1996-97 Team of the Year

	Cantona, E		Ronaldo		Zola, G
	(Baggio, R) .
Giggs, R		Djorkaeff, Y		Del Piero, A		Beckham, D
						(McManaman, S) .
	Maldini, P		Sammer, M			Carlos, R
						(Desailly, M) .
			Schemeichel, P

Players were selected based on their playing position (forward, midfielder, defender or goalkeeper)
with the top polling players getting priority. Substitutes are in brackets.