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Final The Best FIFA Men's Player Ranking Revealed

Final The Best FIFA Men's Player Ranking Revealed

15) Andres Iniesta – 0.82%

Cristiano Ronaldo won his fifth FIFA World Player of the Year award on Monday, and FIFA have now revealed that he got almost twice as many votes as Lionel Messi and Neymar combined. Here is the complete ranking.

Click through the gallery above to see the top 15 players in the final The Best FIFA Men's Player 2017 ranking, which includes one African.

The Portuguese equalled Messi's record tally at the awards gala in London on Monday, lifting his fourth FIFA prize in the past five years – and he did so with almost half of the overall votes, receiving 43.15% of the points.

Messi followed in second place with 19.25%, while Neymar (6.97%) just beat Gianluigi Buffon (6.82%) to third spot on the podium.

Sergio Ramos (3.34%) completed the top five, and the Real Madrid captain is followed by his teammates Luka Modric (3.33%), Toni Kroos (2.70%) and Marcelo (2.09%).

Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante is the only Premier League player in the top 10 after picking up 1.35% of the votes, while Luis Suarez (1.19%) followed in 10th position.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (1.10%) was the only African among the 24 final nominees, and he appeared ahead of Paulo Dybala (1.07%) and Eden Hazard (1.03%).

Read: FIFA Announce 2017 World Team Of The Year

Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Andres Iniesta (both 0.82%) followed in 14th and 15th spots, while Robert Lewandowski (0.77%), Antoine Griezmann (0.67%), Dani Carvajal (0.62%), Manuel Neuer (0.58%), Keylor Navas (0.58%), Arturo Vidal (0.51%), Leonardo Bonucci (0.47%), Alexis Sanchez (0.45%), and Harry Kane (0.33%) complete the ranking.

Click through the gallery to see the complete ranking, and let us know if you agree with the final results in the comments section below.

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