Complete list of all African Player of the Year winners

Dakar - Complete list of African Player of the Year award winners after Egyptian Mohamed Salah won the 2018 edition on Tuesday evening:

4: Abedi 'Pele' Ayew (GHA), Samuel Eto'o (CMR), Yaya Toure (CIV)

3: George Weah (LBR)

2: Roger Milla, Thomas N'Kono (both CMR), El Hadji Diouf (SEN), Didier Drogba (CIV), Nwankwo Kanu (NGR), Mohamed Salah (EGY)

1: Ahmed Faras, Mustapha Hadji, Mohamed Timoumi, Badou Zaki (all MAR), Theophile Abega, Patrick Mboma, Jean-Manga Onguene (all CMR), Emmanuel Amunike, Victor Ikpeba, Rashidi Yekini (all NGR), Lakhdar Belloumi, Rabah Madjer, Riyad Mahrez (all ALG), Frederic Kanoute, Salif Keita (both MLI), Mahmoud al Khatib (EGY), Karim Abdul Razak, Ibrahim Sunday (both GHA), Emmanuel Adebayor (TOG), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (GAB), Kalusha Bwalya (ZAM), Tshimimu Bwanga (COD), Tarak Dhiab (TUN), Paul Moukila (CGO), Cherif Souleymane (GUI)

*Note: France Football magazine organised an annual award between 1970 and 1994 and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) have done so since 1992 resulting in three years when there were two awards