UEFA Club Football Awards
In recognition of the best players in the UEFA Champions League each year, UEFA gives out several awards to the most outstanding performers of the European club football season. The awards are presented in August each year at a special gala in Monaco; previously, the ceremony would coincide with the UEFA Super Cup, but since the Super Cup was moved to early August in 2014, the UEFA awards ceremony has been combined with the UEFA Champions League group stage draw. Internazionale and Real Madrid are the only teams whose players won all of the available awards in the same season.
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.
Award categories
UEFA Club Footballer of the Year
Best Goalkeeper
From 1998–2009 the Best European Goalkeeper was awarded to the same goalkeepers that won this award., who won this award four times consecutively while with Bayern Munich.
By country
By club
Best Defender
By country
By club
Best Midfielder
By country
By club
Best Forward
By country
By club
Coach(es) of the Year
Year | Coach | Club | ||
1997–98* | Marcello Lippi | Juventus | ||
1998–99 | Alex Ferguson | Manchester United | ||
1999–2000 | Héctor Cúper | Valencia | ||
2000–01 | Ottmar Hitzfeld | Bayern Munich | ||
2001–02 | Vicente del Bosque | Real Madrid | ||
2002–03 | Carlo Ancelotti José Mourinho | Milan Porto | ||
2003–04 | José Mourinho Rafael Benítez | Porto Valencia | ||
2004–05 | Rafael Benítez Valery Gazzaev | Liverpool CSKA Moscow | ||
2005–06* | Frank Rijkaard Juande Ramos | Barcelona Sevilla |
*UEFA stopped giving the award for Coach of the Year after the 2005–06 season
By country
By club
Best Goal of the Season
Season | Name | Club |
2014–15 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona |
2015–16 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona |
2016–17 | Mario Mandžukić | Juventus |
2017–18 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid |
2018–19 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona |