Footballer of the Year (Germany)
As Footballer of the Year , one player in Germany is honored every year as the most outstanding player of the season. The footballer of the year is chosen by the members of the Association of German Sport Journalists (VDS) and honored together with the trade journal Kicker -Sportmagazin . All German players as well as foreign players who are under contract with a Bundesliga club are eligible candidates .
story
The award has been made since 1960. Uwe Seeler was the first title holder. The first non-German title holder was the Brazilian Aílton in 2004 . Since then, four other foreign players have received this title. The current footballer of the year is the Pole Robert Lewandowski , who is the record footballer of the year in his home country , from FC Bayern Munich .
The record holder of the title is Franz Beckenbauer , who has been voted Footballer of the Year four times. At the age of 20 when he was first elected in 1966, he is also the youngest player to have received this honor. Michael Ballack , Sepp Maier and Uwe Seeler have each received three awards. Hans Tilkowski was the first goalkeeper to receive the title in 1965. The record winner in this position is Sepp Maier. The most successful club is FC Bayern Munich , which has provided the best footballer in Germany 22 times.
Midfielders have been honored 19 times . The largest time lag between the first and the last award was ten years (Franz Beckenbauer and Uwe Seeler). The oldest footballer of the year so far was Lothar Matthäus , who was 38 years old when he was second elected. As the first footballer to play abroad, Hans-Peter Briegel was voted Germany's Footballer of the Year in 1985. A total of six players playing abroad were honored, but they were also German national players at the time. Apart from Jürgen Klinsmann ( AS Monaco ) and Toni Kroos ( Real Madrid ), they all played in Italy.
Franz Beckenbauer (1976), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1980), Lothar Matthäus (1990) and Matthias Sammer (1996) were voted both German and European Footballer of the Year in the same year . In addition, Matthäus was also named World Footballer of the Year in 1991 . Jürgen Klinsmann is the only player who has been named Footballer of the Year both in Germany (1988 and 1994) and in another country ( England , 1995). By contrast, Andreas Brehme in Italy in 1989 , Bert Trautmann in England (1956), Uli Stielike (1979–1982) and Bernd Schuster (1985, 1991) in Spain , Jörg Albertz in China (2003), Steffen Hofmann (2004– 2006, 2008–2011) and Alexander Zickler (2006, 2007) in Austria and Thomas Broich (2012, 2014) in Australia named Footballer of the Year.
Except in 2008, when Franck Ribéry was elected, in the years in which Germany reached a European Championship or World Cup final, a player was always elected to the national team and in World Cup years - until 2010, when Arjen Robben received the title - regardless of the performance of the national team, a player from the German World Cup squad is always selected.
List of title holders
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- Year : The year in which the player was elected.
- Name : gives the name of the player.
- Nationality : states the nationality of the player, if written in bold , the national team was world or European champion in that year, if written in italics , it reached the World Cup or European Championship final.
- Club: Name the club the player was playing for at the time. Clubs in bold became champions that year.
- Position : states the position of the player: goal , defense , midfield , forward .
Leaderboards
This ranking lists players and their clubs who have received the title several times.
player
- Place : states the position of the player within this ranking list. This is determined by the number of titles. If the number of titles is the same, they are sorted alphabetically.
- Name : gives the name of the player. All players who are still active as professionals are written in bold .
- Number : states the number of titles won.
- Years : States the seasons in which the player became Footballer of the Year.
| city square | Surname | number | years |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Franz Beckenbauer | 4th | 1966, 1968, 1974, 1976 |
| 2. | Michael Ballack | 3 | 2002, 2003, 2005 |
| Sepp Maier | 3 | 1975, 1977, 1978 | |
| Uwe Seeler | 3 | 1960, 1964, 1970 | |
| 5. | Thomas Häßler | 2 | 1989, 1992 |
| Oliver Kahn | 2 | 2000, 2001 | |
| Jürgen Klinsmann | 2 | 1988, 1994 | |
| Robert Lewandowski | 2 | 2020, 2021 | |
| Lothar Matthäus | 2 | 1990, 1999 | |
| Gerd Müller | 2 | 1967, 1969 | |
| Günter Netzer | 2 | 1972, 1973 | |
| Manuel Neuer | 2 | 2011, 2014 | |
| Marco Reus | 2 | 2012, 2019 | |
| Matthias Sammer | 2 | 1995, 1996 | |
| Toni Schumacher | 2 | 1984, 1986 | |
| Berti Vogts | 2 | 1971, 1979 |
societies
- Place : states the position of the club within this ranking list. This is determined by the number of titles. If the number of titles is the same, they are sorted alphabetically.
- Club : gives the name of the club.
- Number : states the number of titles won.
- Years : states the seasons in which the club's players became Footballer of the Year.
| city square | society | number | years |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | FC Bayern Munich | 24 | 1966–1969, 1974–1978, 1980–1981, 1999–2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2013–2014, 2016–2017, 2020–2021 |
| 2. | Borussia Monchengladbach | 6th | 1971–1973, 1979, 1987, 2012 |
| 3. | 1. FC Cologne | 5 | 1962–1963, 1984, 1986, 1989 |
| Borussia Dortmund | 5 | 1965, 1995-1997, 2019 | |
| 5. | Werder Bremen | 3 | 1983, 2004, 2006 |
| Hamburger SV | 3 | 1960, 1964, 1970 | |
| VfB Stuttgart | 3 | 1982, 1988, 2007 | |
| 8th. | 1. FC Nuremberg | 2 | 1961, 1993 |
| VfL Wolfsburg | 2 | 2009, 2015 |
Positions
- Place : states the position of the position within this ranking list. This is determined by the number of awards. If the number is the same, it is sorted alphabetically.
- Position : Name the position.
- Number : states the number of awards received.
| city square | position | number |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | midfield | 19th |
| 2. | Storm | 18th |
| 3. | Defense | 13 |
| 4th | goalkeeper | 11 |
See also
- Footballer of the Year (GDR)
- Footballer of the Year (Germany)
- Football coach of the year (Germany)
- Footballer of the Century (Germany)
- Man of the year (soccer)
Web links
- All footballer of the year, including Germany, in world football
- Election results from 1960 to 2017, at Historical Lineups (PDF, 911 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ rsssf.com: (West) Germany - Footballer of the Year
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: England - Players Awards
- ↑ rsssf.com: Italy - Footballer of the Year
- ↑ rsssf.com: Spain - Player of the Year
- ↑ weltfussball.de: Footballer of the year in China
- ↑ rsssf.com: Austria - Player of the Year and Other Awards
- ↑ kicker.de: Press report - Thomas Broich is Australia's footballer of the year
