TheAIC Serie A Footballer of the Year (Italian:Migliore calciatore assoluto AIC) is a yearly award organized by theItalian Footballers' Association (AIC) given to thefootballer who has been considered to have performed the best over the previousSerie A season. The award is part of theGran Galà del Calcio (formerly known as the "Oscar del Calcio AIC") awards event.[1] Juventus players have won the most awards with twelve.Zlatan Ibrahimović andAndrea Pirlo have won the award the most times (3), with Pirlo's wins coming consecutively.
Zinedine Zidane won the award withJuventus in the2000–01 season, becoming the first Frenchman to do so.[6] Thefollowing season, compatriotDavid Trezeguet won the award with the same club, the first time a player won the award while his team won the league in the same season.[7][8] The seventh edition of the award, in the2002–03 season, was the first and only time that two players won the award jointly: Czech RepublicmidfielderPavel Nedvěd, who won the league with Juventus,[9] and Francesco Totti, who became the first player to win the award for a second time after scoring the most goals for his club that season.[10]Kaká won the award thefollowing season, his debut season forAC Milan.[11] In the2004–05 season,Alberto Gilardino won the award after scoring 24 goals, including the winning goal in aplayoff that kept his clubParma from being relegated toSerie B.[12]
Zlatan Ibrahimović won the award for the next two seasons with Inter, as the club also won the league on each occasion.[19][20][21][22] In2008–09, the second season he won the award, he became the first player to win the award after winning theCapocannoniere award for the league's top scorer.[23] Before the2009–10 season, Ibrahimović left Inter forBarcelona, replaced byDiego Milito who won the award that season, scoring the second-most goals as Inter won the league again.[24][25][26] Ibrahimović was loaned to Milan for thefollowing season, where he won the award for a third time as Milan won the league.[27][28]
Andrea Pirlo then equalled Ibrahimović's record of wins, winning the award for the next three seasons with Juventus, his first three seasons with the club after signing from Milan in the2011–12 season, as the club also won the league on each occasion.[29][30][31] In his debut season, Pirlo created over 100 chances and completed 2643 passes that season, with an 87 per cent pass completion rate, completing 500 more passes than any other player in Serie A; the only player in the world to have completed more passes than him that season wasXavi.[32][33] TeammateCarlos Tevez then won the award in the2014–15 season, his last season with the club, and one where he was the club's top scorer with 20 goals.[34][35] In the2015–16 season, another Juventus player won the award,Leonardo Bonucci, becoming only the second defender to do so.[36] Thefollowing season, Juventus teammateGianluigi Buffon became the first goalkeeper to win the award.[37] As Juventus secured their sixth consecutive Serie A title, establishing an all-time record of successive triumphs in the competition, Buffon equalledVirginio Rosetta,Giovanni Ferrari, and Giuseppe Furino as the player with the most Italian league title victories (8).[38][39][40]
In the2017–18 season, Inter playerMauro Icardi won the award, ending the six-year winning streak of Juventus players.[41] He was the joint top scorer in the league alongside Lazio'sCiro Immobile (29),[42] despite Juventus winning the league again.[43] Juventus playerCristiano Ronaldo would then win the award for the next two seasons. In the2018–19 season, he became thehighest ever transfer for an Italian club withhis €100 million transfer fromReal Madrid to Juventus.[44][45] In2019–20, the second season he won the award, he scored the second-most goals in the league, while being the top scorer for his club once again (31).[46][47] In the2020–21 season,Romelu Lukaku won the award after winning theScudetto with Inter, ending a nine-year long streak by Juventus.[48][49] In the2021–22 season, Portuguese strikerRafael Leão won the award after contributing to AC Milan's first Italian Serie A title in 11 years.[50][51] In the subsequent2022–23 season, Nigerian strikerVictor Osimhen claimed the award for his contributions to Napoli's first Italian Serie A title in 33 years, emerging also as the league's top scorer during the season.[52][53][54] In the2023–24 season, Argentine strikerLautaro Martínez won the award after contributing to Inter's twentieth Italian Serie A title, emerging also as the league's top scorer during the season.[55][56]
Roberto Mancini won the inaugural award in 1997.Zlatan Ibrahimović has the most awards won (jointly), with three awards total; he is also the only player to win with two different teams.Andrea Pirlo has the most awards won, with three awards total (jointly); he is also the only player to win the award three consecutive times.Gianluigi Buffon is the only goalkeeper to have ever won the award (2017).
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