•CAF Men’s Player of The Year winners
Nigeria’s Victor Osimhen yesterday Monday, December 11, won the CAF 2023 Men’s Player of The Year award.
The Napoli striker beat Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi, Senegal’s Sadio Mane, and Egypt’s Mohamed Salah, among others.
He had a thunderous form in the last 2022/2023 football season, reports The Nation.
He helped his Italian club side, Napoli, win their third Scudetto 33 years after the era of the late Argentinian legend, Diego Maradona.
Here is a list of CAF Men’s Player of The Year winners since 1992
1. 2023: Victor Osimhen (Nigeria)
2. 2022: Sadio Mane (Senegal)
3. 2019: Sadio Mane (Senegal)
4. 2018: Mohamed (Salah Egypt)
5. 2017: Mohamed (Salah Egypt)
6. 2016: Riyad Mahrez (Algeria)
7. 2015: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon)
8. 2014: Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast)
9. 2013: Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast)
10. 2012: Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast)
11. 2011: Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast)
12. 2010: Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon)
13. 2009: Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast)
14. 2008: Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo)
15. 2007: Frederic Kanoute (Mali)
16. 2006: Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast)
17. 2005: Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon)
18. 2004: Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon)
19. 2003: Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon)
20. 2002: El Hadji Diouf (Senegal)
21. 2001: El Hadji Diouf (Senegal)
22. 2000: Patrick M’Boma (Cameroon)
23. 1999: Nwankwo Kanu (Nigeria)
24. 1998: Mustapha Hadji (Morocco)
25. 1997: Victor Ikpeba (Nigeria)
26. 1996: Nwankwo Kanu (Nigeria)
27. 1995: George Weah (Liberia)
28. 1994: Emmanuel Amunike (Nigeria)
29. 1993: Rashidi Yekini (Nigeria)
30. 1992: Abedi Pele (Ghana)
