All you need to know about FIFA's The Best FIFA Football Awards

- Cristiano Ronaldo is favourite to win the Men's player of the year award

- The awards ceremony is the second in FIFA's The Best chronology

- Eight awards in men and women's categories will be handed out on the night

- The best goalkeeper award will be given out for the first time ever

NAIJ.com takes a look at the upcoming FIFA The Best awards which will honour the best players, coaches, goals and fans in the world of football.

For the first time ever, FIFA will be honouring the best goalkeeper in world football in the second edition of The Best series.

Eight awards will be handed out and have listed the nominees for each award.

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Cristiano Ronaldo was named the FIFA footballer of the year in 2016. Photo: Squawka

Here are all the things you need to know about the awards;

When will the awards be held?

Today, Monday, October 23. The ceremony is expected to start at 7.30pm

Where will the awards be held?

The London Palladium

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What awards will be handed out?

The Best FIFA Men’s Player - Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid and Portugal), Lionel Messi (Barcelona and Argentina), Neymar (PSG and Brazil)

Members of the 2016 FIFA Pro pose at last year's ceremony. Photo: AS

The Best FIFA Women’s Player - Deyna Castellanos (Venezuela and Santa Clarita Blue), Carli Lloyd (USA And Man City women), Lieke Martens (Netherlands and Barcelona)

The Best FIFA Men’s Coach - Max Allegri (Juventus and Italy), Antonio Conte (Chelsea and Italy), Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid and France)

The Best FIFA Women’s Coach - Nils Nielsen (Denmark), Gerard Precheur (France and Lyon), Sarina Wiegman (Netherlands)

The Best FIFA Goalkeeper - Gianluigi Buffon, Keylor Navas, Manuel Neuer

The FIFA Puskás Award - Deyna, Castellanos, Olivier Giroud, oscarine Masuluke

The FIFA Fan Award - Borussia Dortmund fans, Celtic supporters, FC Copenhagen supporters

The FIFA Fair Play Award - (winner to be revealed at the awards ceremony)

The FIFAPro World 11 team - Will be named at the ceremony, decided by thousands of professional players from around the world.

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