Welcome to our seventh edition of the top 100 female footballers worldwide, featuring the 99 esteemed judges who participated in this year's voting process.
Our distinguished panel includes some of the most influential coaches in women's football, such as Kansas City Current's Vlatko Andonovski, Lyon's Joe Montemurro, and Bayern Munich's Alexander Strauss. This year, we welcome many new judges, including Eintracht Frankfurt's Niko Arnautis, France's Laurent Bonadei, Ajax's Hesterine de Reus, Panama's Tona Is, USA assistant Denise Reddy, and Racing Louisville's Carmelina Moscato, among others.
The panel also boasts a significant number of former players, including record holders like New Zealand's Ria Percival, Portugal's Edite Fernandes, and Northern Ireland's Julie Nelson, alongside Anouk Dekker, Darian Jenkins, Cheyna Matthews, and Leonie Pankratz.
Their collective votes have determined the top player for 2024, considering a 12-month period highlighted by the exhilarating Olympic Games in Paris. The countdown commences on December 3rd, revealing players ranked 100-71, followed by 70-41, 40-11, and culminating with the top 10.
The judges are categorized and listed alphabetically. Key figures include Izzy Christiansen, Anouk Dekker, Becky Edwards, Edite Fernandes, Alicia Fuentes Molina, Luna Gevitz, Darian Jenkins, Cheyna Matthews, Julie Nelson, Leonie Pankratz, Ana Paola Lopez Yrigoyen, Ria Percival, Jenny Ruiz-Williams, Sissi, Laura Vetterlein, Brianna Visalli, Amy Walsh, Fabrice Abriel, Vlatko Andonovski, Niko Arnautis, Natalia Arroyo, Natalia Astrain, Ben Bate, Leah Blayney, Laurent Bonadei, Shilene Booysen, Mariana Cabral, Lisa Cole, Hesterine de Reus, Sabrina Eckhoff, Fabio Fukumoto, Ann-Helén Grahm, Martin Ho, Louis Hunt, Tona Is, Jonne Kunnas, Pedro López Ramos, Joe Montemurro, Carmelina Moscato, Mark Parsons, Signe Pries Andersen, Denise Reddy, Cedric Roger, Marko Saloranta, Guillermo Schiltenwolf, Martin Sjögren, Kat Smith, Alessandro Spugna, Alexander Strauss, Lene Terp, Javier Visea, Randy Waldrum, Abdullah Abdullah, Samuel Ahmadu, Melanie Anzidei, Esther Appiah-Fei, Romain Balland, Annika Becker, Alex Bishop, Micaela Cannataro, Anna Carreau, Javiera Court Arrau, Seraina Degen, Sofie Engberg Munch, Ryan Fenix, Tom Garry, Tamerra Griffin, Alex Ibaceta, Caleb Jephte Pierre, Meaghen Johnson, Calvin Kaumba Chikenge, Mariam Kourabi, Rich Laverty, Sophie Lawson, Gianluca Lia, Marissa Lordanic, Joey Lynch, David Menayo, Unnati Naidu, Blair Newman, Chibuogwu Nnadiegbulam, Rivkah op het Veld, Christina Paulos, Teo Pellizzeri, Alicia Soares, Courtney Stith, Joanna Tokarska, Assile Toufaily, Hanna Urbaniak, Amber van Lieshout-Boonman, Amanda Viana, Raffaella Volpiana, Julia Wanjeri, Lucy Ward, Adriana Wehrens, Suzanne Wrack, Bi Yuan, Ayishatu Zakaria Ali, and Amanda Zaza.
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