Toure, Aubameyang and Salah lead CAF Player of the Year nominations

Yaya Toure is seeking a fifth consecutive CAF Player
of the Year title after being included in the 37-man
shortlist.

Yaya Toure, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Mohamed Salah
are among the star names to be nominated for the 2015 CAF
Player of the Year award.

The Confederation of African Football has named 37 players on
its shortlist for the continent's most prestigious individual
award, with the eventual winner to be named on December 22.

Toure has taken out the last four CAF Player of the Year
awards. If he makes it five in succession this year, he will hold
the outright record over Samuel Eto'o, who has also won it four
times.

The Manchester City midfielder won the Africa Cup of Nations
with Ivory Coast this year but will still face stiff competition for
the individual prize, having been short of his best form at club
level.

Aubameyang, who finished second last year, scored 25 goals
for Borussia Dortmund last season. He has already struck 14
times in all competitions so far this term.

Former Chelsea winger Salah enjoyed an excellent second half
of 2014-15 with Fiorentina before signing for Roma in the close-
season.

Other names on the list include Gervinho, a club colleague of the
Egyptian and international team-mate of Toure, as well as
Vincent Enyeama, who came third in 2014 and has recently
been involved in a public feud with Nigeria boss Sunday Oliseh.

Eto'o and two-time winner Didier Drogba, who had been named
on the podium for two of the last three years, are not included in
the list.

CAF Player of the Year 2015 shortlist in full: Ahmed Musa, Andre
Ayew, Aymen Abdennour, Baghdad Bounedjah, Basem Morsi,
Christian Atsu, Dieumerci Mbokani, El Arbi Hillel Soudani, Faouzi
Ghoulam, Ferebory Dore, Gervinho, Ibrahima Traore, Javier
Balboa, Heldon Ramos, Mame Diouf, Max Gradel, Mehdi
Benatia, Modather Al Tayeb, Mohamed Salah, Nicolas Nkoulou,
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Robert Kidiaba, Rudy Gestede,
Riyad Mahrez, Sadio Mane, Serge Aurier, Seydou Keita, Sofiane
Feghouli, Stephane Mbia, Thievy Bifouma, Victor Wanyama,
Vincent Aboubakar, Vincent Enyeama, Yacine Brahimi, Yannick
Bolasie, Yasine Chikhaoui and Yaya Toure.