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Rec.Sport.Soccer
Statistics Foundation
(RSSSF)

Available in	English
Created by	Lars Aarhus Kent Hedlundh Karel Stokkermans
URL	rsssf.org
Launched	January 1994; 30 years ago (1994-01), as Northern European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (NERSSSF)
Current status	Active

The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) is an international organisation dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world.

Website

The RSSSF website contains football-related statistics in the form of lists without commentary and it is maintained by volunteer contributors. It is considered one of "the most complete" publicly available statistical football databases in the world, and has virtually every piece of historical information.

This enterprise, according to its founders, was created in January 1994 by three regulars of the Rec.Sport.Soccer (RSS) Usenet newsgroup: Lars Aarhus, Kent Hedlundh, and Karel Stokkermans. It was originally known as the "North European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation", but the geographical reference was dropped as its membership from other regions grew.

The RSSSF has members and contributors from all around the world and has spawned seven spin-off projects to more closely follow the leagues of that project's home country. The spin-off projects are dedicated to Albania, Brazil, Denmark, Norway, Romania, Uruguay, Venezuela and Egypt. In November 2002, the Polish service 90minut.pl became the official branch of RSSSF Poland.

Player of the Year award

The Rec.Sport.Soccer Player of the Year Award was an annual football award presented by the organisation. First presented in 1992, the readers of the newsgroup voted in a format similar to that of the France Football Ballon d'Or award. It recognised the best player in the world and was discontinued after the 2005 edition.

Award winners Year Rank Player Team Votes 1992 1st Marco van Basten AC Milan 207 2nd Hristo Stoichkov Barcelona 87 3rd Peter Schmeichel Manchester United 62 1993 1st Roberto Baggio Juventus 407 2nd Romário Barcelona 295 3rd Dennis Bergkamp Inter Milan 178 1994 1st Romário Barcelona 269 2nd Hristo Stoichkov Barcelona 254 3rd Paolo Maldini AC Milan 158 1995 1st George Weah AC Milan 153 2nd Paolo Maldini AC Milan 102 3rd Patrick Kluivert Ajax 88 1996 1st Ronaldo Barcelona 348 2nd Alan Shearer Newcastle United 241 3rd Matthias Sammer Borussia Dortmund 215 1997 1st Ronaldo Inter Milan 276 2nd Zinedine Zidane Juventus 129 3rd Gabriel Batistuta Fiorentina 75 1998 1st Zinedine Zidane Juventus 335 2nd Gabriel Batistuta Fiorentina 175 3rd Lilian Thuram Parma 136 1999 1st Rivaldo Barcelona 536 2nd David Beckham Manchester United 313 3rd Andriy Shevchenko AC Milan 186 2000 1st Luís Figo Real Madrid 648 2nd Zinedine Zidane Juventus 535 3rd Rivaldo Barcelona 272 2001 1st Michael Owen Liverpool 288 2nd Luís Figo Real Madrid 234 3rd Raúl Real Madrid 216 2002 1st Ronaldo Real Madrid 447 2nd Roberto Carlos Real Madrid 371 3rd Zinedine Zidane Real Madrid 341 2003 1st Pavel Nedvěd Juventus 818 2nd Thierry Henry Arsenal 540 3rd Zinedine Zidane Real Madrid 350 2004 1st Ronaldinho Barcelona 437 2nd Andriy Shevchenko AC Milan 329 3rd Deco Barcelona 297 2005 1st Ronaldinho Barcelona 482 2nd Frank Lampard Chelsea 281 3rd Steven Gerrard Liverpool 191

Wins by player Player Winner Second place Third place Ronaldo 3 (1996, 1997, 2002) — — Ronaldinho 2 (2004, 2005) — — Zinedine Zidane 1 (1998) 2 (1997, 2000) 2 (2002, 2003) Romário 1 (1994) 1 (1993) — Luís Figo 1 (2000) 1 (2001) — Rivaldo 1 (1999) — 1 (2000) Marco van Basten 1 (1992) — — Roberto Baggio 1 (1993) — — George Weah 1 (1995) — — Michael Owen 1 (2001) — — Pavel Nedvěd 1 (2003) — — Wins by nationality Nationality Players Wins  Brazil 4 7  France 1 1  England 1 1  Portugal 1 1  Italy 1 1  Netherlands 1 1  Liberia 1 1  Czech Republic 1 1 Wins by club Club Players Wins Barcelona 4 5 Juventus 3 3 Real Madrid 2 2 AC Milan 2 2 Inter Milan 1 1 Liverpool 1 1

See also

• Association of Football Statisticians

References

1. Finkelstein, Daniel (15 November 2003). "Weighting in vain for Fifa's ranking aficionados". The Times. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
2. Witzig, Richard (2006). The Global Art of Soccer. New Orleans: CusiBoy Publishing. p. 418. ISBN 0-977-66880-0.
3. Loek Groot (25 January 2008). Economics, Uncertainty and European Football: Trends in Competitive Balance. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-78100-823-2. Archived from the original on 22 January 2023. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
4. "O stronie". 90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 30 May 2023.
5. ^ "Rec.sport.soccer Player of the Year Award". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.

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