2006 FIFA World Player of the Year

The 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year prize was awarded to the Italian Fabio Cannavaro for the first time.^[1] He finished ahead of retired midfielder Zinédine Zidane, who won the Golden Ball at the World Cup and the winner of the 2005 FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldinho in the final round of voting.

The female FIFA soccer player of the year was Marta.^[2]

Rank	Player	Points	Team
1	Fabio Cannavaro	498	Real Madrid Juventus
2	Zinedine Zidane	454	Real Madrid
3	Ronaldinho	380	Barcelona
4	Thierry Henry	317	Arsenal
5	Samuel Eto'o	300	Barcelona
6	Didier Drogba	150	Chelsea
7	Kaká	139	Milan
8	Gianluigi Buffon	118	Juventus
9	Andrea Pirlo	86	Milan
10	Cristiano Ronaldo	69	Manchester United
11	Michael Ballack	53	Chelsea Bayern Munich
12	Steven Gerrard	48	Liverpool
13	Miroslav Klose	46	Werder Bremen
14	Frank Lampard	31	Chelsea
15	Deco	25	Barcelona
16	Luís Figo	20	Internazionale
17	Juan Román Riquelme	16	Villarreal
	Franck Ribéry	16	Marseille
	Wayne Rooney	16	Manchester United
20	Gennaro Gattuso	15	Milan
21	Andriy Shevchenko	14	Chelsea Milan
22	Patrick Vieira	13	Internazionale Juventus
	Michael Essien	13	Chelsea
24	Petr Čech	11	Chelsea
25	Alessandro Nesta	9	Milan
26	Lilian Thuram	8	Barcelona Juventus
27	Jens Lehmann	6	Arsenal
28	Philipp Lahm	3	Bayern Munich
29	Rafael Márquez	2	Barcelona
	Adriano	2	Internazionale
30	Ricardo Quaresma	1	FC Porto

Rank	Player	Club	Points
1	Marta	Umeå IK	475
2	Kristine Lilly		388
3	Renate Lingor	FFC Frankfurt	305
4	Abby Wambach		182
5	Kelly Smith	Arsenal L.F.C.	157
6	Silke Rottenberg	FCR Duisburg FFC Frankfurt	154
7	Han Duan		116
8	Ma Xiaoxu		99
9	Malin Moström	Umeå IK	87
10	Lotta Schelin	Göteborg FC	82
11	Cynthia Uwak	FC United	81
12	Ri Kum-Suk	4.25 SC	64
13	Ingvild Stensland	Kolbotn	54
14	Laura Georges		48
15	Christine Sinclair	Vancouver Whitecaps	39
16	Mónica Ocampo	F.C. Indiana	34
17	Sandrine Soubeyrand	FCF Juvisy	31
18	Laura Kalmari	Djurgårdens IF	24
19	Cheryl Salisbury		12
20	Cathrine Paaske Sørensen	Brøndby IF	11