FIFA Puskás Award

The **FIFA Puskás Award**  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. This was changed after a controversy with the 2018 edition of the award, 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".
- 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

|Year|Rank|Player|Team Scored For|Team Scored Against|Vote Percentage||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2009**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Cristiano Ronaldo**|**Manchester United**|**Porto**|align="center"|**17.68%**|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Andrés Iniesta|Barcelona|Chelsea|align="center"|15.64%|||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Grafite|VfL Wolfsburg|Bayern Munich|align="center"|13.39%|||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2010**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Hamit Altıntop**|****|****|align="center"|**40.55%**|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Linus Hallenius|Hammarby IF|Syrianska FC|align="center"|13.23%|||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Giovanni van Bronckhorst|||align="center"|10.61%|||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2011**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Neymar**|**Santos**|**Flamengo**|rowspan="3" align="center"|N/A|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Lionel Messi|Barcelona|Arsenal|||||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Wayne Rooney|Manchester United|Manchester City|||||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2012**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Miroslav Stoch**|**Fenerbahçe**|**Gençlerbirliği**|align="center"|**78%**|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Radamel Falcao|Atlético Madrid|América de Cali|align="center"|15%|||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Neymar|Santos|Internacional|align="center"|7%|||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2013**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Zlatan Ibrahimović**|****|****|align="center"|**48.7%**|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Nemanja Matić|Benfica|Porto|align="center"|30.8%|||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Neymar|||align="center"|20.5%|||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2014**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**James Rodríguez**|****|****|align="center"|**42%**|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Stephanie Roche|Peamount United|Wexford Youths|align="center"|33%|||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Robin van Persie|||align="center"|11%|||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2015**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Wendell Lira**|**Goianésia**|**Atlético Goianiense**|align="center"|**46.7%**|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Lionel Messi|Barcelona|Athletic Bilbao|align="center"|33.3%|||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Alessandro Florenzi|Roma|Barcelona|align="center"|7.1%|||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2016**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Mohd Faiz Subri**|**Penang**|**Pahang**|align="center"|**59.46%**|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Marlone|Corinthians|Cobresal|align="center"|22.86%|||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Daniuska Rodríguez|||align="center"|10.01%|||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2017**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Olivier Giroud**|**Arsenal**|**Crystal Palace**|align="center"|**36.17%**|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Oscarine Masuluke|Baroka|Orlando Pirates|align="center"|27.48%|||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Deyna Castellanos|||align="center"|20.47%|||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2018**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Mohamed Salah**|**Liverpool**|**Everton**|align="center"|**38%**|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Cristiano Ronaldo|Real Madrid|Juventus|align="center"|22%|||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Giorgian de Arrascaeta|Cruzeiro|América Mineiro|align="center"|17%|||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2019**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Dániel Zsóri**|**Debrecen**|**Ferencváros**|rowspan="3" align="center"|N/A|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Lionel Messi|Barcelona|Real Betis|||||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Juan Fernando Quintero|River Plate|Racing Club|||||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2020**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Son Heung-min**|**Tottenham Hotspur**|**Burnley**|rowspan="3" align="center"|N/A|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Giorgian de Arrascaeta|Flamengo|Ceará|||||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Luis Suárez|Barcelona|Mallorca|||||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2021**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Erik Lamela**|**Tottenham Hotspur**|**Arsenal**|rowspan="3" align="center"|N/A|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Mehdi Taremi|Porto|Chelsea|||||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Patrik Schick|||||||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2022**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Marcin Oleksy**|**Warta Poznań**|**Stal Rzeszów**|rowspan="3" align="center"|N/A|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Dimitri Payet|Marseille|PAOK|||||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Richarlison|||||||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2023**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Guilherme Madruga**|**Botafogo-SP**|**Novorizontino**|rowspan="3" align="center"|N/A|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Nuno Santos|Sporting CP|Boavista|||||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Julio Enciso|Brighton & Hove Albion|Manchester City|||||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2024**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Alejandro Garnacho**|**Manchester United**|**Everton**|rowspan="3" align="center"|N/A|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Yassine Benzia|||||||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Denis Omedi|Kitara|KCCA|||||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2025**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**|**Santiago Montiel**|**Independiente**|**Independiente Rivadavia**|rowspan="3" align="center"|N/A|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd|Declan Rice|Arsenal|Real Madrid|||||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd|Lamine Yamal|Barcelona|Espanyol|||||
|rowspan="3" align="center"|**2026**|scope="col" style="background-color:gold"|**1st**||||rowspan="3" align="center"|TBD|
|scope="col" style="background-color:silver"|2nd||||||||
|scope="col" style="background-color:#cc9966"|3rd||||||||

## Awards won by nationality

|Country|Wins|Years||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
||align="center"||2011, 2015, 2023|
||align="center"||2021, 2024|
||align="center"||2009|
||align="center"||2010|
||align="center"||2012|
||align="center"||2013|
||align="center"||2014|
||align="center"||2016|
||align="center"||2017|
||align="center"||2018|
||align="center"||2019|
||align="center"||2020|
||align="center"||2022|