With Victor Osimhen recently crowned as the CAF 2023 Men’s Player of The Year award, PUNCH Online highlights the full list of all male players honoured with the continent’s most prestigious football award.
See the list below:
- 1992: Abedi Pele (Ghana)
- 1993: Rashidi Yekini (Nigeria)
- 1994: Emmanuel Amunike (Nigeria)
- 1995: George Weah (Liberia)
- 1996: Nwankwo Kanu (Nigeria)
- 1997: Victor Ikpeba (Nigeria)
- 1998: Mustapha Hadji (Morocco)
- 1999: Nwankwo Kanu (Nigeria)
- 2000: Patrick Mboma (Cameroon)
- 2001, 2002: El-Hadji Diouf (Senegal)
- 2003 – 2005: Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon)
- 2006: Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast)
- 2007: Frederic Kanoute (Mali)
- 2008: Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo0
- 2009: Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast)
- 2010: Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon)
- 2011 – 2014: Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast)
- 2015: Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang (Gabon)
- 2016: Riyad Mahrez (Algeria)
- 2017 – 2018: Mohamed Salah (Egypt)
- 2019: Sadio Mane (Senegal)
- 2020: N/A
- 2021: N/A
- 2022: Sadio Mane (Senegal)
- 2023: Victor Osimhen (Nigeria)
