2006 FIFA World Player of the Year

The 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year prize was awarded to the Italian Fabio Cannavaro for the first time. He finished ahead of the retired Midfielder Zinedine Zidane, who won the Golden Ball at the World Cup and the winner of the last FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldinho in the final round of voting.

Results

Men

Rank	Player	Points	Team
1	Fabio Cannavaro	498	Real Madrid Juventus F.C.
2	Zinedine Zidane	454	Real Madrid
3	Ronaldinho	380	Barcelona
4	Thierry Henry	317	Arsenal
5	Samuel Eto'o	300	Barcelona
6	Didier Drogba	150	Chelsea
7	Kaká	139	AC Milan
8	Gianluigi Buffon	118	Juventus
9	Zlatan Ibrahimovic	86	Inter Milan
10	Cristiano Ronaldo	69	Manchester United
11	Michael Ballack	53	Chelsea Bayern Munich
12	Steven Gerrard	48	Liverpool
13	Miroslav Klose	46	Werder Bremen
14	Frank Lampard	31	Chelsea
15	Deco	25	Barcelona
16	Luís Figo	20	Internazionale
17	Juan Román Riquelme	16	Villarreal
17	Franck Ribéry	16	Marseille
17	Wayne Rooney	16	Manchester United
20	Gennaro Gattuso	15	AC Milan
21	Andriy Shevchenko	14	Chelsea AC Milan
22	Patrick Vieira	13	Internazionale Juventus
22	Michael Essien	13	Chelsea
24	Petr Čech	11	Chelsea
25	Alessandro Nesta	9	AC Milan
26	Lilian Thuram	8	Barcelona Juventus
27	Jens Lehmann	6	Arsenal
28	Philipp Lahm	3	Bayern Munich
29	Rafael Márquez	2	FC Barcelona
29	Adriano	2	Internazionale

Women

Rank	Player	Points
1	Marta	475
2	Kristine Lilly	388
3	Renate Lingor	305
4	Abby Wambach	182
5	Kelly Smith	157
6	Silke Rottenberg	154
7	Han Duan	116
8	Ma Xiaoxu	99
9	Malin Mostrom	87
10	Lotta Schelin	82
11	Cynthia Uwak	81
12	Ri Kum-Suk	64
13	Ingvild Stensland	54
14	Laura Georges	48
15	Christine Sinclair	39
16	Monica Ocampo	34
17	Sandrine Soubeyrand	31
18	Laura Kalmari	24
19	Cheryl Salisbury	12
20	Cathrine Paaske Sørensen	11