BBC African Footballer of the Year

BBC African Footballer of the Year
Presented by BBC World Service
First awarded 1992
Currently held by Riyad Mahrez
Television/radio coverage
Network BBC

The BBC African Footballer of the Year (previously known as the BBC African Sports Star of the Year and the BBC African Sports Personality of the Year) is an annual award given to the best African footballer of the year as voted by the BBC radio listeners. Voting is done via SMS and online.

History

Initially a sports award, the inaugural winner was Ghana's Abedi Pele in 1992. The only non-footballers to win the award was track and field athlete Frankie Fredericks in 1993, and long-distance track and road running athlete Haile Gebrselassie in 1998. The Zambia national football team were posthumous winners of the award in 1994, following the plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean a year previous. The award became centred around football from 2001 onwards, Cameroon's Patrick M'Boma was the last person to win it as a sports award.

Nigeria's Nwankwo Kanu and Jay-Jay Okocha, as well as the Ivory Coast's Yaya Touré, are the only players to win the award more than once, with two wins.

Winners

Riyad Mahrez is the current winner for the BBC African Footballer of the Year
YearWinnerClubReference
1992Ghana Abedi PeleFrance Marseille[1]
1993Namibia Frankie Fredericks N/A [1]
1994Zambia Zambia national football team N/A [1]
1995Liberia George WeahItaly Milan[1]
1996Nigeria Emmanuel AmunekePortugal Sporting CP / Spain Barcelona[1]
1997Nigeria Nwankwo KanuItaly Internazionale[1]
1998Ethiopia Haile Gebrselassie N/A [1]
1999Nigeria Nwankwo KanuEngland Arsenal[1]
2000Cameroon Patrick M'BomaItaly Cagliari / Italy Parma[2]
2001Ghana Samuel KuffourGermany Bayern Munich[3]
2002Senegal El Hadji DioufFrance Lens / England Liverpool[4]
2003Nigeria Jay-Jay OkochaEngland Bolton Wanderers[5]
2004Nigeria Jay-Jay OkochaEngland Bolton Wanderers[6]
2005Egypt Mohamed BarakatEgypt Al-Ahly[1]
2006Ghana Michael EssienEngland Chelsea[7]
2007Togo Emmanuel AdebayorEngland Arsenal[8]
2008Egypt Mohamed AboutrikaEgypt Al-Ahly[9]
2009Ivory Coast Didier DrogbaEngland Chelsea[10]
2010Ghana Asamoah GyanEngland Sunderland[11]
2011Ghana André AyewFrance Marseille[12]
2012Zambia Christopher KatongoChina Henan Construction[13]
2013Ivory Coast Yaya TouréEngland Manchester City[14]
2014Algeria Yacine BrahimiSpain Granada CF / Portugal Porto[15]
2015Ivory Coast Yaya TouréEngland Manchester City[16]
2016Algeria Riyad MahrezEngland Leicester City[17]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Edwards, Piers (12 November 2016). "History of the BBC African Footballer of the Year award". BBC Sport. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "Mboma wins top BBC award". BBC Sport. 20 February 2001. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "Kuffour named BBC African Player of the Year". BBC Sport. 4 January 2002. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "Diouf scoops award". BBC Sport. 1 April 2003. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  5. ↑ "Okocha wins BBC award". BBC Sport. 9 January 2004. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  6. ↑ "Okocha retains BBC's Africa award". BBC Sport. 7 January 2005. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  7. ↑ "Essien wins BBC African award". BBC Sport. 5 January 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  8. ↑ "Adebayor wins BBC player award". BBC Sport. 20 February 2001. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  9. ↑ "Aboutrika triumphs in BBC poll". BBC Sport. 16 January 2009. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  10. ↑ "Drogba wins BBC African Footballer of the Year award". BBC Sport. 8 January 2010. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  11. ↑ "Ghana's Asamoah Gyan is named as 2010 BBC winner". BBC Sport. 17 December 2010. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  12. ↑ "Andre 'Dede' Ayew named BBC African Footballer of 2011". BBC Sport. 16 December 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  13. ↑ "Christopher Katongo thanks fans after winning BBC award". BBC Sport. 18 December 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  14. ↑ "Yaya Toure named 2013 BBC African Footballer of the Year". BBC Sport. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  15. ↑ "Brahimi wins BBC African Footballer of the Year award 2014". BBC Sport. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  16. ↑ "Yaya Toure wins BBC African Footballer of the Year award 2015". BBC Sport. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  17. ↑ "Riyad Mahrez wins BBC African Footballer of the Year 2016 award". BBC Sport. 12 December 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
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