Barcelona swept the board in the 33rd annual World Soccer Awards, winning all three categories. Lionel Messi is Player of the Year for a record fourth time, while Luis Enrique is Manager of the Year.
Barcelona, not surprisingly after their trophy-laden year, claimed the Team of the Year title.
The awards are recognition for the starring role played by Messi in Barcelona’s treble triumph of Champions League,
La Liga and Spanish Cup. They capped a memorable year by beating River Plate to win the Club World Cup in Japan.
Barcelona had three of the top four players, with Messi’s team-mates Neymar and Luis Suarez finishing third and fourth respectively, with Andres Iniesta making it four players in the top seven.
The treble win for Barcelona was a repeat of their clean sweep in 2009, when Messi won his first World Player title, and Pep Guardiola was Manager of the Year.
Last year’s winner, Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid, finished second, while there were also three Bayern Munich players in the top 10: Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Muller and Manuel Neuer.
Luis Enrique was the clear winner of the Manager award, ahead of Chile’s Jorge Sampaoli and Pep Guardiola of Bayern.
And Barcelona were emphatic victors of the Team award, ahead of Copa America winners Chile.
The awards were decided by votes from a panel of 100 journalists and pundits who chose their top 10 players of the year, with points awarded to each selection.
RESULTS
WORLD PLAYER OF THE YEAR
1 Lionel Messi
Barcelona & Argentina 927
2 Cristiano Ronaldo
Real Madrid & Portugal 702
3 Neymar
Barcelona & Brazil 675
4 Luis Suarez
Barcelona & Uruguay 582
5 Robert Lewandowski
Bayern Munich & Poland 450
6 Thomas Muller
Bayern Munich & Germany 240
7 Andres Iniesta
Barcelona & Spain 222
8 Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Paris Saint-Germain
& Sweden 196
9 Paul Pogba
Juventus & France 137
10 Manuel Neuer
Bayern Munich & Germany 131
11 Alexis Sanchez
Arsenal & Chile 123
12 Eden Hazard
Chelsea & Belgium 102
13 Sergio Aguero
Manchester City & Argentina 98
14 Kevin De Bruyne
Wolfsburg/Manchester City & Belgium 78
15 Arturo Vidal
Juventus/Bayern Munich
& Chile 73
16 Gianluigi Buffon
Juventus & Italy 72
17 Carlos Tevez
Juventus/Boca Juniors
& Argentina 43
18 Yaya Toure
Manchester City & Ivory Coast 39
19= Gareth Bale
Real Madrid & Wales 36
19= Ivan Rakitic
Barcelona & Croatia 36
21 Javier Mascherano
Barcelona & Argentina 27
22 Jerome Boateng
Bayern Munich & Germany 26
23= Andrea Pirlo
Juventus/New York City FC
& Italy 24
23= Pierre-Emerick Aubameyeng
Borussia Dortmund & Gabon 22
25 Wayne Rooney
Manchester Utd & England 19
26= Sergio Busquets
Barcelona & Spain 18
26= Giorgio Chiellini
Juventus & Italy 18
28 Arjen Robben
Bayern Munich & Holland 16
29= David Alaba
Bayern Munich & Austria 14
29= Diego Costa
Chelsea & Spain 14
31= Douglas Costa
Shakhtar Donetsk/
Bayern Munich & Brazil 11
