Cristiano Ronaldo won the award in 2016 and most likely to do the same this year.
The magazine will be releasing the names of the 30 nominees throughout the day.
Below is the first 20 released, France football magazine will be releasing the names all through the day.
Neymar (PSG)
Luka Modric (Real Madrid)
Paulo Dybala (Juventus)
Marcelo (Real Madrid)
N’Golo Kanté (Chelsea)
Luis Suárez (Barcelona)
Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid)
Jan Oblak (Atlético Madrid)
Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool)
Dries Mertens (Napoli)
Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City)
Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)
David De Gea (Manchester United)
Harry Kane (Tottenham)
Edin Džeko (AS Roma)
Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid)
Toni Kroos (Real Madrid)
Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
Sadio Mané (Liverpool)
Radamel Falcao (Monaco)