The Ballon d'Or is an annual football award presented to the most outstanding players by the French news magazine France Football.
Africa has seen few of its players appearing on the list let alone winning like Liberia's incumbent President, George Weah did.
Since 1956, every single winner has come from South America or Europe save for Weah who broke the tradition in 1995.
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Cameroon is the most successful African country on the Ballon d'Or list with an impressive total of 11 appearances.
Its African stars include Samuel Eto'o, Roger Milla, Thomas Nkono, Patrick Mboma, Théophile Abega and Manga Onguene.
Samuel Eto'o was nominated on four occasions, Roger Milla and Thomas Nkono appeared twice, with Patrick Mboma, Théophile Abega and Manga Onguene made it to the list only once.
Nigeria players include Victor Ikpeba, Nwankwo Kanu, Finidi George and Michael Essien.
Ivory Coast has also had its share on the Ballon d'Or list with the likes of Didier Drogba and Yaya Toure.
Senegal, the 2022 African Men team of the year have El-Hadji Diouf, Papa Bouba Diop, Kalidou Koulibaly and Sadio Mane.
Ghana has Tony Yeboah and Asamoah Gyan.
Liberia, Togo, Mali, Gabon and Egypt all had a single representative; George Weah, Emmanuel Adebayor, Fredi Kanoute, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Mohamed Salah respectively.
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