Ellis Statham
The Puskas award is granted to the player deemed to have scored the "most beautiful" goal in a calendar year.
Cristiano Ronaldo was the winner of the inaugural Puskas award, thanks to his long-range strike against Porto in the 2008/09 UEFA Champions League term.
While Lionel Messi was amongst the contenders on numerous occasions, he was unable to clinch the award, though former Barcelona teammate Neymar was granted the award in 2011.
Alejandro Garnacho is the most recent winner of the prestigious prize, and we take a look at all 16 players players to have won the Puskas award since it's initiation.
Football
Puskas award winners
- Cristiano Ronaldo (2009)
- Hamit Altıntop (2010)
- Neymar (2011)
- Miroslav Stoch (2012)
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic (2013)
- James Rodriguez (2014)
- Wendell Lira (2015)
- Mohd Faiz Subri (2016)
- Olivier Giroud (2017)
- Mohamed Salah (2018)
- Dániel Zsóri (2019)
- Son Heung-min (2020)
- Erik Lamela (2021)
- Marcin Oleksy (2022)
- Guilherme Madruga (2023)
- Alejandro Garnacho (2024)
