FIFA Fair Play Award

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The FIFA Fair Play Award is an award given by FIFA to players who performed fair play in their games or were involved in a specific incident of fair play or the spectators were given for their good behaviour for a long period of time or fighting against racism. The inaugural award was given to fans of Dundee United in 1987 following their sporting behaviour in the UEFA Cup Final defeat to Gothenburg that year.

Paolo Di Canio was awarded this prize after shunning a goalscoring opportunity while Everton goalkeeper Paul Gerrard was lying injured on the ground. FIFA described the act as "a special act of good sportsmanship."^[1]

[edit] Winners

Year	Winner
1987	Fans of Dundee United
1988	Frank Ordenewitz Spectators of the Olympic football tournament Seoul '88
1989	Spectators of Trinidad and Tobago
1990	Gary Lineker
1991	Real Federación Española de fútbol Jorginho
1992	Union Royale Belge des sociétés de football association
1993	Nándor Hidegkuti The Football Association of Zambia
1994	Not awarded
1995	Jacques Glassmann
1996	George Weah
1997	Irish spectators during the World Cup preliminary match versus Belgium. Joseph Zovinec (Slovak amateur player) Julie Foudy
1998	The United States Soccer Federation The Islamic Republic of Iran Football Federation The Irish Football Association
1999	New Zealand's football community
2000	Lucas Radebe
2001	Paolo Di Canio
2002	Football communities of Japan and Korea Republic
2003	Fans of Celtic
2004	Confederação Brasileira de Futebol
2005	Community of Iquitos, Peru
2006	Fans of the 2006 World Cup^[2]
2007	FC Barcelona^[3]