The Best FIFA Women's Player is a football award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA, since 2016, to honour the player deemed to have performed the best over the previous calendar year.

[1] From 2001 to 2015, the award was known as the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year.

The selection criteria for the players of the year are: sporting performance, as well as general conduct on and off the pitch.

At the 2017 awards, 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Bronze Ball and Bronze Shoe winner and amateur club player Deyna Castellanos was nominated.

Professional players Megan Rapinoe and Sam Kerr criticized the nomination.