UEFA Awards


Year Awards
Season Awards
Jubilee Awards

Year Awards

  • Team of the Year 2001
  • Team of the Year 2002
  • Team of the Year 2003
  • Team of the Year 2004
  • Team of the Year 2005

  • Note that these teams are selected over the internet by visitors of UEFA's website.

    Team of the Year 2001

    Santiago Cańizares   (Esp) Valencia CF
    
    Cosmin Contra        (Rom) Deportivo Alavés
    Sami Hyypiä          (Fin) Liverpool FC
    Patrik Andersson     (Swe) FC Barcelona
    Bixente Lizarazu     (Fra) FC Bayern München
    
    David Beckham        (Eng) Manchester United FC
    Patrick Vieira       (Fra) Arsenal FC
    Zinedine Zidane      (Fra) Real Madrid CF
    Kily González        (Esp) Valencia CF
      
    Thierry Henry        (Fra) Arsenal FC
    David Trezeguet      (Fra) Juventus FC
    
    Coach: 
    Gérard Houllier      (Fra) Liverpool
    

    Team of the Year 2002

    Rüstu Reçber         (Tur) Fenerbahçe SK
    
    Carles Puyol         (Esp) FC Barcelona
    Alessandro Nesta     (Ita) AC Milan
    Cristian Chivu       (Rom) AFC Ajax
    Roberto Carlos       (Bra) Real Madrid CF
    
    Clarence Seedorf     (Ned) AC Milan
    Michael Ballack      (Ger) FC Bayern München
    Zinedine Zidane      (Fra) Real Madrid CF
    Damien Duff          (Ire) Blackburn Rovers FC
    
    Thierry Henry        (Fra) Arsenal FC
    Ronaldo              (Bra) Real Madrid CF
    
    Coach: 
    Senol Günes          (Tur) Turkey
    

    Team of the Year 2003

    Gianluigi Buffon     (Ita) Juventus FC
    
    Paulo Ferreira       (Por) FC Porto
    Alessandro Nesta     (Ita) AC Milan
    Paolo Maldini        (Ita) AC Milan
    Roberto Carlos       (Bra) Real Madrid CF
    
    Luís Figo            (Por) Real Madrid CF
    David Beckham        (Eng) Real Madrid CF
    Zinedine Zidane      (Fra) Real Madrid CF
    Pavel Nedved         (Cze) Juventus FC
    
    Thierry Henry        (Fra) Arsenal FC
    Ruud van Nistelrooij (Ned) Manchester United FC
    
    Coach: 
    José Mourinho        (Por) FC Porto
    

    Team of the Year 2004

    Gianluigi Buffon     (Ita) Juventus FC
    
    Cafu                 (Bra) AC Milan
    Alessandro Nesta     (Ita) AC Milan
    Ricardo Carvalho     (Por) FC Porto / Chelsea
    Ashley Cole          (Eng) Arsenal FC
    
    Cristiano Ronaldo    (Por) Manchester United FC
    Maniche              (Por) FC Porto
    Ronaldinho           (Bra) FC Barcelona
    Pavel Nedved         (Cze) Juventus FC
    
    Thierry Henry        (Fra) Arsenal FC
    Andriy Shevchenko    (Ukr) AC Milan
    
    Coach:
    José Mourinho        (Por) FC Porto / Chelsea
    

    Team of the Year 2005

    Petr Cech            (Cze) Chelsea
    
    Cafu                 (Bra) AC Milan
    John Terry           (Eng) Chelsea
    Puyol                (Esp) Barcelona
    Paolo Maldini        (Ita) AC Milan
    
    Luís Garcia          (Esp) Liverpool
    Steven Gerrard       (Eng) Liverpool
    Ronaldinho           (Bra) Barcelona
    Pavel Nedved         (Cze) Juventus
    
    Samuel Eto'o         (Cam) Barcelona
    Andriy Shevchenko    (Ukr) AC Milan
    
    Coach:
    José Mourinho        (Por) Chelsea
    


    Season Awards

  • Most Valuable Player
  • Best Goalkeeper
  • Best Defender
  • Best Midfielder
  • Best Forward
  • Best Coach

  • Chosen by UEFA.

