AWARDS
Erling Haaland and Aitana Bonmatí are the frontrunners to win the 2023 men’s and women’s world-player-of-the-year prizes, respectively, at the latest edition of The Best FIFA Football Awards.
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The eighth instalment of FIFA’s annual gala, the event will take place in London on Monday 15 January 2024. It is scheduled to begin at 2:30pm ET/11:30am PT.
TV viewers in the United States will be able to watch The Best FIFA Football Awards on FOX Sports 2.
If you don’t have cable, you can stream FOX’s coverage of the ceremony on fuboTV, which offers users a free trial.
Another option is to watch live on FIFA’s streaming service, FIFA+, while you can also follow live-text commentary of the gala right here at AS USA.
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The winner of the women’s Ballon d’Or in October, Barcelona’s Bonmatí is joined among the three Best Women’s Player finalists by Spain colleague Jenni Hermoso, with whom she starred in Spain’s Women’s World Cup win in July and August. Real Madrid and Colombia’s Linda Caicedo, who also excelled in Australia and New Zealand, completes the trio vying for the 2023 award.
Meanwhile, Manchester City and Norway striker Haaland is competing for Best Men’s Player against Inter Miami and Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Paris Saint-Germain and France’s Kylian Mbappé.
The Best FIFA Women’s Player will be awarded based on performances between 1 August 2022 and 20 August 2023, the date of the Women’s World Cup final.
The qualifying period for The Best FIFA Men’s Player ran from 19 December 2022 – the day after the men’s World Cup final – and 20 August 2023.
This explains why Messi is expected to lose out to Haaland, despite beating the Norwegian to the 2023 Ballon d’Or three months ago. While that award took the veteran’s key role in Argentina’s World Cup triumph into account, the tournament in Qatar fell into the eligibility period for 2022′s FIFA Best Men’s Player gong, which went to Messi.
WOMEN'S FOOTBALL
IFFHS WORLD TEAM
In addition to the two Best FIFA Player prizes, the following accolades will be handed out in the UK capital: The Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper, The Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper, The Best FIFA Men’s Coach, The Best FIFA Women’s Coach, The FIFA Puskás Award, The FIFA Fair Play Award and The FIFA Fan Award.
The men’s and women’s FIFA FIFPRO World 11s will also be announced.
About the author
William Allen
British journalist and translator who joined Diario AS in 2013. Focuses on soccer – chiefly the Premier League, LaLiga, the Champions League, the Liga MX and MLS. On occasion, also covers American sports, general news and entertainment. Fascinated by the language of sport – particularly the under-appreciated art of translating cliché-speak.
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