ESM XI

Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus, 8 votes)
Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund, 7 votes)
Gerard Pique (Barcelona, 6 votes)
Jose Gimenez (Atletico Madrid, 4 votes)
Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid, 3 votes)
Dimitri Payet (West Ham United, 9 votes)
N’Golo Kante (Leicester City, 6 votes)
Paul Pogba (Juventus, 3 votes)
Lionel Messi (Barcelona, 9 votes)
Gonzalo Higuain (Napoli, 6 votes)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (PSG, 6 votes)

How everyone voted

World Soccer (England)
1 Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
2 Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich)
3 Jose Gimenez (Atletico Madrid)
4 Robert Huth (Leicester City)
5 Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid)
6 N’Golo Kante (Leicester City)
7 Kingsley Coman (Bayern Munich)
8 Dimitri Payet (West Ham United)
9 Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
10 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
11 Gonzalo Higuain (Napoli)

Fanatik (Turkey)
1 Kevin Trapp (Paris Saint-Germain)
2 Dani Alves (Barcelona)
3 Gerard Pique (Barcelona)
4 Diego Godin (Aletico Madrid)
5 Jordi Alba (Barcelona)
6 Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City)
7 Dimitri Payet (West Ham United)
8 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
9 Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
10 Luis Suarez (Barcelona)
11 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (PSG)

Tips Bladet (Denmark)
1 Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
2 Kyle Walker (Tottenham)
3 Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund)
4 Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus)
5 Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid)
6 Paul Pogba (Juventus)
7 Mohamed Salah (Roma)
8 Dimitri Payet (West Ham United)
9 Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
10 Gonzalo Higuain (Napoli)
11 Harry Kane (Tottenham)

Marca (Spain)
1 Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
2 Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus)
3 Diego Godin (Atletico Madrid)
4 Jose Gimenez (Atletico Madrid)
5 David Alaba (Bayern Munich)
6 N’Golo Kante (Leicester City)
7 Casemiro (Real Madrid)
8 Danny Drinkwater (Leicester City)
9 Gonzalo Higuain (Napoli)
10 Harry Kane (Tottenham)
11 Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid)

Sport/Voetbalmagazine (Belgium)
1 Jan Oblak (Atletico Madrid)
2 Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham)
3 Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus)
4 Thiago Silva (PSG)
5 Gerard Pique (Barcelona)
6 Paul Pogba (Juventus)
7 Marco Verratti (PSG)
8 Danny Drinkwater (Leicester City)
9 Luis Suarez (Barcelona)
10 Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)
11 Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

ELF Voetbal (Netherlands)
1 Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
2 Hector Bellerin (Arsenal)
3 Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund)
4 Gerard Pique (Barcelona)
5 Layvin Kurzawa (Paris Saint-Germain)
6 Paul Pogba (Juventus)
7 Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool)
8 Dimitri Payet (West Ham United)
9 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain)
10 Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
11 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

Frankfurter Allgemeine (Germany)
1 David De Gea (Manchester United)
2 Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund)
3 Chris Smalling (Manchester United)
4 Thiago Silva (Paris Saint-Germain)
5 Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool)
6 Arturo Vidal (Bayern Munich)
7 Henrykh Mkhytarjan (Borussia Dortmund)
8 Dimitri Payet (West Ham United)
9 Thomas Muler (Bayern Munich)
10 Harry Kane (Tottenham)
11 Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

Kicker (Germany)
1 Ralf Fahrmann (Schalke)
2 Juanfran (Atletico Madrid)
3 Gerald Pique (Barcelona)
4 Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund)
5 Marcelo (Real Madrid)
6 Arturo Vidal (Bayern Munich)
7 Sergio Busquets (Barcelona)
8 Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid)
9 Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
10 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain)
11 Gonzalo Higuain (Napoli)

A Bola (Portugal)
1 Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
2 Daniel Alves (Barcelona)
3 Gerard Pique (Barcelona)
4 Thiago Silva (Paris Saint-Germain)
5 Alex Sandro (Juventus)
6 Xabi Alonso (Bayern)
7 N’Golo Kante (Leicester City)
8 Douglas Costa (Bayern Munich)
9 Jonas (Benfica)
10 Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
11 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

Sport-Express (Russia)
1 Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
2 Danilo (Real Madrid)
3 Jose Gimenez (Atletico Madrid)
4 Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund)
5 Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid)
6 Dimitri Payet (West Ham)
7 N’Golo Kante (Leicester City)
8 Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
9 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
10 Gonzalo Higuain (Napoli)
11 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain)

De Telegraaf (Netherlands)
1 Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester City)
2 Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich)
3 Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli)
4 Gerard Pique (Barcelona)
5 Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus)
6 Adrien Rabiot (Paris Saint-Germain)
7 Dimitri Payet (West Ham United)
8 Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund)
9 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain)
10 Jamie Vardy (Leicester City)
11 Luis Suarez (Barcelona)

So Foot (France)
1 Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
2 Hugo Mallo (Celta Vigo)
3 Papy Djilobodji (Werder Bremen)
4 Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund)
5 Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City)
6 N’Golo Kante (Leicester City)
7 Leonardo Bittencourt (Koln)
8 Mahmoud Dahoud (Monchengladbach)
9 Dimitri Payet (West Ham United)
10 Nolan Roux (Saint-Etienne)
11 Moussa Dembele (Tottenham)

Nemzeti (Hungary)
1 David De Gea (Manchester United)
2 Joel Veltman (Ajax Amsterdam)
3 Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich)
4 Jose Gimenez (Atletico Madrid)
5 Marcel Schmelzer (Borussia Dortmund)
6 Douglas Costa (Bayern Munich)
7 Paul Pogba (Juventus)
8 Dimitri Payet (West Ham United)
9 Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid)
10 Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur)
11 Gonzalo Higuain (Napoli)

GOAL NEWS
1 Keylor Navas (Real Madrid)
2 Hector Bellerin (Arsenal)
3 Gerard Pique (Barcelona)
4 Robert Huth (Leicester City)
5 Jonas Hector (Koln)
6 Kingsley Coman (Bayern Munich)
7 N’Golo Kante (Leicester City)
8 Ryad Mahrez (Leicester City)
9 Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
10 Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)
11 Alvaro Morata (Juventus)

World Soccer is a member of European Sports Media. Each month the individual members nominate their 11 best players. The votes are collated throughout the season to produce the ESM Team of the Season.