BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017: Vote for one of five chosen people

Five players have been shortlisted for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 honor and voting is currently open.

Tap on the candidates' names beneath to see their full player profiles:

Melanie Behringer (Bayern Munich and previous Germany midfielder)

Ada Hegerberg (Olympique Lyonnais and Norway striker)

Hedvig Lindahl (Chelsea and Sweden goalkeeper)

Marta (Orlando Pride and Brazil forward)

Christine Sinclair (Portland Thorns and Canada forward)

You can vote in favor of your most loved online The champ of the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2017 will be declared by the BBC World Service and online at bbc.com/womensfootball on Tuesday 30 May 2017.

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Here we take a gander at the five contenders competing for the BBC World Service respect, which is in its third year.

Melanie Behringer

Nation: Germany Caps: 123 Goals: 34

Club: Bayern Munich Position: Midfielder Age: 31

Behringer won Olympic gold with Germany at Rio 2016, completing as the competition's driving goalscorer with five objectives and finishing her arrangement of each bit of significant global flatware.

She finished her 11-year Germany profession with that triumph, having effectively won the 2007 World Cup and the 2009 and 2013 European Championship.

She helped her German club Bayern Munich secure consecutive Bundesliga titles in 2016 and was designated for the Fifa World Player of the Year grant 2016.

Perused a full profile of Behringer here.

Ada Hegerberg

Nation: Norway Caps: 61 Goals: 38

Club: Olympique Lyonnais Position: Forward Age: 21

Hegerberg was a piece of the Olympique Lyonnais treble-winning side in 2015-16, asserting the French Division 1 group title, Coupe de France and Champions League.

She was best scorer in the French group (33) and Women's Champions League (13) that season. She scored more objectives (18) than Real Madrid and Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo (17) in Uefa rivalries in the timetable year of 2016.

Voted Uefa Best Women's Player in Europe for 2016, she additionally turned into the main lady in 20 years to win Norway's Golden Ball grant for the nation's best footballer.

Perused a full profile of Hegerberg here.

Hedvig Lindahl

Nation: Sweden Caps: 136 Goals: 0

Club: Chelsea Position: Goalkeeper Age: 34

Lindahl was the legend in two punishment shootouts for Sweden at the Rio 2016 Olympics, helping her group win the silver award.

She joined Chelsea Ladies from Swedish side Kristianstads DFF in December 2014 and shone in her initially season there, winning the Women's Super League title and the FA Women's Cup. An ever-exhibit in the WSL in 2015, she yielded the least objectives in the division (10).

Lindahl has been named Swedish Women's Goalkeeper of the Year on five separate events and played for her nation at three World Cups, three Olympic Games and a few European Championships.

Perused a full profile of Lindahl here.

Marta

Nation: Brazil Caps: 116 Goals: 108

Club: Orlando Pride Position: Forward Age: 31

Marta is apparently the most celebrated female footballer of the most recent 20 years, having won Fifa's World Player of the Year grant five times in succession in the vicinity of 2006 and 2010.

For the Brazil forward, 2016 will emerge as the year she drove out her nation at her home Olympics in Rio. One of eight Olympic banner bearers at the opening function, she likewise helped her side complete fourth in the competition.

Marta, who champions ladies' football over the globe through her ambassadorial work, left Swedish side FC Rosengard in April to join the as of late made Orlando Pride in the United States.

Perused a full profile of Marta here.

Christine Sinclair

Nation: Canada Caps: 257 Goals: 167

Club: Portland Thorns Position: Forward Age: 33

Sinclair roused Canada to a moment progressive Olympic bronze decoration, scoring the second objective against hosts Brazil in the bronze award coordinate at Rio 2016.

Under her captaincy, Canada came to their most astounding ever Fifa positioning of fourth, while her National Women's Soccer League club side Portland Thorns beat the table after the general season in the United States, to assert the NWSL Shield.

She is second on the unequaled rundown of ladies' global goalscorers with 167 universal objectives, outperforming her saint and previous USA forward Mia Hamm's count of 158 a year ago and crawling nearer to ex-USA worldwide Abby Wambach's record of 184.