UEFA fans’ Team of the Year 2019 revealed

The UEFA.com fans’ Team of the Year 2019 has been revealed, after more than 2 million votes were cast over the course of six weeks.

This year’s Team of the year includes seven players making their first appearance.

Goal keeper:         Alisson Becker (Liverpool)

All-time selections: debut

2019
UEFA club competition: 11 appearances (5 clean sheets)
Club World Cup: 2 (1)
Domestic: 30 (13)
Brazil: 10 (7)
Total: 53 (26)

A UEFA Champions League winner in his first campaign at Anfield, the Brazilian was named Goalkeeper of the Season for the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League campaign and kept 21 clean sheets as the Reds finished Premier League runners-up.

DEFENDERS

• Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool)
  All-time selections: debut

2019
UEFA club competition: 12 appearances (5 clean sheets)
Club World Cup: 2 (1)
Domestic: 34 (14)
England: 4 (3)
Total: 52 (23)

The youngest player to start successive Champions League finals, he was named in the official 2018/19 Squad of the Season and, domestically, set a Premier League record for most assists by a defender in a campaign (12).

• Matthijs de Ligt (Ajax/Juventus)

2019
UEFA club competition: 10 appearances (3 clean sheets)
Domestic: 33 (10)
Netherlands: 10 (4)
Total: 53 (17)

A star in defence as Ajax won a domestic double and reached the Champions League semi-finals, scoring a last-eight winner against Juventus – who he want on to join last summer – to cement his place in the 2018/19 Squad of the Season.

• Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
  All-time selections: 2

2019
UEFA club competition: 13 appearances (4 clean sheets)
Club World Cup: 1 (1)
Domestic: 38 (15)
Netherlands: 9 (3)
Total: 61 (23)

The UEFA Men’s Player of the Year and Champions League Defender of the Season was man of the match in the final, then finished runner-up for both the Best FIFA Men’s Player award and Ballon d’Or.

• Andy Robertson (Liverpool)
  All-time selections: debut

2019
UEFA club competition: 13 appearances (4 clean sheets)
Club World Cup: 2 (1)
Domestic: 38 (15)
Scotland: 6 (2)
Total: 59 (22)

Robertson made the 2018/19 Squad of the Season, provided 13 assists in all competitions last term and scored his first Champions League goal in October.

MIDFIELDERS

• Frenkie de Jong (Ajax/Barcelona)
  All-time selections: debut

2019
UEFA club competition: 12 appearances (no goals)
Domestic: 37 (1)
Netherlands: 10 (1)
Total: 59 (2)

Named Champions League Midfielder of the Season, he won the Dutch double and was named the Eredivisie Player of the Season before a high-profile move from Ajax to Barcelona.

• Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City)All-time selections: 2

2019
UEFA club competition: 7 appearances (no goals)
Domestic: 40 (11)
Belgium: 6 (4)
Total: 53 (15)

Another selected in the 2018/19 Champions League Squad of the Season, the midfielder won a domestic treble with Manchester City and inspired Belgium to become the first team to qualify for UEFA EURO 2020.

• Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
  All-time selections: 11

2019
UEFA club competition: 11 appearances (8 goals)
Domestic: 37 (37)
Argentina: 10 (5)
Total: 58 (50)

The 2018/19 Champions League Forward of the Season, 12-goal top scorer and first player to score in 15 successive seasons in the competition, Messi racked up a half-century of goals for the ninth time in the last ten years.

FORWARDS

• Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus)All-time selections: 14

2019
UEFA club competition: 10 appearances (7 goals)
Domestic: 30 (18)
Portugal: 10 (14)
Total: 50 (39)

Another stellar 12 months for the evergreen Ronaldo, who added maiden Serie A and UEFA Nations League titles to his already bulging trophy cabinet. Aged 34 but still talismanic for both club and country.

• Robert Lewandowski (Bayern)
  All-time selections: debut

2019
UEFA club competition: 7 appearances (10 goals)
Domestic: 41 (38)
Poland: 10 (6)
Total: 58 (54)

The second-highest scorer in the 2018/19 Champions League topped the charts in the Bundesliga (22) and German Cup (7) – both won by Bayern – before becoming the first man to score in the opening 11 games of a Bundesliga campaign. Top scored in this season’s Champions League group stage with ten goals.

• Sadio Mané (Liverpool)All-time selections: debut

2019
UEFA club competition: 14 appearances (7 goals)
Club World Cup: 2 (0)
Domestic: 36 (24)
Senegal: 11 (4)
Total: 63 (35)

The 2018/19 Champions League Squad of the Season member was also the Premier League’s joint top scorer – he has since reached 100 appearances and brought up 50 league goals for Liverpool. Named 2019 African Player of the Year.