Starting with a 30 man shortlist including French players from all over Europe’s ‘Big 5’ leagues, votes were submitted from across the Get Football team to decide the winner of GFFN’s inaugural French Player Of The Year Award. Follow this daily feature series as we name the best 20 French players in the world in 2021. Who should be our first champion?
See our full 30 man shortlist here.
The Final Top 20 Ranking:
20th – Dayot Upamecano (Bayern Munich)
19th – Lucas Hernández (Bayern Munich)
18th – Raphaël Varane (Manchester United)
17th – Amine Gouiri (Nice)
16th – Gaëtan Laborde (Rennes)
15th – Christopher Nkunku (RB Leipzig)
14th – Téji Savanier (Montpellier)
13th – Paul Pogba (Manchester United)
12th – Jonathan Clauss (Lens)
11th – Jules Koundé (Sevilla)
10th – Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid)
9th – Wissam Ben Yedder (Monaco)
8th – Dimitri Payet (Marseille)
7th – Benjamin André (Lille)
6th – Aurélien Tchouaméni (Monaco)
5th – Theo Hernández (AC Milan)
4th – Mike Maignan (AC Milan)
3rd – N’Golo Kanté (Chelsea)
2nd – Kylian Mbappé (PSG)
1st – Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)