FIFA World Player of the Year 1997

L'edizione 1997 del FIFA World Player, 7ª edizione del premio calcistico istituito dalla FIFA, fu vinta dal brasiliano Ronaldo (Barcellona / Inter).

A votare furono 121 commissari tecnici di altrettante Nazionali.

Graduatoria modifica

Pos.	Giocatore	Punti	Squadra
1	Ronaldo	480	Barcellona / Inter
2	Roberto Carlos	65	Real Madrid
3	Dennis Bergkamp	62	Arsenal
	Zinédine Zidane	62	Juventus
5	Raúl	51	Real Madrid
6	Alessandro Del Piero	27	Juventus
7	Davor Šuker	20	Real Madrid
8	Gabriel Batistuta	16	Fiorentina
	Alan Shearer	16	Newcastle
10	Leonardo	14	Paris Saint-Germain / Milan
	Peter Schmeichel	14	Manchester United
12	Youri Djorkaeff	12	Inter
	Marcelo Salas	12	River Plate
14	Andreas Möller	11	Borussia Dortmund
	Matthias Sammer	11	Borussia Dortmund
	George Weah	11	Milan
	Gianfranco Zola	11	Chelsea
18	Predrag Mijatović	10	Real Madrid
19	Faustino Asprilla	9	Newcastle / Parma
20	Luís Figo	8	Barcellona
21	Ryan Giggs	7	Manchester United
	Rivaldo	7	Deportivo La Coruña / Barcellona
	Andrij Ševčenko	7	Dinamo Kiev
24	Paolo Maldini	6	Milan
	Juan Sebastián Verón	6	Sampdoria
26	Denílson	5	San Paolo
	Tore André Flo	5	Brann / Chelsea
	Thomas Häßler	5	Karlsruhe
	Jiří Němec	5	Schalke 04
	Ariel Ortega	5	Valencia
31	Krasimir Balăkov	4	Stoccarda
	Oliver Bierhoff	4	Udinese
	Ronald de Boer	4	Ajax
	Jürgen Klinsmann	4	Bayern Monaco / Sampdoria / Tottenham
	Clarence Seedorf	4	Real Madrid
	Christian Vieri	4	Juventus / Atlético Madrid
37	Slaven Bilić	3	West Ham / Everton
	Ciro Ferrara	3	Juventus
	Mark Fish	3	Lazio / Bolton
	Robbie Fowler	3	Liverpool
	Carlos Gamarra	3	Internacional / Benfica
	Josep Guardiola	3	Barcellona
	Juninho Paulista	3	Middlesbrough / Atlético Madrid
	Brian Laudrup	3	Rangers
	Luis Enrique	3	Barcellona
	Mauricio Montero	3	Alajuelense
	Stefan Reuter	3	Borussia Dortmund
	Romário	3	Valencia / Flamengo
	Teddy Sheringham	3	Tottenham / Manchester United
	Lilian Thuram	3	Parma
	Ian Wright	3	Arsenal
	Iván Zamorano	3	Inter
53	David Beckham	2	Manchester United
	Ali Daei	2	Al-Sadd / Arminia Bielefeld
	Paul Ince	2	Inter / Liverpool
56	Álex Aguinaga	1	Necaxa
	Karim Bagheri	1	Persepolis / Arminia Bielefeld
	Roman Berezovskij	1	Zenit San Pietroburgo
	Zvonimir Boban	1	Milan
	José Luis Chilavert	1	Vélez Sársfield
	Andy Cole	1	Manchester United
	Roberto Di Matteo	1	Chelsea
	Dunga	1	Júbilo Iwata
	Abdullah Ercan	1	Trabzonspor
	Marcelo Gallardo	1	River Plate
	David Ginola	1	Newcastle / Tottenham
	Gheorghe Hagi	1	Galatasaray
	Jörg Heinrich	1	Borussia Dortmund
	Luis Hernández	1	Necaxa / Boca Juniors
	Fernando Hierro	1	Real Madrid
	Jürgen Kohler	1	Borussia Dortmund
	Jari Litmanen	1	Ajax
	Javier Margas	1	Universidad Católica
	Phil Masinga	1	Salernitana / Bari
	Steve McManaman	1	Liverpool
	Alfonso Pérez	1	Betis
	Angelo Peruzzi	1	Juventus
	Toni Polster	1	Colonia
	Raí	1	Paris Saint-Germain
	Hasan Salihamidžić	1	Amburgo
	Anwar Siraj	1	EEPCO
	Hristo Stoičkov	1	Barcellona
	Paulo Wanchope	1	Derby County
	Christian Ziege	1	Bayern Monaco / Milan