Harry Kane and Charlyn Corral win Gerd Müller trophies at Ballon d’Or 2026 in London
Harry Kane and Charlyn Corral collected the men’s and women’s Gerd Müller trophies at the Ballon d’Or ceremony in London in 2026, awards given to the season’s most prolific goal scorers. The honours were presented as part of the Ballon d’Or event held that year.
The Gerd Müller Trophy, first awarded in 2021, recognises the players who finish a season with the highest number of official goals for their clubs and national teams and is calculated solely from scoring statistics rather than voting. The prize honours German striker Gerd Müller and sits alongside the Ballon d’Or as a distinct accolade focused on raw goal totals. Robert Lewandowski is noted in the awards’ history as the player who has won it the most times.
Kane finished the season with 73 goals in all competitions, a total composed of 61 goals for FC Bayern Munich and 12 for England; those figures secured him the men’s Gerd Müller Trophy at the Ballon d’Or presentation. The article describes Kane as the season’s top scorer at the ceremony and identifies the 73-goal total as the basis for the award.
At club level, Kane helped Bayern Munich to a domestic double, winning both the Bundesliga title and the DFB-Pokal during the campaign, and he scored 36 goals in the Bundesliga en route to his second European Golden Shoe. The piece also records that this Gerd Müller Trophy is Kane’s second top-scorer honour, noting that in 2024 he shared the award with Kylian Mbappé after both players scored 52 goals.
On the women’s side, Charlyn Corral was named Women’s Striker of the Year, the equivalent of the Gerd Müller Trophy, at the 2026 Ballon d’Or presentation. The report identifies Corral as a forward for Pachuca and a member of the Mexico national team and attributes her award to a consistently high goal-scoring season, describing her performance as outstanding and reliable.
The awards at the Ballon d’Or ceremony were presented based on official scoring totals rather than subjective rankings, a distinction the article emphasises when describing the Gerd Müller Trophy’s criteria. The piece contrasts that method with the Ballon d’Or’s voting-based process and reiterates that the Gerd Müller awards are determined by the season’s official goal counts for clubs and countries.
A social media post accompanying coverage of the ceremony read: "OFFICIAL: Harry Kane wins Gerd Müller Award as Best Striker at the Ballon d’Or 2026. pic.twitter.com/JsEj3ismmX". The article closes by noting those announcements were part of the Ballon d’Or presentation in London and by recording the recipients of the 2026 Gerd Müller trophies as Kane and Corral.
