UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award

The UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award (previously known as the UEFA Best Women's Player in Europe Award) is an association football award given to the female footballer that is considered the best player playing for a women's football club in Europe during the previous season. The award was announced in 2013, two years after the creation of the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award, the equivalent award for male footballers.[2]

This article is about the women's award. For the men's award, see UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award.
UEFA Women's Player of the Year
Sponsored byESM[1]
Presented byUEFA
First awarded2013
Current holder Pernille Harder
(2nd award)
Most awards Pernille Harder
(2 awards)
Websiteuefa.com

Nadine Angerer, Lena Goeßling, and Lotta Schelin made the shortlist for the inaugural year, with Nadine Angerer being selected as the winner on 5 September 2013 during the round of 32 and 16 draws for the 2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League.[2][3]

Criteria and voting

According to UEFA, players are selected based on their performances that year in "all competitions, both domestic and international, and at club and national team levels".[2] For the inaugural award, players were nominated by the coaches of the twelve national teams that made the group stage of the UEFA Women's Euro 2013 competition and the coaches of the eight club teams that made the quarterfinals of the 2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League. The nominees were then voted on by eighteen sports journalists that cover women's association football, chosen by trade organization European Sports Media. Each of the voters selected their pick for the top three players, giving their first choice five points, their second choice three points, and their third choice one point. From this initial round of voting, a three player shortlist is selected and the fourth through tenth-place finishers are determined. The winner, runner up, and third-place finisher are selected from the shortlist during a second round of voting, which takes place during the round of 32 and 16 draws for the UEFA Women's Champions League.[4]

Award history

Winners
Year 1st 2nd 3rd
UEFA Best Women's Player in Europe Award
2012–13 Nadine Angerer (Frankfurt) Lena Goeßling (VfL Wolfsburg) Lotta Schelin (Lyon)
2013–14 Nadine Keßler (VfL Wolfsburg) Martina Müller (VfL Wolfsburg) Nilla Fischer (VfL Wolfsburg)
2014–15 Célia Šašić (Frankfurt) Amandine Henry (Lyon) Dzsenifer Marozsán (Frankfurt)
2015–16 Ada Hegerberg (Lyon) Amandine Henry (Lyon) Dzsenifer Marozsán (Frankfurt)
UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award
2016–17 Lieke Martens (Barcelona) Pernille Harder (VfL Wolfsburg) Dzsenifer Marozsán (Lyon)
2017–18 Pernille Harder (VfL Wolfsburg) Ada Hegerberg (Lyon) Amandine Henry (Lyon)
2018–19 Lucy Bronze (Lyon) Ada Hegerberg (Lyon) Amandine Henry (Lyon)
2019–20 Pernille Harder (VfL Wolfsburg) Wendie Renard (Lyon) Lucy Bronze (Lyon)

By player
Player First place Second place Third place
1 Pernille Harder 2 1 0
2 Ada Hegerberg 1 2 0
3 Lucy Bronze 1 0 1
4 Nadine Angerer 1 0 0
Nadine Keßler 1 0 0
Célia Šašić 1 0 0
Lieke Martens 1 0 0
8 Amandine Henry 0 2 2
9 Lena Goeßling 0 1 0
Martina Müller 0 1 0
Wendie Renard 0 1 0
12 Dzsenifer Marozsán 0 0 3
13 Lotta Schelin 0 0 1
Nilla Fischer 0 0 1

By country
Country First place Second place Third place
1  Germany 3 2 3
2  Denmark 2 1 0
3  Norway 1 2 0
4  England 1 0 1
5  Netherlands 1 0 0
6  France 0 3 2
7  Sweden 0 0 2

By club
Club First place Second place Third place
1 VfL Wolfsburg 3 3 1
2 Lyon 2 5 5
3 Frankfurt 2 0 2
4 Barcelona 1 0 0

Finalists

  Winner   Shortlisted

2012–13
Rank Player First round Final round Club
1 Nadine Angerer – 10 Frankfurt
2 Lena Goeßling – 6 VfL Wolfsburg
3 Lotta Schelin – 2 Lyon
4 Nadine Keßler 16 – VfL Wolfsburg
5 Verónica Boquete 11 – Tyresö
6 Caroline Seger 8 – Tyresö
7 Nilla Fischer 6 – Linköping
8 Célia Okoyino da Mbabi 4 – Frankfurt
9 Wendie Renard 3 – Lyon
10 Louisa Nécib 2 – Lyon
Sources:[4][5]

