FIFA World Player of the Year
Player 1st 2nd 3rd
Marta 5 ( 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 ) 4 ( 2005 , 2011 , 2012 , 2014 ) 2 ( 2004 , 2013 )
Birgit Prinz 3 ( 2003 , 2004 , 2005 ) 5 ( 2002 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 ) -
Mia Hamm 2 ( 2001 , 2002 ) 2 ( 2003 , 2004 ) -
Abby Wambach 1 ( 2012 ) 1 ( 2013 ) 2 ( 2011 , 2014 )
Homare Sawa 1 ( 2011 ) - -
Nadine Angerer 1 ( 2013 ) - -
Nadine Keßler 1 ( 2014 ) - -
Carli Lloyd 1 ( 2015 ) - -
FIFA Women 's World Player of the Year -- Wins by player
The FIFA World Player of the Year was an association football award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA, between 1991 and 2015. Coaches and captains of international teams and media representatives selected the player they deem to have performed the best in the previous calendar year. Originally a single award for the world's best men's player, parallels awards for men and women were awarded from 2001-2009. The men's award was subsumed into the FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2010 while the women's award remained until 2015. After 2015 both men's and women's awards became part of The Best FIFA Football Awards. During the men's era, Brazilian players won 8 out of 19 years, compared to three wins - the second most - for French players. In terms of individual players, Brazil again led with five, followed by Italy and Portugal with two each. The youngest winner was Ronaldo, who won at 20 years old in 1996, and the oldest winner was Fabio Cannavaro, who won aged 33 in 2006. Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane each won the award three times, while Ronaldo and Ronaldinho were the only players to win in successive years. From 2010 to 2015, the equivalent men's award was the FIFA Ballon d'Or, following a merging of the FIFA World Player of the Year and the France Football Ballon d'Or awards. Since 2016, the awards have been replaced by The Best FIFA Men's Player and The Best FIFA Women's Player awards. Eight women's footballers - three Germans, three Americans, one Brazilian, and one Japanese - have won the award.