The Best FIFA Football Awards is an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
award presented annually by the sport's governing body,
FIFA
FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was found ...
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The
first awarding ceremony was held on 9 January 2017 in
Zürich
Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 43 ...
, Switzerland.
The award is aimed at reviving the
FIFA World Player Gala.
Men's awards
The Best FIFA Men's Player
The Best FIFA Men's Goalkeeper
The Best FIFA Men's Coach
FIFA FIFPro Men's World 11
Women's awards
The Best FIFA Women's Player
The Best FIFA Women's Goalkeeper
The Best FIFA Women's Coach
FIFA FIFPro Women's World 11
Mixed awards
FIFA Fair Play Award
FIFA Puskás Award
FIFA Fan Award
FIFA Special Award for an Outstanding Career Achievement
Awards by year
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The Best FIFA Football Awards 2016
The Best FIFA Football Awards 2016 were held on 9 January 2017 in Zürich, Switzerland. The Best FIFA Football Awards are the annual recognitions awarded by FIFA to several individuals across different categories, including: best eleven players of ...
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The Best FIFA Football Awards 2017
The Best FIFA Football Awards 2017 were held on 23 October 2017 in London, United Kingdom. The ceremony was held at the London Palladium and was hosted by Idris Elba and Layla Anna-Lee. Cristiano Ronaldo, Lieke Martens, Gianluigi Buffon, Zinedine ...
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The Best FIFA Football Awards 2018
The Best FIFA Football Awards 2018 were held on 24 September 2018 in London, United Kingdom. The selection panels were announced on 4 July 2018.
Winners and nominees The Best FIFA Men's Player
Ten players were shortlisted on 24 July 2018. The ...
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The Best FIFA Football Awards 2019
The Best FIFA Football Awards 2019 were held on 23 September 2019 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. The ceremony was attended by some of the most well known former players and managers such as Marco Van Basten, Marcel Desailly, Gianlucca Z ...
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The Best FIFA Football Awards 2020
The Best FIFA Football Awards 2020 were held on 17 December 2020. The ceremony was held virtually due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Winners and nominees
The Best FIFA Men's Player
Eleven players were shortlisted on 25 November 2020. The thr ...
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The Best FIFA Football Awards 2021
The Best FIFA Football Awards 2021 were held on 17 January 2022. The ceremony was held virtually due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Winners and nominees
The Best FIFA Men's Player
Eleven players were initially shortlisted on 22 November 20 ...
Awards by name
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The Best FIFA Men's Player
The Best FIFA Men's Player is an association football award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA, since 2016, to honour the player deemed to have performed the best over the previous calendar year. The award was formerly known ...
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The Best FIFA Women's Player
The Best FIFA Women's Player is a football
award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA, since 2016, to honour the player deemed to have performed the best over the previous calendar year. From 2001 to 2015, the award was know ...
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The Best FIFA Men's Coach
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The Best FIFA Women's Coach
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The Best FIFA Men's Goalkeeper
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The Best FIFA Women's Goalkeeper
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FIFA Puskás Award
The FIFA Puskás Award is an award established on 20 October 2009 by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA), at the behest of then-president Sepp Blatter, to be awarded to the male or female judged to have scored the mo ...
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FIFA Fair Play Award
The FIFA Fair Play Award is a FIFA recognition of exemplary behaviour that promotes the spirit of fair play and compassion in :association football around the world. First awarded in 1987, it has been presented to individuals (including posthu ...
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FIFA Fan Award
The Best FIFA Football Awards is an association football award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA.
The first awarding ceremony was held on 9 January 2017 in Zürich, Switzerland. The award is aimed at reviving the FIFA W ...
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FIFA FIFPro Men's World 11
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FIFA FIFPro Women's World 11
See also
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Ballon d'Or
The Ballon d'Or (; ) is an annual football award presented by French news magazine ''France Football'' since 1956. Between 2010 and 2015, in an agreement with FIFA, the award was temporarily merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year (fo ...
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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 ...
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FIFA World Player of the Year
The FIFA World Player of the Year was an association football award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA, between 1991 and 2015 at the FIFA World Player Gala. Coaches and captains of international teams and media representativ ...
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FIFA World Player Gala
References
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FIFA trophies and awards
Awards established in 2016
Association football player of the year awards