Toure wins fourth straight African Footballer of Year award	

Manchester City and Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure has been named African Footballer of the Year for a record fourth consecutive time.

He is the only player to have achieved this feat.

Samuel Eto’o is the only other player to have won four times but not successively.

This year Toure beat Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon and Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama following a poll of the coaches and captains of Africa’s National teams.

Toure scored 20 goals to help Man City regain the Premier League title and also proved instrumental in his club’s League Cup crown.

 Full list of winners:

    African Player of the Year: Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast and Manchester City)
    African Player of the Year - Based in Africa: Firmin Mubele Ndombe (DR Congo and AS Vita)
    Women's Player of the Year: Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria and River Angels)
    Youth Player of the Year: Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria and River Angels)
    Most Promising Talent: Yacine Brahimi (Algeria and Porto)
    Coach of the Year: Kheireddine Madoui (Entente Setif)
    National Team of the Year: Algeria
    Women's National Team of the Year: Nigeria
    Club of the Year: Entente Setif (Algeria)
    Referee of the Year: Papa Bakary Gassama (Gambia)
    Football Leader of the Year: Moise Katumbi - President of TP Mazembe (DR Congo)
    African Legend award: Oryx Club (Cameroon) - winners of the maiden edition of CAF Champions League 1964 and Stade Malien (Mali) - runner up of the maiden edition of CAF Champion's League 1964
    Platinum Award: Dr Kwame Nkrumah (First President of Ghana) and His Excellency Goodluck Jonthan (President of Nigeria)
    CAF team of the 2014: Goalkeeper: Vincent Enyeama (Nigeria) Defenders: Jean Kasulula (DR Congo), Mehdi Benatia (Morocco), Stephane Mbia (Cameroon), Kwadwo Asamoah (Ghana) Midfielders: Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast), Yacine Brahimi (Algeria), Fakhreddine Ben Youssef (Tunisia), Ahmed Musa (Nigeria) Forwards: Asamoah Gyan (Ghana), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon) Substitutes: Raïs M'Bolhi (Algeria), Firmin Mubele Ndombe (DR Congo), Ferdjani Sassi (Tunisia), Gervinho (Ivory Coast), Abdelrahman Fetori (Libya), Akram Djahnit (Algeria), Roger Assalé (Ivory Coast)

SOURCE: euronews