These accolades are presented alongside the annual uefa men s. Since 2017 uefa has given out five players awards aimed at recognising the top performers in uefa club competitions each season. Soccer football uefa player of the year awards monaco august 24 2017 real madrid s cristiano ronaldo kisses the trophy after winning the uefa men s player of the year award reuters eric.
Liverpool s dutch champions league winning defender virgil van dijk was named uefa s men s player of the year on thursday with england and olympique lyonnais defender lucy bronze picking up the. Virgil van dijk wins men s player of the year after receiving three times as many votes as cristiano ronaldo for his champions league heroics with liverpool. Van dijk beats messi and ronaldo to uefa player of the year the champions league award winners from last season have been announced during the draw for the 2019 20.
Champions league awards 2019. The group assignments for the 2019 2020 uefa champions league finally revealed after a draw was held last august 29th at the grimaldi forum in monaco. Uefa champions league group assignments finally reveal.
Lyon s lucy bronze meanwhile was named as uefa women s player of the year awardee beating her teammates ada hegerberg and amandine henry. In addition to the overall uefa player of the year awards which took into account all competitions both at club and international level uefa also handed out men s 2018 19 champions league awards. The 28 year old centre back received the trophy on stage in monaco during the uefa champions league group stage draw.
Virgil van dijk has won the 2018 19 uefa men s player of the year award. The award created in 2011 by uefa in partnership with european sports media esm group was initially. The uefa men s player of the year award previously known as the uefa best player in europe award is an association football award given to the footballer playing for a football club in europe that is considered the best in the previous season of both club and national team competition.
