Onze d'Or

The Onze d'Or (alternative name: Onze Mondial European Footballer of the Year) is an association football award given by French magazine Onze Mondial since 1976. The award honors the best player in Europe, with any player in a European league eligible. Since 1991, there has also been a vote for the best coach of the year.

Onze d'Or
Date	1976; 48 years ago (1976)
Presented by	Onze Mondial
First awarded	1976
Current holder	Erling Haaland (1st award)
Most awards	Lionel Messi (4 awards)

Onze Mondial's readers select their ideal team of the season, Onze de Onze ("Onze's eleven"), and among those players they choose the top three, who receive the Onze d'Or ("Golden Onze"), Onze d'Argent ("Silver Onze"), and Onze de Bronze ("Bronze Onze"), respectively. The awards were based on the previous calendar year until 2009, but moved to a seasonal format beginning with the 2010–11 season.^[1]

Lionel Messi is the only player to have won the award on four occasions (2009–2012, 2018).^[2][3][4] Only two other players have won the Onze d'Or three times: Michel Platini (1983–1985) and Zinedine Zidane (1998, 2000–2001).

Super Onze d'Or

At the 20th anniversary of the magazine in 1995, a Super Onze d'Or was chosen among the previous winners (1976-1995); the top five players selected were:^[1][5]

• 1. Michel Platini (74%)
• 2. Marco van Basten (10%)
• 3. Diego Maradona (5%)
• 4. Roberto Baggio (4%)
• 5. Romário (3%)

Player of the year

Year	Onze d'Or	Onze d'Argent	Onze de Bronze
1976	Robert Rensenbrink	Kevin Keegan	Dominique Rocheteau
1977	Kevin Keegan	Michel Platini	Allan Simonsen
1978	Mario Kempes	Johann Krankl	Robert Rensenbrink
1979	Kevin Keegan (2)	Trevor Francis	Robert Rensenbrink (2)
1980	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Kevin Keegan (2)	Horst Hrubesch
1981	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (2)	Paul Breitner	Jan Ceulemans
1982	Paolo Rossi	Alain Giresse	Falcão
1983	Michel Platini	Falcão	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
1984	Michel Platini (2)	Jean Tigana	Preben Elkjær
1985	Michel Platini (3)	Preben Elkjær	Diego Maradona
1986	Diego Maradona	Manuel Amoros	Gary Lineker
1987	Diego Maradona (2)	Marco van Basten	Jean Tigana
1988	Marco van Basten	Ruud Gullit	Diego Maradona (2)
1989	Marco van Basten (2)	Ruud Gullit (2)	Jean-Pierre Papin
1990	Lothar Matthäus	Salvatore Schillaci	Jean-Pierre Papin (2)
1991	Jean-Pierre Papin	Chris Waddle	Lothar Matthäus
1992	Hristo Stoichkov	Marco van Basten (2)	Jean-Pierre Papin (3)
1993	Roberto Baggio	Alen Bokšić	Romário
1994	Romário	Hristo Stoichkov	Roberto Baggio
1995	George Weah	Roberto Baggio	Paolo Maldini
1996	Eric Cantona	George Weah	Matthias Sammer
1997	Ronaldo	Zinedine Zidane	Marco Simone
1998	Zinedine Zidane	Fabien Barthez	Emmanuel Petit
1999	Rivaldo	David Beckham	Zinedine Zidane
2000	Zinedine Zidane (2)	Luís Figo	Thierry Henry
2001	Zinedine Zidane (3)	Michael Owen	Robert Pires
2002	Ronaldo (2)	Zinedine Zidane (2)	Ronaldinho
2003	Thierry Henry	Zinedine Zidane (3)	David Beckham
2004	Didier Drogba	Thierry Henry	Ronaldinho (2)
2005	Ronaldinho	Steven Gerrard	Thierry Henry (2)
2006	Thierry Henry (2)	Ronaldinho	Franck Ribéry
2007	Kaká	Cristiano Ronaldo	Didier Drogba
2008	Cristiano Ronaldo	Lionel Messi	Franck Ribéry (2)
2009	Lionel Messi	Cristiano Ronaldo (2)	Andrés Iniesta
2010–11	Lionel Messi (2)	Andrés Iniesta	Cristiano Ronaldo
2011–12	Lionel Messi (3)	Cristiano Ronaldo (3)	Radamel Falcao
2014–15^[a]	Antoine Griezmann	Paul Pogba	Alexandre Lacazette
2016–17^[7]	Cristiano Ronaldo (2)	Lionel Messi (2)	Antoine Griezmann
2017–18^[8]	Lionel Messi (4)	Mohamed Salah	Cristiano Ronaldo (2)
2018–19^[9]	Sadio Mané	Lionel Messi (3)	Kylian Mbappé
2020–21^[10]	Karim Benzema	Lionel Messi (4)	Robert Lewandowski
2021–22^[11]	Karim Benzema (2)	Sadio Mané	Robert Lewandowski (2)
2022–23^[12]	Erling Haaland	Karim Benzema	Kylian Mbappé (2)

