UEFA are all set to announce the final winners of the Men’s and Women’s Player of the Year for 2023 today, Thursday, August 31, check out the awards list of nominees, past winners, and date and time
The crowning ceremony will take place as part of the 2023/24 Champions League group-stage draw ceremony.
UEFA Awards 2023 date, time, nominees list, past winners and live streaming telecast in India where to watch
🚨💣BREAKING : UEFA have Announced The Top Three Nominees for The UEFA Men's Player of the Year ✨⬇️
𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮/𝟮𝟯 𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗦
🇧🇪 Kevin De Bruyne
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi
🇳🇴 Erling Haaland🏆 The #UEFAawards Winners will be announced at the #UCLdraw on The 31 August 2023. 🗓️ pic.twitter.com/yAt5uB6h09
— AZR (@AzrOrganization) August 17, 2023
✨ UEFA Women's Player of the Year ✨
2022/23 Nominees
🇪🇸 Bonmatí
🇦🇺 Kerr
🇪🇸 Carmona🏆 #UEFAawards winners announced at the #UCLdraw, 31 August 2023 pic.twitter.com/oeVVfyJu8S
— UEFA Women’s Champions League (@UWCL) August 25, 2023
Lionel Messi is a strong favorite to win and he will go up against two Manchester City stars Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne.
If Messi wins the award, he will be on level with long-time rival Cristiano Ronaldo.
Meanwhile, the women’s category will see a new winner as Alexia Putellas’ two-year reign comes to an end.
The Champions League group stage draw will take place on Thursday, August 31, 2023 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco during which the awards ceremony will also take place and the draw ceremony is scheduled to start at 6 PM CEST | 4 PM GMT | 5 PM BST | 9:30 PM IST.
The live streaming will be available on UEFA Champions League Website and YouTube Channel and in India the draw will be shown live on Sony Sports TEN 2 SD and Sony Sports TEN 2 HD channels from 9:30 PM IST with the live streaming available on Sony LIV.
The UEFA Awards
The UEFA Awards, which started in 2010 came as a replacement for the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year gala. The award recognise both performances of players for both club and country. Ahead of the award ceremony, the UEFA technical study group selected a shortlist of players based on previous season performances.
The main jury for the final votes consists of coaches of all the clubs that qualified for the group stages of the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League in the 2022/23 campaign. They were joined by coaches of men’s senior national teams under UEFA and a group of journalists selected by European Sports Media (ESM).
Meanwhile, for the women’s category, the jury consist of ESM-selected journalists, national-team managers and coaches from teams who qualified for the Champions League group stages in 2022/23.
UEFA Awards 2023 list of nominees for Men’s and Women’s Player of the Year
Given below is the list of players nominated for the awards:
UEFA Men’s Player of the Year 2023 nominees
Final 3
- Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City & Belgium)
- Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain & Argentina)
- Erling Haaland (Manchester City & Norway)
Shortlist
- 4th Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester City & Germany: 129 points)
- 5th Rodri (Manchester City & Spain: 110 points)
- 6th Kylian Mbappe (PSG & France: 82 points)
- 7th Luka Modric (Real Madrid & Croatia: 33 points)
- 8th Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan & Croatia: 20 points),
- 9th Declan Rice (West Ham & England: 14 points),
- 10th Alexis Mac Allister (Brighton & Argentina: 12 points)
- 11th Jesus Navas (Sevilla & Spain: 6 points)
UEFA Women’s Player of the Year 2023 nominees
Final 3
- Aitana Bonmati (Barcelona & Spain)
- Olga Carmona (Real Madrid & Spain)
- Sam Kerr (Chelsea & Australia)
Shortlist
- 4th Mary Earps (Manchester United & England: 55 points)
- 5th Salma Paralluelo (Barcelona & Spain: 48 points), =5th Alexandra Popp (Wolfsburg & Germany: 48 points)
- 7th Keira Walsh (Barcelona & England: 24), Caroline Graham Hansen (Barcelona & Norway: 11 points)
- 9th Rachel Daly (Aston Villa & England: 8 points)
- 10th Ewa Pajor (Wolfsburg & Poland: 5 points)
- 11th Kadidiatou Diani (PSG & France: 4 points)
UEFA Player of the Year awards most wins
So far, Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo has the most win with three wins in the men’s category. Meanwhile, in the women’s category, Spain’s Alexia Putellas and Denmark’s Pernille Harder has the most with two wins each.
UEFA Awards list of previous winners
Given below is the list of previous winners of the UEFA Men’s Player of the Year award:
| Year | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| 2010/11 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Xavi (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) |
| 2011/12 | Andres Iniesta (Barcelona) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) & Cristiano Ronaldo | — |
| 2012/13 | Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) |
| 2013/14 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich) | Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich) |
| 2014/15 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Luis Suarez (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) |
| 2015/16 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid) | Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) |
| 2016/17 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus) |
| 2017/18 | Luka Modric (Real Madrid) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) |
| 2018/19 | Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) |
| 2019/20 | Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) | Kevin De Bruyne (Man City) | Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich) |
| 2020/21 | Jorginho (Chelsea) | Kevin De Bruyne (Man City) | N’Golo Kante (Chelsea) |
| 2021/22 | Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) | Kevin De Bruyne (Man City) | Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid) |
Given below is the list of previous winners of the UEFA Women’s Player of the Year award
| Year | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| 2012/13 | Nadine Angerer (Frankfurt) | Lena Goessling (Wolfsburg) | Lotta Schelin (Lyon) |
| 2013/14 | Nadine Kessler (Wolfsburg) | Martina Muller (Wolfsburg) | Nilla Fischer (Wolfsburg) |
| 2014/15 | Celia Sasic (Frankfurt) | Amandine Henry (Lyon) | Dzsenifer Marozsan (Frankfurt) |
| 2015/16 | Ada Hegerberg (Lyon) | Amandine Henry (Lyon) | Dzsenifer Marozsan (Frankfurt) |
| 2016/17 | Lieke Martens (Barcelona) | Pernille Harder (Wolfsburg) | Dzsenifer Marozsan (Lyon) |
| 2017/18 | Pernille Harder (Wolfsburg) | Ada Hegerberg (Lyon) | Amandine Henry (Lyon) |
| 2018/19 | Lucy Bronze (Lyon) | Ada Hegerberg (Lyon) | Amandine Henry (Lyon) |
| 2019/20 | Pernille Harder (Wolfsburg) | Wendie Renard (Lyon) | Lucy Bronze (Lyon) |
| 2020/21 | Alexia Putellas (Barcelona) | Jenni Hermoso (Barcelona) | Lieke Martens (Barcelona) |
| 2021/22 | Alexia Putellas (Barcelona) | Beth Mead (Arsenal) | Lena Oberdorf (Wolfsburg) |
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