The results of this voting were published on France Football # 3011 (23 December 2003).
There were 52 voters, from Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Wales and Yugoslavia.
The columns are: Position Name of Player Name of Club Nationality Total Number of Points 1P = First Places 2P = Second Places 3P = Third Places 4P = Fourth Places 5P = Fifth Places Votes = Number of Voters who nominated this player
Pos Player Country Club Total 1P 2P 3P 4P 5P Votes
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1. Pavel Nedved Czech Republic Juventus 190 27 9 2 6 1 45
2. Thierry Henry France Arsenal 128 8 9 14 4 2 37
3. Paolo Maldini Italy Milan AC 123 7 13 7 4 7 38
4. Andriy Shevchenko Ukraine Milan AC 67 3 8 3 4 3 21
5. Zinedine Zidane France Real Madrid 64 4 1 5 9 7 26
6. Ruud van Nistelrooy Netherlands Manchester United 61 1 4 5 11 3 24
7. Raúl González Spain Real Madrid 32 1 2 4 1 5 13
8. Roberto Carlos da Silva Brazil Real Madrid 27 1 3 3 - 1 8
9. Gianluigi Buffon Italy Juventus 19 - 1 2 3 3 9
10. David Beckham England Real Madrid 17 - 2 1 2 2 7
11. Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima Brazil Real Madrid 11 - - 1 2 4 7
12. Henrik Larsson Sweden Celtic Glasgow 6 - - 2 - - 2
13. Alessandro Del Piero Italy Juventus 4 - - 1 - 1 2
Nélson de Jesus "Dida" Brazil Milan AC 4 - - 1 - 1 2
Roy Makaay Netherlands Bayern Munich 4 - - 1 - 1 2
Alessandro Nesta Italy Milan AC 4 - - - 2 - 2
Anderson Luis de Sousa "Deco" Portugal FC Porto 4 - - - - 4 4
18. Nihat Kahveçi Turkey Real Sociedad 3 - - - 1 1 2
Francesco Totti Italy AS Roma 3 - - - 1 1 2
20. Michael Ballack Germany Bayern Munich 2 - - - 1 - 1
Zlatan Ibrahimovic Sweden Ajax Amsterdam 2 - - - 1 - 1
22. Filippo Inzaghi Italy Juventus 1 - - - - 1 1
Jan Koller Czech Republic Borussia Dortmund 1 - - - - 1 1
Adrian Mutu Romania Chelsea 1 - - - - 1 1
Ronaldo de Assis "Ronaldinho" Brazil FC Barcelona 1 - - - - 1 1
Francesco Toldo Italy Internazionale 1 - - - - 1 1
Elegible players that did not receive any votes:
Pablo Aimar (Arg), Sol Campbell (Eng), Iker Casillas (Spa), Cristian Chivu (Rom),
Giovann Élber (Bra), Samuel Eto’o (Cmr), Luis Figo (Por), Ludovic Giuly (Fra),
Oliver Kahn (Ger), Patrick Kluivert (Ned), Darko Kovacevic (SM), Claude Makélélé (Fra),
Michael Owen (Eng), Pedro Pauleta (Por), Robert Pires (Fra), Michel Salgado (Spa),
Paul Scholes (Eng), Lilian Thuram (Fra), Hatem Trabelsi (Tun), David Trezeguet (Fra),
Patrick Vieira (Fra), Christian Vieri (Ita), Sylvain Wiltord (Fra) and
Gianluca Zambrotta (Ita)
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Last updated: 26 Mar 2005
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