For the 2010 11 season the uefa club footballer of the year award was replaced by the uefa best player in europe award but the positional awards returned in 2016 17. Internazionale and real madrid are the only teams whose players won all of the available awards in the same season 2009 10 and 2017 18 season respectively. 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.
Liverpool defender virgil van dijk was named uefa men s player of the year beating off both cristiano ronaldo and lionel messi to the award for the first time following last season s. Messi was a part of the three man shortlist earlier released by uefa which included cristiano ronaldo and virgil van dijk along with the argentine. Lionel messi seems set to win another individual award after the results of uefa men s player of the year award for 2018 19 season were leaked online.
Liverpool s virgil van dijk has been named the uefa men s player of the year for 2018 19 seeing off competition from lionel messi and cristiano ronaldo. Megan rapinoe from the united states took the women s prize to cap a historic year for the united states team which had earlier won the women s world cup. Argentine legend lionel messi won the fifa men s player of the year award on monday in fifa the best football awards at la scala opera house in milan.
Van dijk s brilliant performance in the last season helped his club lift the champions league title. Liverpool defender virgil van dijk won the uefa men s player of the year and the defender of the season award for the 2018 19 uefa champions league campaign here on thursday. 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. The dutch international beat off competition from three time uefa men s player of the year cristiano. Liverpool defender virgil van dijk has been named uefa men s player of the year for 2018 19.
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.
