FIFA Puskás Award
The FIFA Puskás Award [ˈpuʃkaːʃ] is an association football award that is organized by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The award was created in 2009, in order to award the male or female judged to have scored the most aesthetically significant, or "most beautiful", goal of a year. The Puskás award is announced yearly and is decided by voting.
The award is named after former Real Madrid striker Ferenc Puskás. Puskás played during the 1950s and 1960s, and was part of the Hungarian "golden team".
The voting was done by fans of the sport until 2018 on FIFA's official website.[1] This was changed after a controversy with the 2018 edition of the award,[2] and is now decided by pundits selected by FIFA.
Award criteria
- It should be an "absolutely beautiful goal" (subjective, but decided by voting and judgement from experts — the spread of goals should include long-range shots, team goals, rabona, overhead kicks, individual plays, scorpion kicks, etc.).
- It should be awarded "without distinction of championship, gender or nationality".[3]
- It should not be the result of luck, mistakes, deflection by another player or the player in an offside position.
- It should support fair play, i.e. the player should not have behaved badly in the game or have been charged with doping, for example.
- The player cannot be nominated with two different goals.
Winners
Awards won by nationality
| Country | Wins | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 3 | 2011, 2015, 2023 |
| Argentina | 2 | 2021, 2024 |
| Portugal | 1 | 2009 |
| Turkey | 1 | 2010 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 2012 |
| Sweden | 1 | 2013 |
| Colombia | 1 | 2014 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 2016 |
| France | 1 | 2017 |
| Egypt | 1 | 2018 |
| Hungary | 1 | 2019 |
| South Korea | 1 | 2020 |
| Poland | 1 | 2022 |
Notes
- ↑ Ronaldo was signed by Real Madrid midway through 2009.
- ↑ Lira was signed by Tombense midway through 2015. He was later signed by Vila Nova prior to winning the award.
- ↑ Ronaldo was signed by Juventus midway through 2018.
- ↑ Zsóri was signed by Fehérvár midway through 2019.
- ↑ Suárez was signed by Atlético Madrid midway through 2020.
- ↑ Lamela was signed by Sevilla midway through 2021.
- ↑ Madruga was at Botafogo-SP, on loan from Desportivo Brasil
References
- ↑ Pranav_14 (24 November 2015). "Selection process for the Puskas Award". Sportskeeda. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Mo Salah wins Fifa Puskas Award for best goal - but was it really better than Ronaldo and Bale's overhead kicks?". The National. 25 September 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ↑ "Rules of Allocation" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 January 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2015.