While 2016 African Player of the Year, Riyaad Mahrez misses out, 2015 winner Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang makes the nominee list for a fourth consecutive year. Liverpool duo Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah will also rival each other alongside soon to be Liverpool team-mate, Naby Keita.
The 2016 African Women Footballer of the Year Asisat Oshoala is once more shortlisted and will welcome new competition from South Africa’s Thembi Kgatlana. The winners will be decided by votes from the members of the CAF Technical & Development Committee, CAF Media Experts Panel and Independent Media and TV Consultants. Meanwhile, only members of the Caf Referees’ Committee will elect the Referee of the Year. The full list is as follow:
African Player of the Year & Player of the Year
Mohamed Salah (Egypt & Liverpool) Bertrand Traore (Burkina Faso & Olympique Lyon) Denis Onyango (Uganda & Mamelodi Sundowns) Karim El Ahmadi (Morocco & Feyenoord) Keita Balde (Senegal & Monaco) Naby Keita (Guinea & RB Leipzig) Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon & Borrusia Dortmund) Sadio Mane (Senegal & Liverpool) Victor Moses (Nigeria & Chelsea) Vincent Aboubakar (Cameroon & Porto) Yacine Brahimi (Algeria & Porto)
African Player of the Year & Player of the Year (Based in Africa)
Achraf Bencharki (Morocco and Wydad Athletic Club) Ahmed Fathi (Egypt and Al Ahly) Ali Maaloul (Tunisia and Al Ahly) Aristide Bance (Burkina Faso and El Masry) Ben Malango (DR Congo and TP Mazembe) Denis Onyango (Uganda and Mamelodi Sundowns) Jeremy Brockie (New Zealand and Supersport) Mohamed Ounnajem (Morocco and Wydad Athletic Club) Taha Yassine Khenisssi (Tunisia and Esperance) Junior Ajayi (Nigeria and Al Ahly)
Women’s Player of the Year
Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria & Dalian Quanjian) Chrestina Kgatlana (South Africa & UWC Ladies) Gabrielle Aboudi Onguene(Cameroon & CSKA Moscow) Rutendo Makore (Zimbabwe & Black Rhinos) Tabitha Chawinga (Malawi & Kvarnsvedens) Women’s National Team of the Year
Ghana U-20 Kenya Nigeria U-20 South Africa Zimbabwe Coach of the Year
Gernot Rohr (Nigeria) Hector Cuper (Egypt) Hugo Broos (Cameroon) L’Hussein Amoutta (Wydad Athletic Club) Mihayo Kazembe (TP Mazembe) National Team of the Year
Cameroon Egypt Mali U-17 Nigeria Zambia U-20 Club of the Year
Al Ahly Mbabane Swallows SuperSport United TP Mazembe Wydad Athletic Club Youth Player of the Year
Eric Ayiah (Ghana & Charity Stars) Krepin Diatta (Senegal &Sarpsborg) Luther Singh (South Africa & Braga) Patson Daka (Zambia & Liefering) Salam Giddou (Mali & Guidars) Referee of the Year
Bamlak Tessema (Ethiopia) Ghead Grisha (Egypt) Janny Sikazwe (Zambia) Malang Diedhiou (Senegal) Mehdi Abid Charef (Algeria) Papa Bakary Gassama (Gambia)
