On October 27, Hupu's "2026 Ballon d'Or Ranking" rating page removed Mbappé's entry, so that directly after first-place Kane came third-place Yamal. Mbappé finished second in the Ballon d'Or that evening.
Migu removed footage of Mbappé's two goals from its El Clásico page, while footage of Raphinha's goal in the same match remained visible, and Mbappé's player information on Real Madrid's lineup page was also cleared. Migu is La Liga's new media exclusive partner in mainland China, with a contract running through the 2029-30 season.
In September 2026, Mbappé addressed the “Dictator Mbappé” meme for the first time in an interview with France Football, saying that such images can sometimes be funny, but that comparing him to rulers responsible for millions of deaths goes too far, and that this sometimes reflects people’s “lack of political and humanitarian awareness.” The figures involved in the memes include Kim Jong-un, Mao Zedong, Stalin, and Mobutu.
The FIFA Museum in Zurich, Switzerland opened in 2016.
Scholar Messer proposes that goals in football matches can be modeled using the Poisson distribution to estimate the probability of different scorelines.