The Ballon d'Or winner will be announced in London on 26 October - but who is going to win it?

Bookmakers have Spain winger Lamine Yamal and England captain Harry Kane very close together as clear favourites.

Lamine Yamal won La Liga with Barcelona and the World Cup with Spain, while Kane scored 73 goals for German champions Bayern Munich and England.

Eight-time winner Lionel Messi, of Argentina and Inter Miami, and Real Madrid's France forward Kylian Mbappe are the other probable candidates.

Or how about one of Paris St-Germain's back-to-back European champions?

BBC Sport asked several of its football experts who they think should take home the award.

Lamine Yamal

The PSG players, there are so many of them that deserve it - Fabian Ruiz, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Ousmane Dembele, Vitinha. So the vote is going to be split.

There is only one Spaniard who deserves it, and that's Lamine Yamal, who has given us individual performances, collective trophies, and has that aura. He's going to win it.

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

He got the penalty in the final, scored in both semi-finals, in the quarter-final, and in the last 16. He was amazing in those huge, huge games where you want your best players to step up. He deserves to win the Ballon d'Or for being the best player in the world all the way up to the World Cup.

He won't win it, unfortunately, because Lamine Yamal, for the player he is and how entertaining and spectacular he is, didn't really shine at the World Cup, even if Spain won it. He didn't really do that well in the Champions League for Barcelona, getting knocked out early. However, his style of football means he'll probably win it - but it should be Kvaratskhelia.

Personally I would give it to Kvaratskhelia. He has been the most exciting player in European club football for a while now, a valuable part of the PSG team who retained the Champions League, and crucially I think you shouldn't suffer because you come from a country who isn't in the running to win the World Cup.

Harry Kane