2013–14
Rank Player First round Final round Club
1 Nadine Keßler – 9 VfL Wolfsburg
2 Martina Müller – 3 VfL Wolfsburg
3 Nilla Fischer – 0 VfL Wolfsburg
4 Lena Goeßling 6 – VfL Wolfsburg
5 Verónica Boquete 5 – Tyresö
Lotta Schelin – Lyon
7 Marta 3 – Tyresö FF
Alexandra Popp – VfL Wolfsburg
Caroline Seger – Tyresö FF
10 Christen Press 2 – Tyresö FF
Sources:[6]

2014–15
Rank Player First round Final round Club
1 Célia Šašić – 11 Frankfurt
2 Amandine Henry – 4 Lyon
3 Dzsenifer Marozsán – 3 Frankfurt
4 Verónica Boquete 8 – Frankfurt
Anja Mittag – Rosengård
6 Eugénie Le Sommer 7 – Lyon
7 Ramona Bachmann 6 – Rosengård
8 Wendie Renard 4 – Lyon
9 Caroline Seger 3 – Paris Saint-Germain
10 Nadine Angerer 2 – Portland Thorns
Simone Laudehr – Frankfurt
12 Alexandra Popp 0 – VfL Wolfsburg
Sources:[7]

2015–16
Rank Player First round Final round Club
1 Ada Hegerberg – 13 Lyon
2 Amandine Henry – 4 Lyon
3 Dzsenifer Marozsán – 3 Frankfurt
4 Saki Kumagai 11 – Lyon
5 Wendie Renard 10 – Lyon
6 Louisa Nécib 9 – Lyon
Alexandra Popp – VfL Wolfsburg
8 Camille Abily 6 – Lyon
9 Eugénie Le Sommer 3 – Lyon
10 Amel Majri 2 – Lyon
Source:[8][9]

2016–17
Rank Player First round Final round Club
1 Lieke Martens – 95 Barcelona
2 Pernille Harder – 81 VfL Wolfsburg
3 Dzsenifer Marozsán – 47 Lyon
4 Vivianne Miedema – Bayern Munich
5 Eugénie Le Sommer – Lyon
6 Wendie Renard – Lyon
7 Jackie Groenen – Frankfurt
8 Lucy Bronze – Manchester City
9 Jodie Taylor – Arsenal
10 Shanice van de Sanden – Liverpool
Source:[10][11]

2017–18
Rank Player First round Final round Club
1 Pernille Harder – 106 VfL Wolfsburg
2 Ada Hegerberg – 61 Lyon
3 Amandine Henry – 41 Lyon
4 Dzsenifer Marozsán 32 – Lyon
5 Lucy Bronze 20 – Lyon
6 Lieke Martens 17 – Barcelona
7 Wendie Renard 16 – Lyon
8 Fran Kirby 15 – Chelsea
9 Eugénie Le Sommer 13 – Lyon
10 Shanice van de Sanden 7 – Lyon
Source:[12][13]

2018–19
Rank Player First round Final round Club
1 Lucy Bronze – 88 Lyon
2 Ada Hegerberg – 56 Lyon
3 Amandine Henry – 44 Lyon
4 Vivianne Miedema 31 – Arsenal
5 Ellen White 22 – Birmingham City
6 Pernille Harder 21 – VfL Wolfsburg
7 Dzsenifer Marozsán 12 – Lyon
8 Caroline Graham Hansen 10 – VfL Wolfsburg
9 Lieke Martens 9 – Barcelona
Wendie Renard – Lyon
Source:[14][15]

2019–20
Rank Player First round Final round Club
1 Pernille Harder – 92 VfL Wolfsburg
2 Wendie Renard – 81 Lyon
3 Lucy Bronze – 28 Lyon
4 Vivianne Miedema 26 – Arsenal
5 Delphine Cascarino 24 – Lyon
6 Eugénie Le Sommer 13 – Lyon
7 Ada Hegerberg 11 – Lyon
Amel Majri – Lyon
9 Marie-Antoinette Katoto 8 – Paris Saint-Germain
10 Dzsenifer Marozsán 7 – Lyon
Source:[16][17]

See also

References
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  2. Saffer, Paul (9 July 2013). "Best Women's Player in Europe Award launched". UEFA. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
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  7. "Célia Šašić and Lionel Messi voted UEFA Best Players in Europe 2014/15". UEFA.
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  12. "Women's Player of the Year shortlist: Harder, Hegerberg, Henry". UEFA.
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  14. "Women's Player of the Year shortlist: Bronze, Hegerberg, Henry". UEFA. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  15. "Lucy Bronze named UEFA Women's Player of the Year". UEFA. 29 August 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  16. "UEFA Women's Player of the Year nominees: Bronze, Harder, Renard". UEFA. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
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