    Most Valuable Player

    1997/98	Ronaldo			BRA	Internazionale (Milano)
    1998/99	David Beckham		ENG	Manchester United
    1999/00	Fernando Redondo	ARG	Real Madrid
    2000/01	Stefan Effenberg	GER	Bayern München
    2001/02	Zinédine Zidane		FRA	Real Madrid
    2002/03	Gianluigi Buffon	ITA	Juventus (Torino)
    2003/04	Deco	                POR	FC Porto
    2004/05 Steven Gerrard          ENG     Liverpool 
    2005/06 Ronaldinho              BRA     Barcelona 
    

    Best Goalkeeper

    1997/98	Peter Schmeichel	DEN	Manchester United
    1998/99	Oliver Kahn		GER	Bayern München
    1999/00	Oliver Kahn		GER	Bayern München
    2000/01	Oliver Kahn		GER	Bayern München
    2001/02	Oliver Kahn		GER	Bayern München
    2002/03	Gianluigi Buffon	ITA	Juventus (Torino)
    2003/04	Vitor Baía              POR	FC Porto
    2004/05 Petr Cech               CZE     Chelsea
    2005/06 Jens Lehmann            GER     Arsenal 
    

    Best Defender

    1997/98	Fernando Hierro		SPA	Real Madrid
    1998/99	Jaap Stam		NED	Manchester United
    1999/00	Jaap Stam		NED	Manchester United
    2000/01	Fabián Ayala		ARG	Valencia
    2001/02	Roberto Carlos		BRA	Real Madrid
    2002/03	Roberto Carlos		BRA	Real Madrid
    2003/04	Ricardo Carvalho        POR	FC Porto
    2004/05 John Terry              ENG     Chelsea
    2005/06 Carles Puyol            SPA     Barcelona
    

    Best Midfielder

    1997/98	Zinédine Zidane		FRA	Juventus (Torino)
    1998/99	David Beckham		ENG	Manchester United
    1999/00	Gaizka Mendieta		SPA	Valencia
    2000/01	Gaizka Mendieta		SPA	Lazio Roma
    2001/02	Michaël Ballack		GER	Bayern München
    2002/03	Pavel Nedved		CZE	Juventus (Torino)
    2003/04	Deco	                POR	FC Porto
    2004/05 Kaká                    BRA     Milan
    2005/06 Deco                    POR     Barcelona
    

    Best Forward

    1997/98	Ronaldo			BRA	Internazionale (Milano)
    1998/99	Andriy Shevchenko	UKR	Milan 
    1999/00	Raúl González		SPA	Real Madrid
    2000/01	Raúl González		SPA	Real Madrid
    2001/02	Ruud van Nistelrooij	NED	Manchester United
    2002/03	Raúl González		SPA	Real Madrid
    2003/04	Fernando Morientes      ESP     AS Monaco (loaned from Real Madrid)
    2004/05 Ronaldinho              BRA     Barcelona
    2005/06 Samuel Eto'o            CMR     Barcelona
    

    Coach of the Year

    1997/98	Marcello Lippi		ITA	Juventus (Torino)
    1998/99	Alex Ferguson		SCO	Manchester United
    1999/00	Héctor Raúl Cuper	SPA	Valencia
    2000/01	Ottmar Hitzfeld		GER	Bayern München
    2001/02	Vicente Del Bosque	SPA	Real Madrid
    2002/03	Carlo Ancelotti		ITA	Milan 
            and José Mourinho	POR	FC Porto
    2003/04	José Mourinho	        POR	FC Porto
            and Javier Benitez      ESP     Valencia
    2004/05 Rafael Benítez          ESP     Liverpool
            and Valery Gazzaev      RUS     CSKA Moscow
    2005/06 Frank Rjkaard           NED     Barcelona
            Juande Ramos            ESP     Sevilla
    


    Jubilee Awards

  • The UEFA Jubilee 52 Golden Players
  • The UEFA Jubilee Poll
  • The UEFA Jubilee 52 Golden Players

    At the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 2004, UEFA asked each of its 52 member associations to nominate one player as the single most outstanding player of the period 1954-2003. The following players were selected by each country.

