Ballon d'Or : African players ranked since 1995

Guess which African players have received votes and were ranked for the Ballon d'Or since 1995 (frist year including non European players)

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Year	Rank	Player	Club	Nationality
1995	1st	George Weah	Paris Saint-Germain / AC Milan	Liberia
	21st	Finidi George	Ajax Amsterdam	Nigeria
	23rd	Anthony Yeboah	Eintracht Frankfurt / Leeds United	Ghana
1996	11th	Nwankwo Kanu	Ajax Amsterdam / Inter Milan	Nigeria
	12th	George Weah	AC Milan	Liberia
1997	32nd	Victor Ikpeba	AS Monaco	Nigeria
1999	22nd	Nwankwo Kanu	Arsenal	Nigeria
2002	21st	Papa Bouba Diop	RC Lens	Senegal
	21st	El-Hadji Diouf	RC Lens / Liverpool	Senegal
2004	15th	Samuel Eto'o	Mallorca / Barcelona	Cameroon
	17th	Didier Drogba	Olympique de Marseille / Chelsea	Côte d'Ivoire
2005	10th	Samuel Eto'o	Barcelona	Cameroon
	14th	Didier Drogba	Chelsea	Côte d'Ivoire
	22nd	Michael Essien	Olympique Lyonnais / Chelsea	Ghana
2006	6th	Samuel Eto'o	Barcelona	Cameroon
	8th	Didier Drogba	Chelsea	Côte d'Ivoire
2007	4th	Didier Drogba	Chelsea	Côte d'Ivoire
	11th	Frédéric Kanouté	Sevilla	Mali
	24th	Michael Essien	Chelsea	Ghana
	30th	Samuel Eto'o	Barcelona	Cameroon
2008	12th	Emmanuel Adebayor	Arsenal	Togo

Year	Rank	Player	Club	Nationality
	17th	Samuel Eto'o	Barcelona	Cameroon
	21st	Didier Drogba	Chelsea	Côte d'Ivoire
2009	5th	Samuel Eto'o	Barcelona / Inter Milan	Cameroon
	9th	Didier Drogba	Chelsea	Côte d'Ivoire
	28th	Yaya Touré	Barcelona	Côte d'Ivoire
2010	9th	Didier Drogba	Chelsea	Côte d'Ivoire
	12th	Samuel Eto'o	Inter Milan	Cameroon
	18th	Asamoah Gyan	Stade Rennais / Sunderland	Ghana
2011	8th	Samuel Eto'o	Inter Milan / Anzhi Makhashkala	Cameroon
2012	8th	Didier Drogba	Chelsea / Galatasaray	Côte d'Ivoire
	12th	Yaya Touré	Manchester City	Côte d'Ivoire
2013	12th	Yaya Touré	Manchester City	Côte d'Ivoire
2014	14th	Yaya Touré	Manchester City	Côte d'Ivoire
2015	12th	Yaya Touré	Manchester City	Côte d'Ivoire
2016	7th	Riyad Mahrez	Leicester City	Algeria
	11th	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Borussia Dortmund	Gabon
2017	21st	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Borussia Dortmund	Gabon
	23rd	Sadio Mané	Liverpool	Senegal
2018	6th	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	Egypt
	22nd	Sadio Mané	Liverpool	Senegal