Here are the top FIFA Ballon d'Or men's player of the year honor victors since 1991. This grant is offered yearly to the player why should believed be the best on the planet, in view of votes by mentors of worldwide groups. This recompense is frequently mistaken for the now old Ballon d'Or European Footballer of the year which was granted from 1956 until 2009.
Since 2004 the voting procedure depends on a shortlist of 35 created by FIFA, from which group skippers and agents from FIFPro vote notwithstanding the national group supervisors. In 2010, the FIFA player of the year recompense was converged with the Ballon d'Or, and now the grant is known as the FIFA Ballon d'Or. Contrast this rundown with the player of the year as indicated by World Soccer magazine, furthermore the female player of the year.
Joining the FIFA Ballon d'Or (years 2010+) and FIFA World Player of the Year grants (1991 to 2009), Lionel Messi has won the grant four times, with different players having won it three times: Cristiano Ronaldo, Zidane and Ronaldo.
year | player | nationality | |||||||||||
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2014 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | |||||||||||
2013 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | |||||||||||
2012 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | |||||||||||
2011 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | |||||||||||
2010 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | |||||||||||
2009 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | |||||||||||
2008 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | |||||||||||
2007 | Kaká | Brazil | |||||||||||
2006 | Fabio Cannavaro | Italy | |||||||||||
2005 | Ronaldinho | Brazil | |||||||||||
2004 | Ronaldinho | Brazil | |||||||||||
2003 | Zinedine Zidane | France | |||||||||||
2002 | Ronaldo | Brazil | |||||||||||
2001 | Luís Figo | Portugal | |||||||||||
2000 | Zinedine Zidane | France | |||||||||||
1999 | Rivaldo | Brazil | |||||||||||
1998 | Zinedine Zidane | France | |||||||||||
1997 | Ronaldo | Brazil | |||||||||||
1996 | Ronaldo | Brazil | |||||||||||
1995 | George Weah | Liberia | |||||||||||
1994 | Romário | Brazil | |||||||||||
1993 | Roberto Baggio | Italy | |||||||||||
1992 | Marco van Basten | Netherlands | |||||||||||
1991 | Lothar Matthäus | Germany | Source: | topendsports |