| Onze d'Or | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1976; 49 years ago (1976) |
| Presented by | Onze Mondial |
| First award | 1976 |
| Current holder |  Ousmane Dembélé(1st award) |
| Most awards |  Lionel Messi(4 awards) |
TheOnze d'Or (alternative name:Onze Mondial European Footballer of the Year) is an association football award given by French magazineOnze 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 bestcoach of the year.
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 theOnze d'Or ("Golden Onze"),Onze d'Argent ("Silver Onze"), andOnze 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) andZinedine Zidane (1998, 2000–2001).
At the 20th anniversary of the magazine in 1995, aSuper Onze d'Or was chosen among the previous winners (1976–1995); French legendMichel Platini was the winner of the poll. The top five players selected were:[1][5]
| 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 |
| Vinícius Júnior | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ousmane Dembélé | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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