BBC African Footballer of the Year
VERIFIED evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)
Combined Graph record U-01500 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-L-0027. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
BBC African Footballer of the Year is the BBC's fan-voted award for the year's outstanding African footballer (stored issuer 'BBC' stands): Mohamed Salah won in 2018 for the second year running, with a record 650,000+ votes cast, per Sky Sports' report of the BBC result (tier-3 journalism, fetched in full). No edition after 2018 was found in searching; 2018 is the last edition evidenced.
Answer summary · this record in brief, from its own record text
BBC African Footballer of the Year is the BBC's fan-voted award for the year's outstanding African footballer (stored issuer 'BBC' stands): Mohamed Salah won in 2018 for the second year running, with a record 650,000+ votes cast, per Sky Sports' report of the BBC result (tier-3 journalism, fetched in full). No edition after 2018 was found in searching; 2018 is the last edition evidenced.
Sources
- https://www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/11095/11581135/mohamed-salah-named-bbc-african-footballer-of-the-year-2018 (verification source · master store)
Evidence note (master store)
BBC African Footballer of the Year is the BBC's fan-voted award for the year's outstanding African footballer (stored issuer 'BBC' stands): Mohamed Salah won in 2018 for the second year running, with a record 650,000+ votes cast, per Sky Sports' report of the BBC result (tier-3 journalism, fetched in full). No edition after 2018 was found in searching; 2018 is the last edition evidenced.
More list records
- Chicago's Tallest Buildings
- Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame
- Crain's 40 Under 40
- Diaspora Chefs
- DownBeat Critics Poll
- Ghana Music Awards
Browse the full directory: all entity records
Record CTL-L-0027 · Combined Graph record U-01500 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · 1 source.
Directory: all entity records · the knowledge graph
Researched and maintained by the CultureTechLens research program · CultureTechLens Combined Graph, Release 2026-11-04. Corrections are public: the corrections log.
Cite this record
Chicago: CultureTechLens. “BBC African Footballer of the Year (CTL-L-0027).” CultureTechLens Combined Graph. Chicago, IL: CultureTechLens, 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-l-0027/
APA: CultureTechLens. (2026). BBC African Footballer of the Year (CTL-L-0027) [Entity record]. CultureTechLens Combined Graph. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-l-0027/
MLA: CultureTechLens. “BBC African Footballer of the Year (CTL-L-0027).” CultureTechLens Combined Graph, 2026, https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-l-0027/
Citation guidance for teachers, journalists, and funders: How to Cite Us.
From the Archive
The archive in pictures
The people, places, and institutions this work documents. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.



Trust & evidence
Evidence before authority. CultureTechLens publishes its methods, its limits, and its corrections alongside its findings. Claims carry grades — VERIFIED, SUPPORTED, PROVISIONAL, DISPUTED, UNRESOLVED — and unknowns are never reported as zero.
Every claim graded. Every source named. Every correction public — see the corrections log.