Yaya Toure wins 2014 African Player of the Year Title four years in a row

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has become the first player to be named Confederation of African Football African Footballer of the Year four years in a row. 

YayaToure(31) was nominated after playing a pivotal role in winning the Premier League and League Cup.

Yaya Toure also helped Ivory Coast qualify for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.

Yaya Toure beat off the challenge of Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.

Yaya Toure, of the Ivory Coast and Manchester City, makes a speech after receiving the African Player of the Year award, for a record fourth straight time, during the Confederation of African Football (CAF) award ceremony in Lagos, January 8, 2015

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Manchester City star Yaya Toure has been revealed as one of 3 players nominated to win the African Footballer of the Year award 2014

Lille goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama and Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang make up the final contingent. 

A longer list involving 25 players was announced in November 2014 but that has now been whittled down

25 – Man Shortlist for CAF African Footballer of the Year 2014

Asamoah Gyan (Ghana, Al-Ain)

Kwadwo Asamoah (Ghana, Juventus)

Dame N’doye (Senegal, Lokomotiv Moscow)

Sadio Mané (Senegal, Southampton)

Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo, Tottenham)

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting(Cameroon, Schalke 04)

Stephane Mbia (Cameroon , Sevilla)

Vincent Aboubakar (Cameroon , Porto)

Yao Kouassi Gervais (Cote d’Ivoire, AS Roma)

Wilfred Bony (Cote d’Ivoire, Swansea)

Yaya Toure (Cote d’Ivoire, Manchester City)

Fakhreddine Ben Youssef  (Tunisia, CS Sfaxien)

Ferdjani Sassi (Tunisia, CS Sfaxien)

Islam Slimani (Algeria, Sporting Lisbon)

Raïs M’Bolhi (Algeria, Philadelphia Union)

Sofiane Feghouli (Algeria, Valencia)

Yacine Brahimi (Algeria, Porto)

Yannick Bolasie (DR Congo, Crystal Palace)

Thulani Serero (South Africa, Ajax)

Seydou Keita (Mali, As Roma)

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon, Borussia Dortmund)

Mohamed El Neny ( Egypt, Basel)

Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria, Lille)

Ahmed Musa (Nigeria, CSKA Moscow)

Yaya Toure has won the award three times before, he scored 24 goals last season for Manchester City in all competitions

 

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored 14 goals last season as Dortmund finished runners-up in the 

Bundesliga

Victor Enyeama helped Lille to a third-placed finish in Ligue 1 and also captained Nigeria at the 2014 FIFA World Cup

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The African Footballer of the Year award, presented to the best African Footballer each year, has been conferred by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 1992

2010 BBC African Footballer of the Year - Ghana and Sunderland's Asamoah Gyan

BBC African Footballer of the Year 2011,2012 & 2013: Manchester City and Ivory Coast's Yaya Toure