Stanley Matthews (1956)
Club: Blackpool
Nationality: England
Alfredo Di Stéfano (1957,1959)
Club:Real Madrid
Nationality: Spain, Argentina
Raymond Kopa (1958)
Club: Real Madrid
Nationality: France
Luis Suarez (1960)
Club: Barcelona
Nationality: Spain
Omar Sivori (1961)
Club: Juventus
Nationality: Italy
Josef Masopust (1962)
Club: Dukla Prague
Nationality: Czech
Lev Yashin (1963)
Club: Moscow Dynamo
Nationality: CCCP
Denis Law (1964)
Club: Manchester United
Eusebio (1965)
Club: Benfica
Nationality: Portugal
Bobby Charlton (1966)
Florian Albert (1967)
Club: Ferencvaros TC
Nationality: Hungary
George Best (1968)
Nationality: North Ireland
Gianni Rivera (1969)
Club: AC Milan
Gerd Muller (1970)
Club: Bayern Munchen
Nationality: Deutschland
Johan Cruyff (1971)
Club: Ajax
Nationality: Netherlands
Franz Beckenbauer (1972, 1976)
Johan Cruyff (1973, 1974)
Oleg Blochin (1975)
Club: Kyiv Dynamo
Allan Simonsen (1977)
Club: Borussia
Monchengladb.
Nationality: Denmark
Kevin Keegan (1978, 1979)
Club: Hamburg
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1980,1981)
Paolo Rossi (1982)
Michel Platini (1983, 1984, 1985)
Igor Belanov (1986)
Ruud Gullit (1987)
Marco van Basten (1988, 1989, 1992)
Lothar Matthaus (1990)
Club: Internazionale
Jean-Pierre Papin (1991)
Club: Marseille
Roberto Baggio (1993)
Hristo Stoichkov (1994)
Nationality: Bulgaria
George Weah (1995)
Nationality: Liberia
Matthias Sammer (1996)
Club: Borussia Dortmund
Ronaldo (1997)
Nationality: Brazil
Zinedine Zidane (1998)
Rivaldo (1999)
Luis Figo (2000)
Michael Owen (2001)
Club: Liverpool
Ronaldo (2002)
Pavel Nedved (2003)
Nationality: Czech Republic
Andriy Shevchenko (2004)
Nationality: Ukraine
Ronaldinho (2005)
Fabio Cannavaro (2006)
Ricardo Kaká (2007)
Cristiano Ronaldo (2008)
Lionel Messi (2009)
Nationality: Argentina
Lionel Messi (2010)
Lionel Messi (2011)
Lionel Messi (2012)
Cristiano Ronaldo (2013)
Cristiano Ronaldo (2014)
Lionel Messi (2015)
Cristiano Ronaldo (2016)
Cristiano Ronaldo (2017)
Luka Modrić (2018)
Lionel Messi (2019)
Lionel Messi (2021)
Club: Paris Saint-German
Karim Benzema (2022)
Lionel Messi (2023)
Club: Miami Inter
Rodrigo Hernández (2024)