Ballon d’Or 2026: Only two African players make women’s top 30 nominees [FULL LIST]

Only two African players were nominated for the 2026 Women’s Ballon d’Or top 30 nominees on Tuesday.

They are Zambia’s Barbra Banda and Malawi’s Temwa Chawinga.

The two made the list follow their brilliant performances at the 2026 CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, WAFCON, which was won by Cameroon in Morocco.

Chawinga scored five goals and provided two assists at WAFCON, while Banda scored five goals and provided one assist.

Here are Full List  for the 2026 Ballon d’Or women’s nominees:

Selma Bacha

Barbra Banda

Klara Bühl

Esmee Brugts

Mariona Caldentey

Scarlett Camberos

Kerstin Casparij

Temwa Chawinga

Cata Coll

Melchie Dumornay

Caroline Graham Hansen

Alex Greenwood

Patri Guijarro

Pernille Harder

Yui Hasegawa

Rose Lavelle

Mapi León

Lorena

Melvine Malard

Manaka Matsukubo

Vivianne Miedema

Ewa Pajor

Claudia Pina

Alexia Putellas

Wendie Renard

Alessia Russo

Khadija Shaw

Momoko Tanikawa

Caroline Weir

Tessa Wullaert