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No English, Irish or Scottish players are among the 40 nominations for Uefa's team of the year poll but three Welshmen make the cut: Joe Allen, Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey. Now in its

16th year, the online poll asks fans to pick their formation and team from a list of four goalkeepers, 12 defenders, 12 midfielders and 12 forwards. As well as the usual suspects from La

Liga, there are 12 Premier League players on the list, including Riyad Mahrez and N'Golo Kanté from the champions, Leicester City, although the France international is now at Chelsea.

Arsenal are the best represented Premier League side with Ramsey, Laurent Koscielny and Alexis Sánchez among those considered by the uefa.com editorial staff to have had a great year for a

European club or national team, which explains the presence of Allen and Ramsey. Real Madrid, however, lead the way with eight nominations, including Cristiano Ronaldo who was named for a

record 13th time. Their Spanish rivals Atlético and Barcelona have five nominations each. In terms of the 18 nationalities represented, France and Spain both have five players nominated

while there are four from the European champions, Portugal. The absence of Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy might disappoint some English fans but it is hard to pick fault with a list that can

find room for only one Brazilian, Neymar, and no space for Germany's Manuel Neuer, widely considered to be the best goalkeeper in the world. Fans can vote for their choices at

en.toty.uefa.com until 3 January, with the final line-up announced on 5 January. UEFA TEAM OF THE YEAR NOMINATIONS GOALKEEPERS Gigi Buffon (Juventus), Keylor Navas (Real Madrid), Jan Oblak

(Atlético Madrid), Rui Patricio (Sporting). DEFENDERS Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur), Jérôme Boateng (Bayern Munich), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid), Diego

Godin (Atlético Madrid), Raphael Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund), Juanfran (Atlético Madrid), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal), Pepe (Real Madrid), Gerard Piqué

(Barcelona), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid). MIDFIELDERS Joe Allen (Stoke City), Yannick Carrasco (Atlético Madrid), Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City), Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona), N'Golo

Kanté (Chelsea), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Grzegorz Krychowiak (PSG), Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City), Luka Modric (Real Madrid), Dimitri Payet (West Ham United), Paul Pogba (Manchester

United), Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal). FORWARDS Sergio Agüero (Manchester City), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund), Gareth Bale (Real Madrid), Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid),

Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United), Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Neymar (Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Alexis

Sánchez (Arsenal), Luis Suárez (Barcelona).