For our sixth annual survey we have gathered our biggest panel yet: 169 judges from 63 countries choosing the 100 best male footballers in the world in 2017. On Wednesday we will reveal Nos70-41, on Thursday Nos40-11 before the top 10 on Friday completes this year’s list. • If players are level on points in the scoring, the number of individual votes cast is used as a tie-breaker. Voting disclosure• We are very grateful to our judges for taking part, and none have been paid for participating in this project. The judges’ numbers bear no relation whatsoever to the alphabetical list of judges’ names presented above.

Source: The Guardian December 18, 2017 13:02 UTC