World Player of Year

European Player of Year

European Golden Boot

#	1st	2nd	3rd
2007	Kaka Brazil	Messi Brazil	Ronaldo Portugal
2006	Fabio Cannavaro Italy	Zinedine Zidane France	Ronaldinho Brazil
2005	Ronaldinho Brazil	Frank Lampard England	Samuel Eto'o Cameroon
2004	Ronaldinho Brazil	Thierry Henry France	Andriy Shevchenko Ukraine
2003	Zinedine Zidane France	Thierry Henry France	Ronaldo Brazil
2002	Ronaldo Brazil	Oliver Kahn Germany	Zinedine Zidane France
2001	Luís Figo Portugal	David Beckham England	Raúl Spain
2000	Zinedine Zidane France	Luís Figo Portugal	Rivaldo Brazil
1999	Rivaldo Brazil	David Beckham England	Gabriel Batistuta Argentina
1998	Zinedine Zidane France	Ronaldo Brazil	Davor Šuker Croatia
1997	Ronaldo Brazil	Roberto Carlos Brazil	Dennis Bergkamp Netherlands Zinedine Zidane France
1996	Ronaldo Brazil	George Weah Liberia	Alan Shearer England
1995	George Weah Liberia	Paolo Maldini Italy	Jürgen Klinsmann Germany
1994	Romário Brazil	Hristo Stoichkov Bulgaria	Roberto Baggio Italy
1993	Roberto Baggio Italy	Romário Brazil	Dennis Bergkamp Netherlands
1992	Marco van Basten Netherlands	Hristo Stoichkov Bulgaria	Thomas Häßler Germany
1991	Lothar Matthäus Germany	Jean-Pierre Papin France	Gary Lineker England
The FIFA World Player of the Year is a football award given annually to the male and female player who is thought to be the best in the world, based on votes by coaches and captains of international teams. In a voting system based on a type of a Borda count, each coach gets three votes, worth five points, three points and one point, and the winners are ordered based on total number of points.