Best FIFA Football Awards: List of all winners

Best FIFA Football Awards take place every year for both men and women.

FIFA, the organization that oversees football, presents the Best FIFA Football Awards every year. Over the years many players have won the prize following their impressive performance for club and country.

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo remain the only players to win the award on more than one occasion. Both stars have gone head-to-head for the accolade several times during their playing career in Europe.

However, the former Barcelona player holds an edge with the most awards for the Best FIFA Men’s Player compared to Ronaldo’s two. Meanwhile, other winners have been Luka Modric and Robert Lewandowski.

The last player to win the award is Messi who led Argentina to the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The forward was handed the prize in 2023 beating the likes of Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe.

We take a look at the List of the Best FIFA Men’s Player winners.

List of the Best FIFA Men’s Player winners

Year	Player	Club
2016	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid
2017	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid
2018	Luka Modrić	Real Madrid
2019	Lionel Messi	Barcelona
2020	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich
2021	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich
2022	Lionel Messi	Paris Saint-Germain
2023	Lionel Messi	Paris Saint-Germain, Inter Miami

Since 2016, FIFA, the organization that oversees football, has given out the Best FIFA Women’s Player award every year to recognize the player who excelled over the preceding calendar year. From 2001 to 2015 the award was known as FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year.

Selection process for Best FIFA Women’s Player award

Both sports performance and overall behaviour on and off the field are taken into consideration when choosing the players of the year.

Media members, national team coaches, and national team captains cast their ballots. The announcement that the general public would also be able to vote was made in October 2016.

Alexia Putellas is the only Women’s football player to have won the award twice, while the rest have won once. Putellas won the prize in a row following her impressive performance for Barcelona‘s women’s team.

She could once again win the award but it’s going to be very unlikely as her teammate Aitana Bonmatí will compete with her for the accolade.

List of the Best FIFA Women’s Player winners

Year	Player	Club
2016	Carli Lloyd	Houston Dash
2017	Lieke Martens	Barcelona
2018	Marta	Orlando Pride
2019	Megan Rapinoe	Reign FC
2020	Lucy Bronze	Manchester City
2021	Alexia Putellas	Barcelona
2022	Alexia Putellas	Barcelona
2023	Aitana Bonmatí	Barcelona

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