2026 Women's Ballon d'Or Best Club Nominees: Barcelona, Bayern Munich, América, City, Lyon

The nominees for the Ballon d'Or Women's Best Club award have been announced.

2026 Women's Best Club Nominees

FC Barcelona Femení (Spain)

Club América Femenil (Mexico)

Manchester City Women (England)

Olympique Lyonnais Féminin (France)

FC Barcelona

FC Barcelona Femení have won this award twice before – in 2023 and 2024 and finished runner-up in 2025. In 2025/26, Pere Romeu’s team won a remarkable quadruple, winning Liga F, Copa de la Reina, Supercopa de Espana, and of course the Champions League

Bayern Munich

FC Bayern Munich Frauen won a domestic treble last season, triumphing in the DFB-Supercup, DFB-Pokal and the Bundesliga, the club’s seventh. They were undefeated in 32 domestic fixtures.

Club América

By winning the 2025–26 CONCACAF W Champions Cup, América became the first Mexican women’s football club to win a continental competition. The final was enthralling too, beating out Washington Spirit by five goals to three.

Las Águilas also secured the Campeón de Campeonas title in what was a highly successful year.

OL Lyonnes

Jonatan Giráldez’s team won a domestic treble and came within 90 minutes of pulling off a remarkable quadruple, reaching the Champions League final. In France though, they dominated, scoring 3.4 goals per 90 in the Première Ligue.

Manchester City

The Blues attained a league and cup double in 2025/26, the latter meaningful, the former somewhat of a holy grail in recent years after last winning the WSL in 2016. From that triumph on, they finished runner-up in the league on six occasions. Now they are immortal.