31= Diego Godin
Atletico Madrid & Uruguay 11
33= Dani Alves
Barcelona & Brazil 10
33= Philippe Coutinho
Liverpool & Brazil 10
33= Sergio Ramos
Real Madrid & Spain 10
33= James Rodriguez
Real Madrid & Colombia 10
37= Marco Reus
Borussia Dortmund & Germany 9
37= David Silva
Manchester City & Spain 9
39 David De Gea
Manchester Utd & Spain 7
39= Oscar
Chelsea & Brazil 7
39= Raphael Varane
Real Madrid & France 7
42= Karim Benzema
Real Madrid & France 6
42= Leonardo Bonucci
Juventus & Italy 6
42= Harry Kane
Tottenham Hotspur & England 6
42= Gerard Pique
Barcelona & Spain 6
42= Xavi
Barcelona/Al Sadd & Spain 6
42= Andriy Yarmolenko
Dynamo Kiev & Ukraine 6
48= Luka Modric
Real Madrid & Croatia 5
48= Thiago Silva
Paris Saint-Germain & Brazil 5
48= Fernando Torres
Atletico Madrid & Spain 5
48= Robin Van Persie
Manchester Utd/Fenerbahce & Holland 5
52= Gonzalo Higuain
Napoli & Argentina 4
52= Toni Kroos
Real Madrid & Germany 4
52= Philipp Lahm
Bayern Munich & Germany 4
52= Claudio Marchisio
Juventus & Italy 4
52= Keylor Navas
Real Madrid & Costa Rica 4
52= Raheem Sterling
Liverpool/Manchester City & England 4
52= Jon Walters
Stoke City & Rep Ireland 4
59= Omar Abdulrahman
Al-Ain & UAE 3
59= Jesus Corona
Twente/Porto & Mexico 3
59= Cesc Fabregas
Chelsea & Spain 3
59= Mauro Icardi
Internazionale & Argentina 3
59= Alvaro Morata
Juventus & Spain 3
59= Dimitri Payet
Marseille/West Ham & France 3
59= Jamie Vardy
Leicester City & England 3
59= Eduardo Vargas
QPR/Hoffenheim & Chile 3
67= Moussa Dembele
Tottenham Hotspur & Belgium 2
67= Ricardo Goulart
Guangzhou Evergrande & Brazil 2
67= Joe Hart
Manchester City & England 2
67= Thibaut Courtois
Chelsea & Belgium 2
67= Jorge Valdivia
Palmeiras/Al Wahda & Chile 2
72 Andre Ayew
Marseille/Swansea & Ghana 1
72= Carlos Bacca
Sevilla/Milan & Colombia 1
72= Claudio Bravo
Barcelona & Chile 1
72= Marcelo Diaz
Hamburg & Chile 1
72= Luciano Figueroa
Johor Darul Takzim & Argentina 1
72= Hulk
Zenit & Brazil 1
72= Mats Hummels
Borussia Dortmund & Germany 1
72= Marcelo
Real Madrid & Brazil 1
72= Riyad Mahrez
Leicester City & Algeria 1
72= Mesut Ozil
Arsenal & Germany 1
72= Richie Towell
Dundalk & Rep Ireland 1
72= Willian
Chelsea & Brazil 1
WORLD MANAGER OF THE YEAR
1 Luis Enrique
Barcelona 49 votes
2 Jorge Sampaoli
Chile 15
3 Pep Guardiola
Bayern Munich 10
4 Michael O’Neill
Northern Ireland 4
5 Lars Lagerbeck/Heimir Hallgrimsson
Iceland 3
6 Max Allegri
Juventus 2
X Diego Simeone
Atletico Madrid 2
7= Carlo Ancelotti
Real Madrid 1
7= Pal Dardai
Hungary 1
7= Gianni Di Biaisi
Albania 1
7= Eusebio Di Francesco
Sassuolo 1
7= Eddie Howe
Bournemouth 1
7= Jorge Jesus
Benfica/Sporting Lisbon 1
7= Joachim Low
Germany 1
7= Jose Mourinho
Chelsea 1
7= Luis Felipe Scolari
Guangzhou Evergrande 1
7= Uli Stielike
South Korea 1
7= Unai Emery
Sevilla 1
7= Hein Vanhaezebrouck
Gent 1
WORLD TEAM OF THE YEAR
1 Barcelona 82
2 Chile 9
3 Bayern Munich 3
4 Iceland 2
5= Germany 1
5= Turkey 1
