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The Best Awards: FIFA reveals finalists for 2020 honors

FIFA has unveiled the finalists for its marquee honors ahead of this month’s The Best Football Awards show, with a collection of the game’s top players in direct competition for silverware.

After this year’s Ballon d’Or was scrapped due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, FIFA’s annual honors represent the only opportunity for the top men’s and women’s footballers to collect personal hardware in 2020.

The award winners will be announced on Dec. 17.

Here are the finalists for the main individual accolades:

Best Men’s Player

  • Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus and Portugal)
  • Lionel Messi (Barcelona and Argentina)
  • Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich and Poland)

Best Women’s Player

  • Lucy Bronze (Manchester City and England)
  • Pernille Harder (Chelsea and Denmark)
  • Wendie Renard (Lyon and France)

Best Men’s Coach

  • Marcelo Bielsa (Leeds United)
  • Hans-Dieter Flick (Bayern Munich)
  • Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool)

Best Women’s Coach

  • Emma Hayes (Chelsea)
  • Jean-Luc Vasseur (Lyon)
  • Sarina Wiegman (Netherlands)

Best Men’s Goalkeeper

  • Alisson Becker (Liverpool and Brazil)
  • Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich and Germany)
  • Jan Oblak (Atletico Madrid and Slovenia)

Best Women’s Goalkeeper

  • Sarah Bouhaddi (Lyon and France)
  • Christiane Endler (Paris Saint-Germain and Chile)
  • Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Red Stars and United States)

Puskas Award (best goal)

  • Giorgian De Arrascaeta: Flamengo vs. Ceara (Aug. 25, 2019)
  • Heung-Min Son: Tottenham vs. Burnley (Dec. 7, 2019)
  • Luis Suarez: Barcelona vs. Mallorca (Dec. 7, 2019)

Other honors set to be doled out include FIFA’s Fair Play and Fan awards, while both the men’s and women’s FIFPro World XIs will also be unveiled during a virtual ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland.