page_title: African Footballer of the Year
section_title: CAF award (1992–present)
hierarchical_section_title: African Footballer of the Year / Winners / CAF award (1992–present)
caption_attribution_description: Samuel Eto'o
context_page_description: The African Footballer of the Year award, presented to the best African footballer each year, has been conferred by the Confederation of African Football since 1992. An earlier African Footballer of the Year Golden Ball award was given out between 1970 and 1994 by France Football magazine. The changes resulted in parallel Golden Ball awards given out to Abedi Pele and George Weah in 1993 and 1994 by the magazine although the CAF sponsored awards for those years were won respectively by Rashidi Yekini and Emmanuel Amuneke, as well as two awards given to Abedi Pele in 1992. France Football discontinued the election from 1995 after the European Ballon d'Or – also awarded by the magazine – had been opened to all players in the European leagues.
  Samuel Eto'o and Yaya Touré are the players who have won the award the most times; Frédéric Kanouté who was named the 2007 African Footballer of the Year was born in France and is the first European-born player to win the award.
caption: Samuel Eto'o won the award four times.
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