New Delhi: Legendary Italian goal-keeper Gianluigi Buffon found himself out of the 2015 Ballon d'Or 59-player longlist, which was apparently leaked on Friday.


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The official document is not to be released until next week, but the leaked list, obtained by Mundo Deportivo, has 59 names with regulars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo among the shortlisted players.


But strangely, Buffon has failed to make the cut, even as Arsenal's David Ospina found himself in the list. Besides Buffon, who helped Juventus reached the UEFA Champions League final, England and Manchester City goalie Joe Hart's also failed to earn a place in the list.


Manchester City’s David Silva, Real Madrid’s Raphael Varane, Chelsea’s Nemanja Matic, Bayern Munich’s Philipp Lahm and Douglas Costa, Barcelona’s Sergio Busquets and Arda Turan, and Borussia Dortmund's Marco Reus also missed the cut surprisingly.


But Bournemouth’s Ghanaian midfielder Christian Atsu and Australian Massimo Luongo, who spent last season at League One outfit Swindon Town, have found themselves in the list to vie for the best player in the world.


The awards ceremony will take place in January of next year, and the list will be pruned to 23-man in December.


The annual football award given to male players by the game's world governing body FIFA , is regarded as the highest individual award. National team coaches and captains, as well as journalists from around the world vote to select player, considering the best performances from the previous calendar year.


The award has been dominated by Messi and Ronaldo, with the Argentine winning it for three successive years in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Portuguese Ronaldo won it in 2013 and 2014.


Here's the complete list:


Claudio Bravo – Barcelona


Javier Mascherano – Barcelona


Andres Iniesta – Barcelona


Lionel Messi – Barcelona


Ivan Rakitic – Barcelona


Neymar – Barcelona


Luis Suarez – Barcelona


Gareth Bale – Real Madrid


Karim Benzema – Real Madrid


Sergio Ramos – Real Madrid


Cristiano Ronaldo – Real Madrid


Luka Modric – Real Madrid


James Rodriguez – Real Madrid


Toni Kroos – Real Madrid


Giorgio Chiellini – Juventus


Paul Pogba – Juventus


Alvaro Morata – Juventus


Arturo Vidal – Juventus/Bayern Munich


Andrea Pirlo – Juventus/New York City FC


Carlos Tevez – Juventus/Boca Juniors


Robert Lewandowski – Bayern


Arjen Robben – Bayern


David Alaba – Bayern


Thomas Muller – Bayern


Manuel Neuer – Bayern


Wilfried Bony – Manchester City


Yaya Toure – Manchester City


Sergio Aguero – Manchester City


Nicolas Otamendi – Valencia/Manchester City


Kevin De Bruyne – Wolfsburg/Manchester City


Diego Costa – Chelsea


Willian – Chelsea


Thibaut Courtois – Chelsea


Eden Hazard – Chelsea


Edinson Cavani – Paris Saint-Germain


Zlatan Ibrahimovic – PSG


Javier Pastore – PSG


Wayne Rooney – Manchester United


David de Gea – Manchester United


Memphis Depay – PSV/Manchester United


David Ospina – Arsenal


Alexis Sanchez – Arsenal


Antoine Griezmann – Atletico Madrid


Jackson Martínez – Porto/Atletico


Carlos Bacca – Sevilla/Milan


Giovani dos Santos – Villarreal/LA Galaxy


Philippe Coutinho – Liverpool


Son Heung-min – Bayer Leverkusen/Tottenham


Christian Atsu – Everton/Bournemouth


Paolo Guerrero – Flamengo/Corinthians


Eduardo Vargas – QPR/Hoffenheim


Gary Medel – Inter Milan


Harry Kane – Tottenham Hotspur


Alexandre Lacazette – Lyon


Andres Guardado – PSV


Carlos Sanchez – River Plate


Andre Ayew – Marseille/Swansea


Massimo Luongo – Swindon/QPR


Shinji Okazaki – Mainz/Leicester