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 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.).[source?]
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.[source?]
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.[source?]
The player cannot be nominated with two different goals.[source?]
