikipedia credits her with seven league titles, eight Copas de la Reina, five Supercopas and four Women's Champions League titles with Barcelona, and she was named MVP of the 2021 Champions League final. Besides her three Ballon d'Or Féminin awards (2023, 2024 and 2025) she won The Best FIFA Women's Player in 2023 and 2024 and UEFA Women's Player of the Year in 2023. With Spain she won two youth European titles and joined the senior squad in 2017, playing at the 2019 World Cup, Euro 2022 and the 2023 World Cup.

First in our Best ’25 list (In 4 of 4 rankings): the more of the trusted rankings below name an entry, the higher its place — see Mechanics. The next editions can change it.

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Places 2 to 4

  1. 1Alessia RussoArsenal · England
  2. 1Mariona CaldenteyArsenal · Spain
  3. 1Ewa PajorBarcelona · Poland

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