Fifa Best Awards 2022: England Lionesses and Lionel Messi lead nominees

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Beth Mead, Leah Williamson, Keira Walsh and Lionel MessiThree of England's Euro 2022 winners - Beth Mead, Leah Williamson and Keira Walsh - diagnostic successful the women's shortlist

England trio Leah Williamson, Beth Mead and Keira Walsh articulation Argentina's World Cup-winning skipper Lionel Messi arsenic nominees for the 2022 Fifa Best Awards.

Borussia Dortmund's England midfielder Jude Bellingham is besides named connected the men's shortlist, with Real Madrid brace Luka Modric and Karim Benzema.

Chelsea's Sam Kerr and Jessie Fleming are nominated for the women's award, arsenic is past year's victor Alexia Putellas.

Sarina Wiegman, Emma Hayes and Pep Guardiola are up for champion coach.

Arsenal guardant Mead's information comes successful a twelvemonth successful which she was named subordinate of the tourney astatine Euro 2022, shortlisted for the Ballon d'Or and won BBC Sport's Personality of the Year.

Lionesses manager Wiegman, who led the squad to their archetypal large tourney trophy astatine Euro 2022, is joined connected the women's manager database by Canada's English-born manager Beverly Priestman, arsenic good arsenic Chelsea's Hayes.

The Chelsea coach, who won the Fifa Best grant past year, became the archetypal manager to usher a broadside to 3 consecutive WSL titles successful May.

Real Madrid's Carlo Ancelotti, France's Didier Deschamps and Argentina's World Cup-winning manager Lionel Scaloni are nominated for champion men's coach.

Morocco's Walid Regragui besides features connected the shortlist aft his broadside became the archetypal African federation to scope a World Cup semi-final.

Manchester City's Erling Haaland, Kevin de Bruyne and Julian Alvarez are each nominated for champion men's player, arsenic is Liverpool's Mohamed Salah.

Liverpool's Alisson Becker, Manchester City's Ederson and Aston Villa and Argentina's Emiliano Martinez are up for the champion men's goalkeeper award.

England and Manchester United fig 1 Mary Earps is connected the women's shortlist, alongside Chelsea's Ann-Katrin Berger.

Alessia Russo's backheeled decorativeness successful England's Euro 2022 semi-final triumph implicit Sweden is among the contenders for the Fifa Puskas Award for the year's champion goal.

She volition look contention from Kylian Mbappe's stunning volley for France, which took the World Cup last to other time.

Voting closes connected 3 February, with the 3 finalists successful each class to beryllium announced aboriginal that month.

Best Women's Player

Aitana Bonmati (Spain/Barcelona)

Debinha (Brazil/North Carolina Courage)

Jessie Fleming (Canada/Chelsea)

Ada Hegerberg (Norway/Lyon)

Sam Kerr (Australia/Chelsea)

Beth Mead (England/Arsenal)

Vivianne Miedema (Netherlands/Arsenal)

Alex Morgan (USA/Orlando Pride/San Diego Wave)

Lena Oberdorf (Germany/Wolfsburg)

Alexandra Popp (Germany/Wolfsburg)

Alexia Putellas (Spain/Barcelona)

Wendie Renard (France/Lyon)

Keira Walsh (England/Manchester City/Barcelona)

Leah Williamson (England/Arsenal)

Best Men's Player

Julian Alvarez (Argentina/Club Atletico River Plate/Manchester City)

Jude Bellingham (England/Borussia Dortmund)

Karim Benzema (France/Real Madrid)

Kevin de Bruyne (Belgium/Manchester City)

Erling Haaland (Norway/Borussia Dortmund/Manchester City)

Achraf Hakimi (Spain/Paris Saint-Germain)

Robert Lewandowski (Poland/Bayern Munich/Barcelona)

Sadio Mane (Senegal/Liverpool/Bayern Munich)

Kylian Mbappe (France/Paris Saint-Germain)

Lionel Messi (Argentina/Paris Saint-Germain)

Luka Modric (Croatia/Real Madrid)

Neymar (Brazil/Paris Saint-Germain)

Mohamed Salah (Egypt/Liverpool)

Vinicius Junior (Brazil/Real Madrid)

Best Women's Coach

Sonia Bompastor (France/Olympique Lyonnais)

Emma Hayes (England/Chelsea FC Women)

Bev Priestman (England/Canadian nationalist team)

Pia Sundhage (Sweden/Brazilian nationalist team)

Martina Voss-Tecklenburg (Germany/German nationalist team)

Sarina Wiegman (Netherlands/English nationalist team)

Best Men's Coach

Carlo Ancelotti (Italy/Real Madrid)

Didier Deschamps (France/French nationalist team)

Pep Guardiola (Spain/Manchester City)

Walid Regragui (Morocco/ Wydad AC/ Moroccan nationalist team)

Lionel Scaloni (Argentina/ Argentinian nationalist team)

Best Women's Goalkeeper

Ann-Katrin Berger (Germany/Chelsea)

Mary Earps (England/Manchester United)

Christiane Endler (Chile/Olympique Lyonnais)

Merle Frohms (Germany/Eintracht Frankfurt/VfL Wolfsburg)

Alyssa Naeher (USA/Chicago Red Stars)

Sandra Panos Garcia-Villamil (Spain/Barcelona)

Best Men's Goalkeeper

Alisson Becker (Brazil/Liverpool)

Yassine Bounou (Morocco/ Sevilla)

Thibaut Courtois (Belgium/Real Madrid)

Ederson (Brazil/Manchester City)

Emiliano Martinez (Argentina/Aston Villa)

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