Africa's Footballer of the Year 2018

Mohamed Salah (2018)

Africa's Footballer of the Year 2018 ( English CAF Best African Player of the Year ) was chosen on January 8, 2019 by the continental association CAF in the Senegalese capital Dakar . The Egyptian Mohamed Salah won the award for the second time in a row.

Voting mode

On November 30, 2018, the 34 candidates for election were announced. The members of the 18-strong CAF Technical and Development Committee awarded five, four, three, two and one point to what they considered the best footballers from the shortlist. Then the points were added. On December 14, 2018, a shortlist of ten candidates was published on the basis of this vote . The national coaches and the captains of the national teams of all 56 CAF regional associations were allowed to vote according to the same system , as well as 16 African media experts and club coaches as well as ten football “legends”.

Result

rank	player	nationality	society	be right
1.	Mohamed Salah	Egypt	Liverpool FC	567
2.	Sadio Mané	Senegal	Liverpool FC	440
3.	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Gabon	Arsenal FC	197
4th	Riyad Mahrez	Algeria	Manchester City	193
5.	Medhi Benatia	Morocco	Juventus Turin	105
6th	Alex Iwobi	Nigeria	Arsenal FC	100
7th	Anice Badri	Tunisia	Espérance Tunis	64
8th.	André Onana	Cameroon	Ajax Amsterdam	49
9.	Walid Soliman	Egypt	al Ahly Cairo	48
10.	Denis Onyango	Uganda	Mamelodi Sundowns	45
Preselection list
11.	Kalidou Koulibaly	Senegal	SSC Naples	6th
12.	Ahmed Musa	Nigeria	al-Nasr	5
	Hakim Ziyech	Morocco	Ajax Amsterdam	5
14th	Idrissa Gueye	Senegal	Everton FC	4th
15th	Wahbi Khazri	Tunisia	AS Saint-Etienne	3
16.	Ben Malango	DR Congo	TP Mazembe	2
17th	Ayoub El Kaabi	Morocco	Hebei China Fortune	1
	Naby Keïta	Guinea	Liverpool FC	1
	Percy Tau	South Africa	Royale Union Saint-Gilloise	1

Other candidates on the pre-selection list who received no vote were:

Abdelmoumene Djabou ( ES Sétif )  Ahmed Gomaa ( al-Masry )  Faneva Andriatsima ( Clermont Foot )  Franck Kom ( Espérance Tunis )  Jacinto Muondo Dala ( CD Primeiro de Agosto )  Ismail Haddad ( Wydad Casablanca )  Jean-Marc Makusu Mundele ( AS Vita Club )  Mahmoud Benhalib ( Raja Casablanca )

Moussa Marega ( FC Porto )  Odion Ighalo ( Changchun Yatai )  Taha Yassine Khenissi ( Espérance Tunis )  Thomas Partey ( Atlético Madrid )  Wilfried Zaha ( Crystal Palace )  Yacine Brahimi ( FC Porto )  Youcef Belaïli ( Espérance Tunis )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Salah retains African award to seal great day for Egypt. In: cafonline.com (January 8, 2019).
2. ↑ Nominees for CAF Awards 2018. In: cafonline.com (November 30, 2018).
3. ↑ Caf Awards 2018: Three Africa-based players make 10-man shortlist. In: bbc.co.uk (December 14, 2018).
4. ↑ Phase 3 (Media Experts, Legends, Coaches of Interclubs quarter finalists and Total). In: cafonline.com (January 8, 2019).
5. ↑ Phase 1 (Technical and Development Committee). In: cafonline.com (January 8, 2019).