Egypt international Mohamed Salah is in line to retain his African Player of the Year award after being named on a three-man shortlist along with Liverpool team-mate Sadio Mane of Senegal and Arsenal’s Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Salah, who was named the BBC’s African Footballer of the Year for a second time in December, won the Confederation of African Football (Caf) award last year.
It was an identical shortlist with Salah emerging as the winner.
Uganda Cranes goalkeeper and captain Denis Masinde Onyango, last year’s winner of the African Player of the Year –based in Africa, did not make the list.
The women’s shortlist has also been revealed with Nigeria duo Asisat Oshoala and Francisca Ordega, and South Africa’s Thembi Kgatlana making the final three.
Oshoala has won the last two Caf awards and three in total, and along with Ordega helped the Super Falcons win the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in 2018.
Kgatlana was the Most Valuable Player and top-scorer at the Nations Cup as Banyana Banyana narrowly lost out to Nigeria on penalties in the final.
Men’s African Player of the Year:
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon)
Sadio Mane (Senegal)
Mohamed Salah (Egypt)
Women’s African Player of the Year:
Thembi Kgatlana (South Africa)
Francisca Ordega (Nigeria)
Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria)
Youth Player of the Year:
Achraf Hakimi (Morocco & Borussia Dortmunmd)
Franck Kessie (Cote d’Ivoire & AC Milan)
Wilfred Ndidi (Nigeria & Leicester City)
Men’s Coach of the Year:
Aliou Cisse (Senegal)
Herve Renard (Morocco)
Moine Chaabani (Esperance)
Women’s Coach of the Year:
Desiree Ellis (South Africa)
Joseph Brian Ndoko (Cameroon)
Thomas Dennerby (Nigeria)
Men’s National Team of the Year:
Madagascar, Mauritania and Uganda
Women’s National Team of the Year:
Cameroon, Nigeria, South Africa
• others – best Goal of the Year, the Africa Finest XI, Ydnekatchew Tessema Trophy for the Federation President of the Year and Platinum Award.
The winner will be unveiled at the Awards Gala on 8 January 2019 in Dakar, Senegal.
