Harry Kane won the Ballon d’Or at the London Palladium on 26 October with 1,055 points, 28 clear of Kylian Mbappé. Yamal came in third on 881 points, still 146 behind Mbappé.

Each member association sends one accredited journalist to vote. One hundred ballots decide the final ranking, and four of them carried no Lamine Yamal at any position: Greece, Cameroon, Croatia and Belarus.

Croatia: Rodri first, Ferran Torres above Yamal

Zdravko Reić, Croatia’s voter, ranked Manchester City midfielder Rodri first on his list, according to Yahoo Sports. Erling Haaland came second and Lionel Messi third.

Barcelona forward Ferran Torres landed in fourth, with Mbappé fifth and the eventual winner Kane sixth. Yamal, the 19-year-old who finished third overall, did not appear anywhere on Reić’s ballot.

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Greece: Pacho and Cucurella above Kane

The Greek voter, Manos Staramopoulos, handed PSG defender Willian Pacho third place and Chelsea left back Marc Cucurella fourth, Goal.com reported. Kane was placed seventh.

Yamal was not in Staramopoulos’s top 10.

Belarus: Messi first, Rodri second, Kane third

The Belarusian ballot opened with Messi, followed by Rodri in second and Kane in third. Belarus was one of six associations whose voter put Messi first, alongside Brazil, Argentina, Panama, the United Arab Emirates and China.

Messi finished fifth overall.

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Cameroon

The Cameroon voter likewise left Yamal off the list. No individual choices from that ballot have been reported alongside the Croatian, Greek and Belarusian lists that drew most of the attention after the ceremony.

13 ballots topped by Yamal, four with none

The breakdown released after the ceremony showed Kane with 40 first-place votes to Mbappé’s 23 and Yamal’s 13. The margin at the top was the closest in years, with Kane and Mbappé separated by less than three per cent of the winner’s total.

Yamal left London with a prize of his own. He took home the Kopa Trophy as the world’s best player under 21 for a third straight year, the only player to win it three times.

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