FIFA’s rival to the Ballon d’Or was announced on Monday with ‘The Best’ awards to be handed out to the world’s top soccer players in January.

FIFA Introduces ‘Best Football Awards’ After Splitting With Ballon D’Or

With the Ballon d’Or having ceased to exist after the contract between France Football and the world game’s governing body expired, FIFA has revealed their replacement.

The Best FIFA Men’s Player 2016 is one of eight prizes to be announced at the Best FIFA Football Awards in Zurich on Jan. 9.

These awards will include greater fan participation thanks to a new voting system in the Player and Coach of the Year categories. The winners will be chosen via a process in which 50 per cent of the result is based on the choices of captains and head coaches of all of the world’s national teams. The other 50 per cent will be split between the result of an online public ballot and the submissions from a selected group of more than 200 media representatives from around the world.

Here is the full list of awards to be presented:

FIFA president Gianni Infantino said:

“This event will be about football and its most passionate participants – players, coaches and fans.

“It is a new event with new approaches to celebrating the game we all love.”

Players will still choose the lineup for the FIFPro World11, while fans will select the Puskas Award for goal of the year through an online public ballot.

Some 23 candidates for the men’s award will be announced this Friday, while the final shortlist with three nominees in each category will be unveiled on December 2.

USA’s World Cup-winning midfielder Carli Lloyd and Argentinian Barcelona forward Lionel Messi won the respective player awards at the 2015 Fifa Ballon d’Or awards in January.

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – JANUARY 11: FIFA Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi of Argentina and FC Barcelona speaks during the FIFA Ballon d’Or Gala 2015 at the Kongresshaus on January 11, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi was announced as the winner of the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for the fifth time in his career. Messi had 41.33% of the vote of FIFA officials with Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo having 27.76% for second and Barcelona teammate Neymar having 7.86% for third place.

Messi played in 61 games this year with Barcelona and accumulated 52 goals and 26 assists. This resulted in winning the treble – La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Champions League – with Barcelona for the 2014-2015 soccer year. “It’s a very special moment for me to be back here on this stage, winning again another Ballon d’Or after seeing Cristiano win it,” Messi said. “It’s incredible that it’s my fifth. Much more than anything I would have dreamed of as a kid.”

The Ballon d’Or is awarded to the male player who performs the best in the world for the previous calendar year. Since 2008, only Ronaldo and Messi have won the award with Messi winning it every year from 2009-12 and Ronaldo winning it 2008 and again in 2013-14.

Other awards given out during the ceremony included USA midfielder Carli Lloyd winning the women’s world player of the year award. USA head coach Jill Ellis won the women’s football world coach of the year while Barcelona coach Luis Enrique won the world coach of the year award.

In what is the least surprising award of 2014, Cristiano Ronaldo has won the FIFA Ballon d’Or. After a ridiculous 2014, where he had 52 goals in 43 games and became the fastest to reach 200 goals in La Liga history (178 games), Ronaldo won the d’Or by a fairly large margin.

He received 37.66 percent of the votes to garner his third player of the year trophy: with 4 time winner Lionel Messi getting 15.76 percent and Bayern Munich and Germany goalie Manuel Neuer narrowly finishing in third with 15.72 percent.

As for other awards, Germany’s coach, Joachim Low was awarded men’s coach of the year after his 2014 World Cup win. VfL Wolfsburg’s Ralf Kellermann and Nadine Kessler won women’s coach and player of the year. And finally James Rodriguez won the Puskas Award: aka FIFA’s goal of the year.