Ballon d’Or Awards LIVE: Latest updates as Lionel Messi crowned and Aitana Bonmati wins Feminin award

Time for the best goalkeeper to step forward and claim their award. And not drop it, obviously.

Ederson, Bounou, Martinez, Courtois or Ter Stegen?

Drogba announces Martinez as the winner! A few cheers as he takes to the stage. Alberto Martinez comes on stage too, Emi’s father, to hand over the award.

“French people still think about every day - was it the save of your life?” Drogba asks the stopper. He does begin to respond but boos interrupt him - Drogba has to silence a few in the crowd jeering while Martinez is talking, saying sporting respect must be shown.

That gets a few bits of applause. Honestly, it’s not Uefa you know!

Gary Lineker is on stage now to present the Gerd Muller award, the one handed to the year’s biggest goal machine.

“Football has evolved a lot. I personally think it’s better and better, the competition is better and there are so many incredible players who are a credit to the game. I’m proud of young players speaking up about important issues. The game on the field is in good shape,” our Match of the Day face says.

Gerd Muller trophy next..no prizes for guessing who top scored for club and country!

Lewandowski in fifth with 36 goals. Messi fourth hit 38. Kane managed 40 to take third.

Mbappe scored a whopping 54, he’s second.

Erling Haaland with a thoroughly ridiculous 56 goals!

“Thanks to Man City for making myself every single day, the staff and Pep. I always want to thank my family and people around me for making me who I am today,” he said. We now get to watch every single one of those strikes in a video montage.

Haaland is asked his thoughts on the noble art of plundering goals and leaving defences downhearted.

“If I’m giving advice it’s to stay hungry, especially as a striker. Be ready and be in the moment, stay sharp and want to score, want to have this feeling as I had quite a few times last season. It’s as easy as that - chase this feeling!”

Lineker gives his assessment on the massive Norwegian:

“His movement is so good, his anticipation. Goalscoring is like mathematics. It’s formula not instinct: make runs into space where you think you can score if the ball goes there. It’s the law of probability and he does it better than anyone else at the moment.”

Manchester City are given the nod as Club of the Year in the men’s game, somewhat unsurprisingly. They won the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup.

Seven Ballon d’Or nominees are here tonight so they are all up on stage along with some club suits to receive the award.

“We are very proud, we enjoyed a really good season. But we all know this is not the product of one season, it’s more than a decade of hard work,” said Ferran Soriano.

On we go with the next rankings for the big awards and another Lioness in the reveal - goalkeeper Mary Earps takes fifth.

7th Popp, Germany

6th Carmona, Spain

5th Earps, England

And continuing the same way, the next three for the men. Two from Man City in this group.

7th Alvarez, Argentina

6th Vinicius Jr, Brazil

5th Rodri, Spain

Novak Djokovic is on stage to do the presentation for the Ballon d’Or Feminin and the final four. The tennis maestro reveals he’s a Red Star Belgrade fan...as well as AC Milan. A bit of tennis chatter and he reveals he wants to claim Olympic gold in Paris next year as a big career goal he has left.

Onto the award.

Bonmati, Kerr, Paralluelo and Rolfo are the final four...

Aitana Bonmati wins women’s Ballon d’Or!

Bonmati speaks after receiving her prize:

“I’m very proud to receive the award tonight, it has been a unique year. This is an individual prize but football is a team sport so I would like to extend this to all my teammates at Barcelona and Spain. I wouldn’t have the success without them.”

Joan Laporta is given special note by Bonmati for the support offered to the women’s team, while the Spain star has congratulations for the other nominees.

“Keep living by example and keep fighting for a more peaceful and equal world,” she adds in English.