The 2015

FIFA Ballon d'Or The FIFA Ballon d'Or ("Golden Ball") was an annual association football award presented to the world's best men's player from 2010 to 2015. Awarded jointly by FIFA and ''France Football'', the prize was a merger of the FIFA World Player of the Ye ...

Gala was the sixth year for

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's awards for the top football players and coaches of the year. The awards were given out in Zürich, Switzerland on 11 January 2016.

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won the award as the World Player of the Year for the fifth time, extending his own record of five wins.

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was named as the Women's World Player of the Year, while

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received the World Coach of the Year for Men's Football and

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the World Coach of the Year for Women's Football. The ceremony was hosted by

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and

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Winners and nominees

In late October 2015, FIFA revealed shortlist for the FIFA Ballon d'Or, FIFA Women's World Player of the Year and FIFA World Coaches of the Year. The shortlists for the women's awards were revealed on 19 October and the men's on 20 October.

FIFA Ballon d'Or

The results for the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or were: The following 20 men were originally in contention for the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or:

FIFA Puskás Award

The winner of the

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was: * Wendell Lira (

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), 1–2 vs

Atlético Goianiense Atlético, Spanish for ''athletics'', or Athletico in English, may refer to: Sports Teams Athletico * Athletico SC (Lebanon), a Lebanese football academy * Athletic Bilbao, or Atletico Bilbao, Basque students athletic club (also forming Athletic ...

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, 11 March 2015 The other nominees were: *

(

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), 1–3 vs

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, 30 May 2015 *

Alessandro Florenzi Alessandro Florenzi (born 11 March 1991) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a full-back for club AC Milan and the Italy national team. Florenzi started his professional club career with Roma in 2011, but spent the 2011–12 ...

(

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), 1–1 vs

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, 16 September 2015

FIFA/FIFPro World XI

FIFA Women's World Player of the Year

The results for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Player of the Year were: The following 7 players were also named to the shortlist for the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year award:

FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men's Football

The following were the final 3 nominees for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men's Football: The following 7 managers were also named to the shortlist for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men's Football:

FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women's Football

The following are the final 3 nominees for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women's Football: The following 7 managers were also named to the shortlist for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women's Football:

References

External links

* {{FIFA Puskás Award FIFA Ballon FIFA Ballon d'Or FIFA Ballon Women's association football trophies and awards 2015 in women's association football