FIFA World Player of the Year 2016

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World Player of the Year 2016
Cristiano Ronaldo

The FIFA World Player of the Year 2016 (officially: The Best FIFA Men's Player ) was chosen on January 9, 2017 in Zurich . It was the 26th award of the “ World Footballer of the Year ” award introduced by the FIFA World Cup in 1991 . After the title had been awarded jointly with France Football under the name FIFA Ballon d'Or from 2010 to 2015, FIFA returned to awarding it on its own. The winner of the award was Cristiano Ronaldo .

Voting mode

The winner was determined through a vote among national coaches , national team captains, media representatives and fans. They each named the three best footballers in their opinion. An entry in first place brought five points, a second place three points, the third place one point. Then the points were added.

Result

placement Surname nationality society Share of votes
1. Cristiano Ronaldo PortugalPortugal Portugal SpainSpain real Madrid 34.54%
2. Lionel Messi ArgentinaArgentina Argentina SpainSpain FC Barcelona 26.24%
3. Antoine Griezmann FranceFrance France SpainSpain Atlético Madrid 7.53%
4th Neymar BrazilBrazil Brazil SpainSpain FC Barcelona 6.23%
5. Luis Suarez UruguayUruguay Uruguay SpainSpain FC Barcelona 5.11%
6th Gareth Bale WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wales SpainSpain real Madrid 4.62%
7th Riyad Mahrez AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria EnglandEngland Leicester City 2.20%
8th. Gianluigi Buffon ItalyItaly Italy ItalyItaly Juventus Turin 1.85%
9. Andrés Iniesta SpainSpain Spain SpainSpain FC Barcelona 1.69%
10. Toni Kroos GermanyGermany Germany SpainSpain real Madrid 1.25%
11. Alexis Sánchez ChileChile Chile EnglandEngland Arsenal FC 1.19%
12. Robert Lewandowski PolandPoland Poland GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich 0.93%
13. Luka Modrić CroatiaCroatia Croatia SpainSpain real Madrid 0.89%
14th Mesut Özil GermanyGermany Germany EnglandEngland Arsenal FC 0.86%
15th Jamie Vardy EnglandEngland England EnglandEngland Leicester City 0.81%
16. Manuel Neuer GermanyGermany Germany GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich 0.80%
17th Sergio Ramos SpainSpain Spain SpainSpain real Madrid 0.70%
18th Zlatan Ibrahimović SwedenSweden Sweden FranceFrance Paris Saint-Germain / Manchester UnitedEnglandEngland  0.50%
19th Paul Pogba FranceFrance France ItalyItaly Juventus / Manchester UnitedEnglandEngland  0.47%
20th Kevin De Bruyne BelgiumBelgium Belgium EnglandEngland Manchester City 0.46%
21st N'Golo Kanté FranceFrance France EnglandEngland Leicester City / Chelsea FCEnglandEngland  0.40%
22nd Sergio Aguero ArgentinaArgentina Argentina EnglandEngland Manchester City 0.38%
23. Dimitri Payet FranceFrance France EnglandEngland West Ham United 0.17%

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIFA Football Awards 2016 - Voting Results. (PDF) In: fifa.com. FIFA , accessed January 10, 2016 .