Best FIFA Football Awards 2017 Ceremony Date & Time (Live TV)

Best FIFA Football Awards 2017 Ceremony Date & Time? Where will the Best FIFA Football Awards be held, what time and what date? Well, let’s find out below.

FIFA has announced the all new “The Best FIFA Football Awards” which will replace the FIFA Ballon d’Or. This will be the first ever The Best FIFA Football award ceremony and will take place on 9th January 2017 nothing has really changed it will follow  the similar guidelines to previous FIFA Ballon d’Or awards.

FIFA and France Football Partnership!

The FIFA Ballon d’Or has always been presented by FranceFootball since 1956 but for the last five years FranceFootball and FIFA came together to form the FIFA Ballon d’Or Award ceremony. After five years of partnership the two have parted ways and now independent, this has seen the Ballon d’Or award being announced by France Football on the 12th of December with Cristiano Ronaldo coming out the winner ahead of Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann.

The first ever Best FIFA Football Awards will be held in Zurich, Russia as usual with BBC (UK) broadcasting the ceremony live.

Best FIFA Football Awards 2016 Details

Date: 9 January 2017.

Venue: Zurich, Russia.

Broadcasters: BBC (UK) !

Best FIFA Football Awards 2016 Categories

The first ever Best FIFA Football Awards will have the following categories, well nothing has changed except from the Ballon d’Or award which has already been announced but FIFA has come up with the ”The Best FIFA Mens Player of the Year 2016”.

• The Best Fifa Men’s Player 2016
• The Best Fifa Women’s Player 2016
• The Best Fifa Men’s Coach 2016
• The Best Fifa Women’s Coach 2016
• The Fifa Puskas Award 2016 (for goal of the year)
• The Fifa Fair Play Award 2016
• The Fifa Fan Award 2016
• Fifa FifPro World11

Best FIFA Football Award Guidelines & Nominations

Here are the new guidlines on how the voting system will be conducted when announcing ”The Best Mens Player of the year”

The Best FIFA Men’s Player of the Year Award: FIFA has already announced the shortlist for the awards. The major award will be “Men’s FIFA Best player of the year” for which 10 players have been shortlisted already.

• FIFA has introduced a new voting system where the winners will be decided where 50% of the result will be based on national team coaches and captains votes while other 50% will be decided by the fans via online public ballot & around 200 media representatives.
• Once the voting period is over, FIFA will announced the shortlist of top 3 players and the winner will be announced ceremony on 9th January 2017 in Zurich, Russia

Odds FIFA Mens Player of The Year expected winner 2016

Who will win The Best FIFA Men’s Player ? Well, he are the odds of the expected winner! Take a look!

See the lastest odds here =>

More about Ballon d’Or award

Here is more about the Ballon d’Or award

• List of Ballon D’or winners of all time
• Top 10 Future Ballon D’or winners!
• Players who could win Ballon d’Or!
• Ballon d’Or 2015: Messi becomes five-time winner
• Cristiano Ronaldo wins Ballon d’Or award
• Ballon d’Or shortlist revealed