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After a year-long absence due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Ballon d’Or is up for grabs again.

The 30 nominees for the final shortlist will be revealed for the men’s award tonight, as well as the names up for the women’s, Kopa and Lev Yashin awards.

Follow it all live here.

19:35 – Which means the final list of 30 nominees for the 2021 Ballon d’Or looks like this:

19:30 – And the final five are:

Kylian Mbappé (France)

Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)

Gerard Moreno (Villarreal)

Phil Foden (Manchester City)

Luis Suárez (Atlético Madrid)

19:20 – Which means we only have one last group of five players left to be announced. Who should be on it?

19:15 – Joining them are:

Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)

Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)

Jorignho (Chelsea)

Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea)

César Azpilicueta (Chelsea)

19:06 – Out of nowhere, a new five names have dropped out of the sky, and they are:

Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City)

Neymar (PSG)

Rúben Dias (Manchester City)

Lautaro Martínez (Inter)

Simon Kjaer (Milan)

19:05 – While we wait for the next batch of nominees to be announced, France Football have been ever so kind and are treating us to some footage of the previous five in action.

19:00 – Pedrí is up for both the Ballon d’Or and the Kopa Trophy in what has been a stunning breakthrough year for the 18-year-old.

18:55 – The next five have been revealed, and there’s a familiar name in there:

Lionel Messi (PSG)

Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United)

Pedri (Barcelona)

Luka Modrić (Real Madrid)

Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus)

18:40 – What a day for Karim Benzema, nominated in the Ballon d’Or list and named as the LaLiga Player of the Month!

18:30 – The next five names on the shortlist are …

Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur)

Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG)

Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)

Raheem Sterling (Manchester City)

Nicoló Barella (Inter)

18:12 – And here we go, the first five names have been revealed …

N’Golo Kanté (Chelsea)

Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City)

Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund)

Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus)

Mount Mount (Chelsea)

18:10 – More suspense than in a Hitchcock film.

17:58 – Now, it’s time for the main event …

17:55 – The full list of players up for the ‘Yashin award’ are as follows …

17:50 – Three Premier League ‘keepers in the first set of names announced.

17:45 – Now it’s time to find out who are the best goalkeepers out there .

17:43 – Borussia Dortmund bursting with pride at their two youngsters who are up for the Kopa Trophy.

17:40 – The ten names up for the Kopa Trophy are …

Mason Greenwood (Manchester United/England), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal/England), Pedrí (Barcelona/Spain), Jérémy Doku (Rennes/Belgium), Ryan Gravenberch (Ajax/Netherlands), Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich/Germany), Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen/Germany, Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund/England), Giovanni Reyna (Borussia Dortmund/USA), Nuno Mendes (PSG/Portugal)

17:32 – But first up, we are going to find out who has been nominated for the best male player under 21.

17:30 – We are not far away from finding out who is up for the Men’s award …

17:25 – The complete list of 20 Ballon d’Or Féminin nominees have been revealed:

17:00 – The ceremony revealing who is up for the 2021 award is about to start, will Robert Lewandowski be in with a shout of finally winning? Who from the Italian Euro 2020 winning squad will be nominated? All will soon be revealed.