Facebook Football Awards

The Facebook Football Awards^[1] is an awards which is only for the English Premier League. Which was announced in April 2015. In 2016, it was announced for various leagues around Europe. It is associated with Facebook, with La Liga awards associated with MARCA.^[2]

Logo created by Facebook for the awards.

Winners in 2015

Awards were issued only to the Premier League in 2015.

Premier League

• Player of the Year: Alexis Sánchez^[3]
• Manager of the Year: Arsène Wenger

Winners in 2016

La Liga

• Player of the Year: Cristiano Ronaldo^[4]
• Best Striker: Cristiano Ronaldo^[4]
• Best Defender: Marcelo^[4]
• Best Midfielder: Luka Modrić^[4]
• Best Goalkeeper: Keylor Navas^[4]
• Best Breakthrough: Cedric Bakambu^[5]
• Best Goal: James Rodríguez^[4]
• Best Manager: Diego Simeone
• Best Supporters: The supporters of Real Madrid^[4]

Premier League

• Player of the Year: Riyad Mahrez^[6]
• Young Player of the Year: Anthony Martial^[7]
• Manager of the Year: Claudio Ranieri
• Team of the Year: Three Leicester City and three Tottenham Hotspur players was included in team of the year. Manchester United were also represented with two players, as well as one apiece from Arsenal, West Ham United and Manchester City^[8]

De Gea

Smalling

Huth

Bellerín

Alderweireld

Payet

Mahrez

Alli

Kane

Vardy

Agüero

Team of the Year 2016^[8]

Position	Player	National team	Club
GK	David de Gea	Spain	Manchester United
DF	Héctor Bellerín	Spain	Arsenal
DF	Chris Smalling	England	Manchester United
DF	Robert Huth	Germany	Leicester City
DF	Toby Alderweireld	Belgium	Tottenham Hotspur
MF	Riyad Mahrez	Algeria	Leicester City
MF	Dele Alli	England	Tottenham Hotspur
MF	Dimitri Payet	France	West Ham
FW	Jamie Vardy	England	Leicester City
FW	Harry Kane	England	Tottenham Hotspur
FW	Agüero	Argentina	Manchester City

Bundesliga

• Player of the Year: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
• New Comer of the Year: Julian Weigl
• Best Manager: Pep Guardiola