UEFA.com fans' Team of the Year 2019 revealed
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
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The UEFA.com fans' Team of the Year 2019 includes seven players making their first appearance.
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The UEFA.com fans' Team of the Year 2019 has been revealed, after more than 2 million votes were cast over the course of six weeks.
All users who submitted a team will now be entered into a prize draw to win a VIP trip to the quarter-final draws at UEFA headquarters followed by tickets to a quarter-final tie.
Alisson Becker (Liverpool)
All-time selections: debut
2019
UEFA club competition: 11 appearances (5 clean sheets)
Club World Cup: 2 (1)
Domestic: 30 (13)
Brazil: 10 (7)
Total: 53 (26)
- A UEFA Champions League winner in his first campaign at Anfield, the Brazilian was named Goalkeeper of the Season for the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League campaign and kept 21 clean sheets as the Reds finished Premier League runners-up.
Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool)
All-time selections: debut
2019
UEFA club competition: 12 appearances (5 clean sheets)
Club World Cup: 2 (1)
Domestic: 34 (14)
England: 4 (3)
Total: 52 (23)
- The youngest player to start successive Champions League finals, he was named in the official 2018/19 Squad of the Season and, domestically, set a Premier League record for most assists by a defender in a campaign (12).
Matthijs de Ligt (Ajax/Juventus)
All-time selections: debut
2019
UEFA club competition: 10 appearances (3 clean sheets)
Domestic: 33 (10)
Netherlands: 10 (4)
Total: 53 (17)
- A star in defence as Ajax won a domestic double and reached the Champions League semi-finals, scoring a last-eight winner against Juventus – who he want on to join last summer – to cement his place in the 2018/19 Squad of the Season.
Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
All-time selections: 2
2019
UEFA club competition: 13 appearances (4 clean sheets)
Club World Cup: 1 (1)
Domestic: 38 (15)
Netherlands: 9 (3)
Total: 61 (23)
- The UEFA Men's Player of the Year and Champions League Defender of the Season was man of the match in the final, then finished runner-up for both the Best FIFA Men's Player award and Ballon d'Or.
Andy Robertson (Liverpool)
All-time selections: debut
2019
UEFA club competition: 13 appearances (4 clean sheets)
Club World Cup: 2 (1)
Domestic: 38 (15)
Scotland: 6 (2)
Total: 59 (22)
- Robertson made the 2018/19 Squad of the Season, provided 13 assists in all competitions last term and scored his first Champions League goal in October.
Frenkie de Jong (Ajax/Barcelona)
All-time selections: debut
2019
UEFA club competition: 12 appearances (no goals)
Domestic: 37 (1)
Netherlands: 10 (1)
Total: 59 (2)
- Named Champions League Midfielder of the Season, he won the Dutch double and was named the Eredivisie Player of the Season before a high-profile move from Ajax to Barcelona.
Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City)
All-time selections: 2
2019
UEFA club competition: 7 appearances (no goals)
Domestic: 40 (11)
Belgium: 6 (4)
Total: 53 (15)
- Another selected in the 2018/19 Champions League Squad of the Season, the midfielder won a domestic treble with Manchester City and inspired Belgium to become the first team to qualify for UEFA EURO 2020.
Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
All-time selections: 11
2019
UEFA club competition: 11 appearances (8 goals)
Domestic: 37 (37)
Argentina: 10 (5)
Total: 58 (50)
- The 2018/19 Champions League Forward of the Season, 12-goal top scorer and first player to score in 15 successive seasons in the competition, Messi racked up a half-century of goals for the ninth time in the last ten years.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus)
All-time selections: 14
2019
UEFA club competition: 10 appearances (7 goals)
Domestic: 30 (18)
Portugal: 10 (14)
Total: 50 (39)
- Another stellar 12 months for the evergreen Ronaldo, who added maiden Serie A and UEFA Nations League titles to his already bulging trophy cabinet. Aged 34 but still talismanic for both club and country.
Robert Lewandowski (Bayern)
All-time selections: debut
2019
UEFA club competition: 7 appearances (10 goals)
Domestic: 41 (38)
Poland: 10 (6)
Total: 58 (54)
- The second-highest scorer in the 2018/19 Champions League topped the charts in the Bundesliga (22) and German Cup (7) – both won by Bayern – before becoming the first man to score in the opening 11 games of a Bundesliga campaign. Top scored in this season's Champions League group stage with ten goals.
Sadio Mané (Liverpool)
All-time selections: debut
2019
UEFA club competition: 14 appearances (7 goals)
Club World Cup: 2 (0)
Domestic: 36 (24)
Senegal: 11 (4)
Total: 63 (35)
- The 2018/19 Champions League Squad of the Season member was also the Premier League's joint top scorer – he has since reached 100 appearances and brought up 50 league goals for Liverpool. Named 2019 African Player of the Year.