FIFA World Player of the Year Men
The FIFA World Player of the Year award is given annually to the football player who is thought to be the weightier in the world. Here are the ribbon winners since 1991. This ribbon From 2010 until 2015, this ribbon was merged with the Ballon d'Or award.
Since 2004 the voting process is based on a shortlist of 35 players produced by FIFA, from which team captains, national team managers and select journalists vote for the winner.
From 2010 until 2015, the FIFA player of the year ribbon was merged with the Ballon d'Or and tabbed the FIFA Ballon d'Or. Compare this list to the player of the year equal to World Soccer magazine, and moreover the female player of the year.
Including the FIFA Ballon d'Or (years 2010-2015), Lionel Messi has won the ribbon six times, with Cristiano Ronaldo having won it five times.
Statue of Cristiano Ronaldo in the harbour of his hometown Funchal, Madeira
The 2016 and 2017 winner of the FIFA World Player of the Year winner was Cristiano Ronaldo, who moreover won the Ballon d'Or for the same periods. In 2018 he failed to win the hat-trick, polling second overdue Croatian Luka Modrić.
| year | player | nationality |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Robert Lewandowski | Poland |
| 2020 | Robert Lewandowski | Poland |
| 2019 | Lionel Messi | Argentina |
| 2018 | Luka Modrić | Croatia |
| 2017 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal |
| 2016 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal |
| 2015 | Lionel Messi | Argentina |
| 2014 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal |
| 2013 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal |
| 2012 | Lionel Messi | Argentina |
| 2011 | Lionel Messi | Argentina |
| 2010 | Lionel Messi | Argentina |
| 2009 | Lionel Messi | Argentina |
| 2008 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal |
| 2007 | Kaká | Brazil |
| 2006 | Fabio Cannavaro | Italy |
| 2005 | Ronaldinho | Brazil |
| 2004 | Ronaldinho | Brazil |
| 2003 | Zinedine Zidane | France |
| 2002 | Ronaldo | Brazil |
| 2001 | Luís Figo | Portugal |
| 2000 | Zinedine Zidane | France |
| 1999 | Rivaldo | Brazil |
| 1998 | Zinedine Zidane | France |
| 1997 | Ronaldo | Brazil |
| 1996 | Ronaldo | Brazil |
| 1995 | George Weah | Liberia |
| 1994 | Romário | Brazil |
| 1993 | Roberto Baggio | Italy |
| 1992 | Marco van Basten | Netherlands |
| 1991 | Lothar Matthäus | Germany |
