Top three nominees revealed for 2022/23 UEFA Men’s Player of the Year award

UEFA has today announced the names of the top three nominees for the 2022/23 UEFA Men’s Player of the Year award. The award winner will be announced at the 2023/24 UEFA Champions League group stage draw ceremony, which will take place on Thursday 31 August at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.

On the same occasion, UEFA will also honour the coach who had the biggest impact during the 2022/23 season with the UEFA Men’s Coach of the Year award.

UEFA Men’s Player of the Year

For the men’s player award, an initial shortlist of players was selected by the UEFA technical study group based on their performance during the 2022/23 season at both club and national team level. The top three nominees were then voted for by a jury composed of the coaches of the clubs which played in the group stages of the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League, together with the coaches of the men’s senior national teams of UEFA’s member associations. A group of journalists selected by the European Sports Media (ESM) were also part of the jury.

Coaches and journalists were asked to select their top three players from the shortlist by allocating them five points, three points and one point respectively. The final result was based on the total number of votes cast by the coaches and journalists. The coaches were not allowed to vote for players from their own team.

The three players who received the most points are, in alphabetical order:

Kevin DE BRUYNE (Belgium – Manchester City FC)

Erling HAALAND (Norway – Manchester City FC)

Lionel MESSI (Argentina – Paris Saint-Germain, now at Inter Miami CF)

The full list of players who received votes is available on UEFA.com.

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UEFA Men’s Coach of the Year

For the men’s coach of the year award, an initial shortlist of coaches was also provided by the UEFA technical study group. Similarly to the player’s award, the top three nominees were voted for by a jury composed of the coaches of the clubs which played in the group stages of the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League, together with the coaches of the men’s national teams of UEFA’s member associations. A group of journalists selected by the European Sports Media (ESM) were also part of the jury.

The three coaches who received the most points are, in alphabetical order:

Josep GUARDIOLA (Spain – Manchester City FC)

Simone INZAGHI (Italy – FC Internazionale Milano)

Luciano SPALLETTI (Italy – SSC Napoli)

The full list of coaches who received votes is available on UEFA.com.

Note to media

The votes for the UEFA Women’s Player and Coach of the Year awards will be cast immediately after the end of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The list of the top three nominees will be announced next week.