    Country                 Player
    
    Albania                 Panajot Pano 
    Andorra                 Koldo
    Armenia                 Khoren Hovhannisyan 
    Austria                 Herbert Prohaska 
    Azerbaijan              Anatoli Banishevski 
    Belarus                 Sergei Aleinikov 
    Belgium                 Paul Van Himst 
    Bosnia-Herzegovina      Safet Susic 
    Bulgaria                Hristo Stoitchkov 
    Croatia                 Davor Šuker 
    Cyprus                  Sotiris Kaiafas 
    Czech Republic          Josef Masopust
    Denmark                 Michael Laudrup 
    England                 Bobby Moore 
    Estonia                 Mart Poom 
    Faroe Islands           Abraham Lokin (Abraham Hansen) 
    Finland                 Jari Litmanen 
    France                  Just Fontaine 
    Georgia                 Murtaz Khurtsilava 
    Germany                 Fritz Walter 
    Greece                  Vassilis Hatzipanagis
    Hungary                 Ferenc Puskás 
    Iceland                 Asgeir Sigurvinsson 
    Ireland                 Johnny Giles  
    Israel                  Mordechai Shpigler 
    Italy                   Dino Zoff 
    Kazakhstan              Sergey Kvochkin 
    Latvia                  Aleksandrs Starkovs 
    Liechtenstein           Rainer Hasler 
    Lithuania               Arminas Narbekovas 
    Luxembourg              Louis Pilot 
    Macedonia               Darko Pancev 
    Malta                   Carmel Busuttil 
    Moldova                 Pavel Cebanu 
    Netherlands             Johan Cruijff 
    Northern Ireland        Pat Jennings 
    Norway                  Rune Bratseth 
    Poland                  Wlodzimierz Lubanski 
    Portugal                Eusébio  
    Romania                 Gheorghe Hagi 
    Russia                  Lev Yashin
    San Marino              Massimo Bonini  
    Scotland                Denis Law 
    Serbia and Montenegro   Dragan Dzajic 
    Slovakia                Ján Popluhár 
    Slovenia                Brane Oblak 
    Spain                   Alfredo Di Stéfano 
    Sweden                  Henrik Larsson 
    Switzerland             Stéphane Chapuisat 
    Turkey                  Hakan Sükür 
    Ukraine                 Oleh Blokhin 
    Wales                   John Charles 
    

    The UEFA Jubilee Poll

    UEFA named 250 players (50 for each decade of its existence) to be chosen in a Jubilee Poll by the visitors of the UEFA website. In total 134,796 people casted a vote (each notminating 10 players per decade, making the overall number of votes cast 6,739,800).

    
     Nr player                  (country)         votes
    
      1 Zinédine Zidane         (France)         123,582
      2 Franz Beckenbauer       (West Germany)   122,569
      3 Johan Cruijff           (Netherlands)    119,332
      4 Marco van Basten        (Netherlands)    117,987
      5 Dino Zoff               (Italy)          114,529
    
      6 Alfredo Di Stéfano      (Spain)          107,435
      7 Eusébio                 (Portugal)       103,937
      8 Lev Yashin              (Soviet Union)   101,862
      9 Michel Platini          (France)          99,380
     10 Paolo Maldini           (Italy)           95,497
    
     11 Ferenc Puskás           (Hungary/Spain)   94,361
     12 Paolo Rossi             (Italy)           91,194
     13 Ruud Gullit             (Netherlands)     91,001
     14 Bobby Charlton          (England)         89,921
     15 Lothar Matthäus         (West Germany)    86,798
    
     16 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge   (West Germany)    86,649
     17 Franco Baresi           (Italy)           83,800
     18 Gerd Müller             (West Germany)    82,668
     19 George Best             (N. Ireland)      79,036
     20 Kevin Keegan            (England)         78,840
    
     21 Frank Rijkaard          (Netherlands)     71,333
     22 David Beckham           (England)         71,299
     23 Bobby Moore             (England)         70,884
     24 Roberto Baggio          (Italy)           68,239
     25 Michael Laudrup         (Denmark)         67,484
     26 Ronald Koeman           (Netherlands)     66,661
     27 Peter Schmeichel        (Denmark)         66,463
     28 Gheorghe Hagi           (Romania)         62,383
     29 Sepp Maier              (West Germany)    62,375
     30 Oliver Kahn             (Germany)         58,151
    
