FIFA World Player of the year - Ballon d'or combined top 3 list as World best player award

*since Ballon d'or allowed non European player in 1995 :

**Ballon d'or 1995-2006 (judges by only 52 "specialist selected Journalist" exclusive panel recognized affiliated with UEFA by France Football)

*until 2003 = FIFA World player award only voted by national coachs and from 2004 - 2009, and also 2016- current is voted by national coachs and captain
*until 2006 Ballon d'or only voted by European specialist football journalist , but from 2007 - current it has been worldwide journalist across around the world
*calculated on this article has started from 1995 due to before 1995 non European player disallowed in Ballon d'or vote list

1995
FIFA World Player =
1. George Weah 170
2. Paolo Maldini 80
3. Jurgen Klinsmann 58
Ballon d'or - UEFA affilated** =
1. George Weah 144
2. Jurgen Klinsmann 108
3. Jari Litmanen 67

1996
FIFA World Player =
1. Ronaldo Luis 329
2. George Weah 140
3. Alan Shearer 123
Ballon d'or - UEFA affiliated** =
1. Matthias Sammer = 144
2. Ronaldo Luis 143
3. Alan Shearer 107

1997
FIFA World Player =
1. Ronaldo Luis 480
2. Roberto Carlos 85
3. Dennis Bergkamp 62
Ballon d'or - UEFA affiliated** =
1. Ronaldo Luis 222
2. Predrag Mijatovic 68
3. Zinedine Zidane 63

1998
FIFA World Player =
1. Zinedine Zidane 518
2. Ronaldo Luis 164
3. Davor Suker 108
Ballon d'or - UEFA affiliated** =
1. Zinedine Zidane 244
2. Davor Suker 68
3. Ronaldo Luis 66

1999
FIFA World Player =
1. Rivaldo 543
2. David Beckham 194
3. Gabriel Batistuta 79
Ballon d'or - UEFA affiliated** =
1. Rivaldo 219
2. David Beckham 154
3. Andriy Shevchenko 64

2000
FIFA World Player =
1. Zinedine Zidane 370
2. Luis Figo 329
3. Rivaldo 263
Ballon d'or - UEFA affiliated** =
1. Luis Figo 197
2. Zinedine Zidane 181
3. Andriy Shevchenko 85

2001
FIFA World Player =
1. Luis Figo 250
2. David Beckham 238
3. Raul 96
Ballon d'or - UEFA affiliated** =
1. Michael Owen 176
2. Raul 140
3. Oliver Kahn 114

2002
FIFA World Player =
1. Ronaldo Luis 387
2. Oliver Kahn 171
3. Zinedine Zidane 148
Ballon d'or - UEFA affiliated** =
1. Ronaldo 169
2. Roberto Carlos 145
3. Oliver Kahn 110

2003
FIFA World Player =
1. Zinedine Zidane 264
2. Thierry Henry 200
3. Ronaldo Luis 176
Ballon d'or - UEFA affiliated** =
1. Pavel Nedved 190
2. Thierry Henry 128
3. Paolo Maldini 123

2004
FIFA World Player =
1. Ronaldinho 620
2. Deco 552
3. Andriy Shevchenko 253
Ballon d'or - UEFA affiliated** =
1. Andriy Shevchenko 175
2. Deco 139
3. Ronaldinho 133

2005
FIFA World Player =
1. Ronaldinho 956
2. Frank Lampard 306
3. Samuel Eto'o 190
Ballon d'or - UEFA affiliated** =
1. Ronaldinho 225
2. Frank Lampard 148
3. Steven Gerrard 142

2006
FIFA World Player =
1. Fabio Cannavaro 498
2. Zinedine Zidane 454
3. Ronaldinho 380
Ballon d'or - UEFA affiliated** =
1. Fabio Cannavaro 173
2. Gianluigi Buffon 124
3. Thierry Henry 121

From 2007 to 2009 the Ballon d'or award voted from 96 journalist around the world

2007
FIFA World Player =
1. Kaka 1047
2. Lionel Messi 504
3. C. Ronaldo 426
Ballon d'or all globe journalist =
1. Kaka 444
2. C. Ronaldo 277
3. Lionel Messi 255

2008
FIFA World Player =
1. C. Ronaldo 935
2. Lionel Messo 678
3. Fernando Torres 203
Ballon d'or all globe journalist =
1. C. Ronaldo 446
2. Lionel Messi 281
3. Fernando Torres 179

2009
FIFA World Player =
1. Lionel Messi 1073
2. C. Ronaldo 352
3. Xavi 196
Ballon d'or all globe journalist =
1. Lionel Messi 473
2. C. Ronaldo 233
3. Xavi 170

2010* -..... FIFA Ballon d'or (combined Coach & Captain vote list in FIFA World Player method with Journalist system vote in Ballon d'or method in largest number of 170 general journalist in each country and numerous outside from exclusive panel with a term conditions limited by only 1 journalist gather a vote each country and allow to vote player from each nationality from media them)*

Coah & Captain vote =
1. Lionel Messi 639
2. Xavi 386
3. Andres Iniesta 355
Limited media vote =
1. Wesley Sneijder 293
2. Iniesta 291
3. Xavi 229

2011*
Coach & Captain vote =
1. Lionel Messi 30.48
2. C. Ronaldo 14.3
3. Xavi 6.48
Limited media vote =
1. Lionel Messi 17.40
2. C. Ronaldo 7.31
3. Xavi 2.75

2012*
Coach & Captain vote =
1. Lionel Messi 28.04
2. C. Ronaldo 14.92
3. Andres Iniesta 5.99
Limited media vote =
1. Lionel Messi 13.56
2. C. Ronaldo 8.76
3. Andres Iniesta 4.92

2013*
Coach & Captain vote =
1. C. Ronaldo 967
2. Lionel Messi 830
3. Franck Ribery 595
Limited media vote =
1. Franck Ribery 524
2. C. Ronaldo 399
3. Lionel Messi 364

2014*
Coach & Captain votes =
1. C. Ronaldo 1193
2. Lionel Messi 574
3. Manuel Neuer 412
Limited media vote =
1. C. Ronaldo 678
2. Manuel Neuer 299
3. Lionel Messi 173

2015*
Coach & Captain vote =
1. Lionel Messi 1096
2. C. Ronaldo 810
3. Neymar 213
Limited media vote =
1. Lionel Messi 742
2. C. Ronaldo 421
3. Neymar 140

From 2016 FIFA best player and Ballon d'or un merger with Ballon d'or back to original format but still use accumulate votes and system from 170 general journalist around the world

2016*
FIFA best player =
1. C. Ronaldo 34.54
2. Lionel Messi 26.42
3. Antoine Griezmann 7.53
Ballon d'or all globe limited one vote each nations  =
1. C. Ronaldo 745
2. Lionel Messi 316
3. Antoine Griezmann 198

2017*
FIFA best player =
1. C. Ronaldo 43.16
2. Lionel Messi 19.25
3. Neymar 6.97
Ballon d'or all globe limited one vote =
1. C. Ronaldo 946
2. Lionel Messi 670
3. Neymar 361

2018*
FIFA best player =
1. Luka Modric 29.05
2. Cristiano Ronaldo 19.08
3. Mohamed Salah 11.23
Ballon d'or all globe limited one vote =
1. Luka Modric 753
2. Cristiano Ronaldo 478
3. Antoine Griezmann 414