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Ballon d'Or Feminin 2024: Aitana Bonmati Wins Second Successive Year

Hansen finished as the runner-up, with Paralluelo coming third, making it a Barca top three in Paris 🐬

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Aitana Bonmati won the Ballon d'Or Feminin on Monday.
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Barcelona and Spain midfielder Aitana Bonmati scooped the Ballon d'Or Feminin for a second successive year following more club and international success last season. (More Football News)

Bonmati fought off competition from Barcelona team-mates Caroline Gr🌳aham Hansen and Salma Paralluelo as well as Lyon's Ada Heg𒈔erberg to win the prize. 

The Spaniard enjoyed another stellar year, helping Ba🎉rca to the Women's Champions League crown, scoring the opening goal in a 2-0 win over Lyon in the fiﷺnal.

She finished with the most goal involvements (1♐1, six goals a𒉰nd five assists) in last season's competition.

Bonmat𝓡i made 41 appearances in all competitions, scoring 19 goals from midfield and s🐎etting up 17 more.

She was also part of the Spain side that followed up their World Cup success by winning the first edition of the Women's🃏 Nations League, scoring in the fi📖nal against France. 

Her success sees her follow club and𓃲 international team-mate Alexia Putellas in winning back-to-back Ballons d'Or.

Hansen finished as the runner-up, with Paralluelo coming third, making it a 🎃Barca top three in Paris. 

The firꦿst Women's Johan Cruyff Trophy was won by former Chelsea boss and current United States head coach, Emma Hayes. 

Hayes ended her 12-year stint with the Blues at 𓆉the end of last season, and went out on the back of clin♌ching her seventh Women's Super League title.

The 48-year-old then led the USWNT to glory in her first tournament in ch🤪arge, with her side claiming gold at the Paris Olympics.

Spanish and European champions Barca, unsurprisingly, retained the Wo🧸men's Club of the Year, having won the inaugural award in 2023.

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