     31 Luís Figo               (Portugal)        58,078
     32 Raúl González           (Spain)           56,880
     33 Berti Vogts             (West Germany)    55,398
     34 Johan Neeskens          (Netherlands)     54,796
     35 Gianni Rivera           (Italy)           53,874
     36 José Antonio Camacho    (Spain)           53,873
     37 Marco Tardelli          (Italy)           53,732
     38 Just Fontaine           (France)          53,612
     39 Peter Shilton           (England)         50,841
     40 Bernd Schuster          (West Germany)    50,247
        
     41 Raymond Kopa            (France)          49,504
     42 Eric Cantona            (France)          48,436
     43 Stanley Matthews        (England)         47,915
     44 Ruud van Nistelrooij    (Netherlands)     47,398
     45 Valentin Ivanov         (Soviet Union)    46,022
     46 Gary Lineker            (England)         44,787
     47 Alessandro Nesta        (Italy)           44,667
     48 José Emilio Santamaría  (Uruguay/Spain)   43,690
     49 Alessandro Del Piero    (Italy)           43,227
     50 Alessandro Costacurta   (Italy)           42,511
    
     51 Kenny Dalglish          (Scotland)        36,630 
     52 Andriy Shevchenko       (Ukraine)         36,207
     53 Germano                 (Portugal)        35,024
     54 Billy Wright            (England)           not listed
     55 Gordon Banks            (England)         34,651
     56 Zbigniew Boniek         (Poland)          34,046
     57 Francisco Gento         (Spain)           33,871
     58 Ruud Krol               (Netherlands)     32,799
     59 Costa Pereira           (Portugal)        32,781
     60 Thierry Henry           (France)          32,700
    
     61 Duncan Edwards          (England)         32,678
     62 Claudio Gentile         (Italy)           32,533 
     63 Luis Suárez             (Spain)           32,325 
     64 Jürgen Klinsmann        ((West) Germany)  31,277
     65 Andoni Zubizarreta      (Spain)           31,035
     66 Bruno Conti             (Italy)           30,902
     67 Laszló/Ladislao Kubala  (Hungary/Spain)   30,516
     68 Fritz Walter            (West Germany)    29,973
     69 Nils Liedholm           (Sweden)          29,925
     70 Rudi Völler             ((West) Germany)  29,902
    
     71 Igor Netto              (Soviet Union)    29,750
     72 Paul Gascoigne          (England)         29,749
     73 Edgar Davids            (Netherlands)     29,086
     74 Paul Breitner           (West Germany)    29,050
     75 Fernando Hierro         (Spain)           28,612
     76 Jean-Pierre Papin       (France)          28,044
     77 Hristo Stoitchkov       (Bulgaria)        28,006
     78 Dennis Bergkamp         (Netherlands)     27,745
     79 Emilio Butragueńo       (Spain)           27,411
     80 Oleh Blokhin            (Soviet Union)    27,395 
    
     81 Erik Gerets             (Belgium)           not listed
     82 Juan Alberto Schiaffino (Uruguay)           not listed
     83 Rui Costa               (Portugal)        26,838
     84 Sandro Mazzola          (Italy)           26,679
     85 Michel Preud'homme      (Belgium)         26,621
     86 Giancarlo Antognoni     (Italy)           26,268
     87 Hansi Müller            (West Germany)    26,224
     88 Christian Vieri         (Italy)           25,388
     89 Omar Sivori             (Argentina/Italy) 25,277 
     90 Sándor Kocsis           (Hungary)         25,125
    
     91 Juanito                 (Spain)             not listed
     92 Zvonimir Boban          (Croatia)         25,078
     93 Branko Zebec            (Yugoslavia)      24,747
     94 José Juan Altafini      (Brazil)          24,673
     95 Alain Giresse           (France)          24,408
     96 Roberto Bettega         (Italy)           24,400
     97 Rinat Dasaev            (Soviet Union)    24,197
     98 József Bozsik           (Hungary)         24,086
     99 Pirri                   (Spain)           23,968 
    100 Luigi Riva              (Italy)           23,649
    

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