The winner will be named along with the uefa women s player of the year and uefa champions league positional award winners during the group stage draw in monaco on thursday 29 august. Lionel messi cristiano ronaldo and virgil van dijk have been nominated for the 2018 19 uefa men s player of the year award. After the draw uefa will also crown the 2019 20 men s player of the year poty.
The 2018 19 ucl group stage draw ceremony begins at 9 30 pm on thursday night. Uefa champions league draw results. Virgil van dijk takes uefa poty and best defender award i need to thank my teammates without them i would not have achieved what i have achieved van dijk told bt sport liverpool centre back virgil van dijk won the uefa men s player of the year award on thursday edging out lionel messi and cristiano ronaldo while lucy bronze took the women.
Uefa works to promote protect and develop european football. Posted by sam wilkins. Uefa reveal poty voting results van dijk gets six times as many points as liverpool teammates messi gets more than double ronaldo liverpool fc.
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.
