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Purpose: To develop a risk‐prediction nomogram based on baseline variables for good functional response during the 1st year of treatment with anti‐VEGF agents in naive diabetic macular oedema (DME). Methods: This retrospective study included patients presenting naive‐DME treated with anti‐VEGF therapy at Dijon University Hospital (France) between 1 February 2012 and 31 March 2015 (derivation cohort). We studied baseline variables that had significant associations with a good functional response to anti‐VEGF agents during the 1st year of treatment. We used a program to generate a nomogram based on a binary logistic regression predictive model. Then, this nomogram was tested on data from a separate cohort of naive‐DME patients from a multicenter study involving 20 French ophthalmologic centres between January 2014 and June 2015 (validation cohort). Results: Age, baseline BCVA and ellipsoid zone integrity on spectral‐domain optical coherence tomography (SD‐OCT) are functional prognostic factors and were used to build a nomogram. The nomogram showed excellent discrimination for good functional responders (area under the curve (AUC) = 0.906, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) = [0.849–0.964], p = 0.004). The discriminative power of this nomogram was tested on the validation cohort data, demonstrating good discrimination of good functional responders (AUC = 0.942, 95% CI = [0.898–0.986], p < 0.001). Conclusion: This nomogram provides a useful estimation of a good functional response in naive‐DME patients treated with anti‐VEGF agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]