 

Lionel Messi has won the award a record four times.

 

Zinedine Zidane has won the award three times.

Player	Onze d'Or	Onze d'Argent	Onze de Bronze	Total
Lionel Messi	4	4	0	8
Zinedine Zidane	3	3	1	7
Michel Platini	3	1	0	4
Cristiano Ronaldo	2	3	2	7
Kevin Keegan	2	2	0	4
Marco van Basten	2	2	0	4
Thierry Henry	2	1	2	5
Diego Maradona	2	0	2	4
Karim Benzema	2	1	0	3
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	2	0	1	3
Ronaldo	2	0	0	2
Ronaldinho	1	1	2	4
Roberto Baggio	1	1	1	3
Hristo Stoichkov	1	1	0	2
George Weah	1	1	0	2
Sadio Mané	1	1	0	2
Jean-Pierre Papin	1	0	3	4
Robert Rensenbrink	1	0	2	3
Lothar Matthäus	1	0	1	2
Didier Drogba	1	0	1	2
Antoine Griezmann	1	0	1	2
Erling Haaland	1	0	0	1

Coach of the Year

Year	Coach	Club
1991	Raymond Goethals	Marseille
1992	Johan Cruyff	Barcelona
1993	Raymond Goethals (2)	Marseille
1994	Johan Cruyff (2)	Barcelona
1995	Louis van Gaal	Ajax
1996	Guy Roux	Auxerre
1997	Marcello Lippi	Juventus
1998	Aimé Jacquet	France
1999	Alex Ferguson	Manchester United
2000	Arsène Wenger	Arsenal
2001	Gérard Houllier	Liverpool
2002	Arsène Wenger (2)	Arsenal
2003	Arsène Wenger (3)	Arsenal
2004	Arsène Wenger (4)	Arsenal
2005	José Mourinho	Chelsea
2006	Frank Rijkaard	Barcelona
2007	Alex Ferguson (2)	Manchester United
2008	Alex Ferguson (3)	Manchester United
2009	Pep Guardiola	Barcelona
2010–11	Pep Guardiola (2)	Barcelona
2011–12	Pep Guardiola (3)	Barcelona
2014–15^[a]	Hubert Fournier	Lyon
2016–17^[7]	Zinedine Zidane	Real Madrid
2017–18^[13]	Zinedine Zidane (2)	Real Madrid
2018–19^[9]	Jürgen Klopp	Liverpool
2020–21^[14]	Zinedine Zidane (3)	Real Madrid
2021–22^[15]	Carlo Ancelotti	Real Madrid
2022–23	Carlo Ancelotti (2)	Real Madrid

Wins by coach

 

Former Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger has won the award a record four times.

Coach	Total
Arsène Wenger	4
Alex Ferguson	3
Pep Guardiola	3
Zinedine Zidane	3
Raymond Goethals	2
Johan Cruyff	2
Carlo Ancelotti	2
Louis van Gaal	1
Guy Roux	1
Marcello Lippi	1
Aimé Jacquet	1
Gérard Houllier	1
José Mourinho	1
Frank Rijkaard	1
Hubert Fournier	1
Jürgen Klopp	1

See also

• The Guardian 100 Best Male Footballers in the World
• World Soccer Player of the Year|
• FourFourTwo Player of the Year
• El País King of European Soccer
• ESM Team of the Season

References

Notes

1. Only French nationals were eligible.^[6]

Citations

•  soccer portal

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