The Ballon dOr award ceremony will take place on September 22 this year and the number of awards for women and men will be equal for the first time, organisers said on Monday.
Awards for best womens goalkeeper, best young womens player and the top womens scorer in a club or national team have been added to the list this year for the ceremony at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France Football magazine and UEFA said.
That means there will be six awards for male players and six for female players, with an additional prize, the Socrates Award, for actions that promote solidarity, which is open to men or women.
The nominees will be announced in early August.
Last years awards ceremony was overshadowed by a boycott by Real Madrid after they learned that their Brazilian forward Vinicius Junior had not won the best mens player award, which went to Rodri of Manchester City.