The results of this voting were published on France Football # 2906 (18 December 2001).
There were 51 voters, from Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Wales and Yugoslavia.
The columns are: Position Name of Player Name of Club Nationality Total Number of Points 1P = First Places 2P = Second Places 3P = Third Places 4P = Fourth Places 5P = Fifth Places Votes = Number of Voters who nominated this player
Pos Player Country Club Total 1P 2P 3P 4P 5P Votes
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1. Michael Owen England Liverpool 176 19 11 8 5 3 46
2. Raúl González Spain Real Madrid 140 5 17 12 5 1 40
3. Oliver Kahn Germany Bayern Munich 114 11 6 8 4 3 32
4. David Beckham England Manchester United 102 9 5 6 6 7 33
5. Francesco Totti Italy AS Roma 57 - 3 6 11 5 25
6. Luis Figo Portugal Real Madrid 56 5 3 3 3 4 18
7. Vitor Barbosa Ferreira "Rivaldo" Brazil FC Barcelona 20 1 1 1 2 4 9
8. Andriy Shevchenko Ukraine Milan AC 18 - - 2 4 4 10
9. Thierry Henry France Arsenal 14 - 2 1 - 3 6
Zinedine Zidane France Real Madrid 14 - 1 1 2 3 7
11. Bixente Lizarazu France Bayern Munich 10 - 1 - 3 - 4
12. David Trezeguet France Juventus 7 - 1 - 1 1 3
13. Stefan Effenberg Germany Bayern Munich 6 1 - - - 1 2
14. Henrik Larsson Sweden Celtic Glasgow 4 - - 1 - 1 2
Alessandro Nesta Italy Milan AC 4 - - 1 - 1 2
16. Juan Sebastián Verón Argentina Manchester United 3 - - 1 - - 1
Hernán Crespo Italy Lazio Roma 3 - - - 1 1 2
18. Giovane Élber Brazil Bayern Munich 2 - - - 1 - 1
Gaizka Mendieta Spain Lazio Roma 2 - - - 1 - 1
Roberto Carlos da Silva Brazil Real Madrid 2 - - - 1 - 1
Damiano Tommasi Italy AS Roma 2 - - - 1 - 1
Sami Hyypia Finland Liverpool 2 - - - - 2 2
Emmanuel Olisadebe Poland Panathinaikos 2 - - - - 2 2
Ebbe Sand Denmark Schalke 04 2 - - - - 2 2
25. Roberto Baggio Italy Brescia 1 - - - - 1 1
Steven Gerrard England Liverpool 1 - - - - 1 1
Manuel Rui Costa Portugal Milan AC 1 - - - - 1 1
Eligible players who did not receive any votes:
Sonny Anderson (Bra), Fabien Barthez (Fra), Gabriel Batistuta (Arg), Gianluigi Buffon (Ita),
Marcos Evangelista "Cafu" (Bra), Vincent Candela (Fra), Eric Carričre (Fra),
Alessandro Del Piero (Ita), Marcel Desailly (Fra), Rio Ferdinand (Eng), Ryan Giggs (Wal),
Jimmy Hasselbaink (Ned), Iván Helguera (Spa), Harry Kewell (Atl), Patrick Kluivert (Ned),
Samuel Kuffour (Gha), Hidetoshi Nakata (Jap), Pavel Nedved (Cze), Pedro Pauleta (Por),
Robert Pires (Fra), Paul Scholes (Eng), Lilian Thuram (Fra) and Patrick Vieira (Fra)
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