Association football award
Award
FIFA World Player Gala was an association football award show presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA , throughout 1991–2009.
The first awarding ceremony was held on 8 December 1991 in Zürich , Switzerland. The award show was superseded first by the FIFA Ballon d'Or during 2010-15, and since 2016 by The Best FIFA Football Awards . FIFA consider the three historic versions of its gala show as subversions of the same event, and thus celebrated its 30 years anniversary in 2021. FIFA's historical statistics also list the awards in one overall list, comprising the records of all three gala show versions.
Awards by year
1991 awards
World Player of the year : Lothar MATTHAEUS (GER)FIFA Fair Play Award: Real Federación Española de Fútbol (Spanish FA), JORGINHO (BRA) 1992 awards
World Player of the year : Marco VAN BASTEN (NED)FIFA Fair Play Award: Union Royale Belge des Sociétés de Football Association 1993 awards
World Player of the year : Roberto BAGGIO (ITA)FIFA Fair Play Award: Nandor Hidgekuti, (individual award) (HUM), Football Association of Zambia
Top Team of the Year Award: Germany
Best Mover of the Year: Colombia 1994 awards
1995 awards
World Player of the year : George WEAH (LBR)FIFA Fair Play Award: Jacques Glassmann (FRA)
Top Team of the Year Award: Brazil
Best Mover of the Year: Jamaica 1996 awards
World Player of the year : RONALDO (BRA)FIFA Fair Play Award: George WEAH (LBR)
Top Team of the Year Award: Brazil
Best Mover of the Year: South Africa 1997 awards
World Player of the year : RONALDO (BRA)FIFA Fair Play Award: Irish spectators of the World Cup preliminary match versus Belgium, Jozef Zovinec (Slovak amateur player), Julie FOUDY (USA)
Top Team of the Year Award: Brazil
Best Mover of the Year: Yugoslavia 1998 awards
World Player of the year : Zinedine ZIDANE (FRA)FIFA Fair Play Award: The national associations of Iran, the USA and Northern Ireland
Top Team of the Year Award: Brazil
Best Mover of the Year: Croatia 1999 awards
World Player of the year : RIVALDO (BRA)FIFA Fair Play Award: New Zealand’s football community
Top Team of the Year Award: Brazil
Best Mover of the Year: Slovenia 2000 awards
World Player of the year : Zinedine ZIDANE (FRA)FIFA Fair Play Award: Lucas RADEBE (RSA)
Top Team of the Year Award: Netherlands
Best Mover of the Year: Nigeria 2001 awards
2002 awards
2003 awards
2004 awards
World Player of the year : RONALDINHO (BRA)Women's World Player of the Year : Birgit PRINZ (GER)FIFA Presidential award: Haiti
FIFA Fair Play Award: Confederaçao Brasileira de Futebol
Top Team of the Year Award: Brazil
Best Mover of the Year: China PR
FIFA Interactive World Player: Thiago Carrico de Azevedo 2005 awards
World Player of the year : RONALDINHO (BRA)Women's World Player of the Year : Birgit PRINZ (GER)FIFA Presidential award: FRISK Anders (SWE)
FIFA Fair Play Award: football community of Iquitos (Peru)
Top Team of the Year Award: Brazil
Best Mover of the Year: Ghana
FIFA Interactive World Player: Chris Bullard 2006 awards
World Player of the year : Fabio CANNAVARO (ITA)Women's World Player of the Year : MARTA (BRA)FIFA Presidential award: Giacinto FACCHETTI (ITA)
FIFA Fair Play Award: Brazil, Spain
Top Team of the Year Award: Brazil
Best Mover of the Year: Italy
FIFA Interactive World Player: Andries Smit 2007 awards
2008 awards
2009 awards
World Player of the year : Lionel MESSI (ARG)Women's World Player of the year : MARTA (BRA)FIFA Presidential award: Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan
FIFA Fair Play Award: Bobby ROBSON (ENG)
FIFA Development Award: Chinese Football Association
FIFA Puskás Award :
FIFA/FIFPro World XI :
Iker Casillas (goalkeeper, Real Madrid )Patrice Evra (defender, Manchester United )John Terry (defender, Chelsea )Nemanja Vidić (defender, Manchester United )Dani Alves (defender, Barcelona )Andrés Iniesta (midfielder, Barcelona )Xavi (midfielder, Barcelona )Steven Gerrard (midfielder, Liverpool )Cristiano Ronaldo (forward, Manchester United /Real Madrid )Fernando Torres (forward, Liverpool )Lionel Messi (forward, Barcelona )Awards by name
Official awards given at the annual FIFA World Player Gala (note most awards were continuously given by FIFA after 2009 - just under a different FIFA Gala name):
See also
References
^ "Fact sheet: FIFA Awards 1991-2015" (PDF). FIFA.com. 18 January 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 January 2016.
"Matthaus: It can only be Lewandowski" . FIFA.com. 3 December 2020. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022."From World Player of the Year to The Best: 30 years of history" . FIFA.com. 22 November 2021. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021."A brief history of The Best" . FIFA.com. 23 November 2021. Archived from the original on 23 November 2021."FIFA FIFPRO WORLD XI 2009" . Archived from the original on 2 March 2014.{{cite web }}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )
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