World player of the year

AWARDS

WORLD PLAYER OF THE YEAR

YEAR	PLAYER	COUNTRY	TEAM
1991	Lothar Matthaus	Germany	FC Inter Milan
1992	Marco Van Basten	Netherlands	AC Milan
1993	Roberto Baggio	Italy	FC Juventus Turin
1994	Romario da Souza Faria	Brazil	FC Barcelona Flamengo
1995	George Weah	Liberia	AC Milan
1996	Ronaldo Nazario de Lima	Brazil	PSV Eindhoven FC Barcelona
1997	Ronaldo Nazario de Lima	Brazil	FC Barcelona FC Inter Milan
1998	Zinedine Zidane	France	FC Juventus Turin
1999	Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira	Brazil	FC Barcelona
2000	Zinedine Zidane	France	FC Juventus Turin
2001	Luis Figo	Portugal	FC Real Madrid
2002	Ronaldo Nazario de Lima	Brazil	FC Inter Milan FC Real Madrid
2003	Zinedine Zidane	France	FC Real Madrid
2004	Ronaldo de Assis "Ronaldinho"	Brazil	FC Barcelona
2005	Ronaldo de Assis "Ronaldinho"	Brazil	FC Barcelona

NOTE
Elected by the coaches of the national teams,
each selecting three players who obtain respectively 5 - 3 - 1 points.

TOP 10 RANKING

1991
(66 votes)

1992
(71 votes)

1993
(71 votes)

1994
(83 votes)

1995
(95 votes)

NR	PLAYER	COUNTRY	POINTS
1	George Weah	Liberia	170
2	Paolo Maldini	Italy	80
3	Jurgen Klinsmann	Germany	58
4	Romario de Souza Faria	Brazil	50
5	Roberto Baggio	Italy	49
6	Hristo Stoichkov	Bulgaria	37
7	Ivan Zamorano	Chile	36
8	Osvaldo Giroldo Junior Juninho	Brazil	28
9	Matthias Sammer	Germany	23
10	Michael Laudrup	Denmark	20
"	Gianfranco Zola	Italy	20

1996
(120 votes)

1997
(121 votes)

NR	PLAYER	COUNTRY	POINTS
1	Ronaldo Nazario de Lima	Brazil	480
2	Roberto Carlos Da Silva	Brazil	85
3	Dennis Bergkamp	Netherlands	62
4	Zinedine Zidane	France	62
5	Raul Gonzales Blanco	Spain	51
6	Alessandro Del Piero	Italy	27
7	Davor Suker	Croatia	20
8	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	16
9	Alan Shearer	England	16
10	Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo	Brazil	14
"	Peter Schmeichel	Denmark	14

1998
(140 votes)

NR	PLAYER	COUNTRY	POINTS
1	Zinedine Zidane	France	518
2	Ronaldo Nazario de Lima	Brazil	164
3	Davor Suker	Croatia	108
4	Michael Owen	England	43
5	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	40
6	Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira	Brazil	37
7	Dennis Bergkamp	Netherlands	33
8	Edgar Davids	Netherlands	26
9	Marcel Desailly	France	23
10	Lilian Thuram	France	14

1999
(140 votes)

NR	PLAYER	COUNTRY	POINTS
1	Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira	Brazil	543
2	David Beckham	England	194
3	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	79
4	Zinedine Zidane	France	68
5	Christian Vieri	Italy	39
6	Luis Figo	Portugal	35
7	Andrei Shevchenko	Ukraine	34
8	Raul Gonzales Blanco	Spain	31
9	Andy Cole	England	24
10	Dwight Yorke	Trinidad & Tobago	19

2000
(150 votes)

NR	PLAYER	COUNTRY	POINTS
1	Zinedine Zidane	France	370
2	Luis Figo	Portugal	329
3	Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira	Brazil	263
4	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	57
5	Andrei Shevchenko	Ukraine	48
6	David Beckham	England	41
7	Thierry Henry	France	35
8	Alessandro Nesta	Italy	23
9	Patrick Kluivert	Netherlands	22
10	Francesco Totti	Italy	14
"	Raul Gonzales Blanco	Spain	14

2001
(130 votes)

NR	PLAYER	COUNTRY	POINTS
1	Luis Figo	Portugal	250
2	David Beckham	England	238
3	Raul Gonzalez Blanco	Spain	96
4	Zinedine Zidane	France	94
5	Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira	Brazil	92
6	Juan Sebastian Veron	Argentina	71
7	Oliver Kahn	Germany	65
8	Michael Owen	England	61
9	Andriy Shevchenko	Ukraine	46
10	Francesco Totti	Italy	40

2002
(147 votes)

NR	PLAYER	COUNTRY	POINTS
1	Ronaldo Nazario de Lima	Brazil	387
2	Oliver Kahn	Germany	171
3	Zinedine Zidane	France	148
4	Roberto Carlos Da Silva	Brazil	114
5	Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira	Brazil	92
6	Raul Gonzalez Blanco	Spain	90
7	Michael Ballack	Germany	82
8	David Beckham	England	51
9	Thierry Henry	France	38
10	Michael Owen	England	34

2003
(142 votes)

2004
(302 votes : 157 coaches / 145 captains)

2005
(301 votes : 156 coaches / 145 captains)