Who won the Puskas Award 2025? Winner, nominees for FIFA best goal trophy and Marta award for best women's goal

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The Puskas Award has long been one of the most intriguing and coveted awards given out each year, recognising the most exceptional goals scored around the world of football.

Named for legendary Hungarian goal scorer Ferenc Puskas, the award is given to the individual who scores the best goal over the past year (August 11, 2024 to August 2, 2025).

Because the designation of "best goal" is so open-ended, the Puskas Award selection has brought a wide variety of goals to the public eye each year when the nominees are announced, and significant debate over whose effort is the most impressive.

Prior to 2024, goals from the men's and women's game were both included in the Puskas Award nominations, but since 2024 the Puskas Award is given only to men, while the new Marta Award is handed out to the best goal from women's football.

AllSportsPeople brings you a look at who the nominees for both awards are in 2024 as well as a look back at the winners from past years.

Who won the Puskas Award 2025?

The winner of the 2025 Puskas Award was Santiago Montiel of Independiente whose incredible overhead kick against Independiente Rivadavia in the Argentine top flight put his side 1-0 up in the match.

Montiel is the cousin of Gonzalo Montiel, the River Plate full-back who scored the decisive penalty in Argentina's shootout win over France in the 2022 World Cup final.

2025 Puskas Award nominees

You can watch all 11 nominated goals for the 2025 Puskas Award here.

NomineeTeamCompetitionMatch
AlerrandroVitoriaBrasileiro Serie Avs. Cruzeiro; Aug. 19, 2024
Alessandro DeiolaCagliariSerie Avs. Venezia; May 18
Pedro de la VegaCruz AzulCONCACAF Leagues Cupvs. Seattle Sounders; July 31
Santiago MontielIndependienteArgentine Primera Divisionvs. Independiente Rivadavia; July 31
Amr NasserPharcoEgypt Capital Cupvs. Al Ahly; April 17
Carlos OrrantiaAtlasLiga MXvs. Queretaro; April 16
Lucas RibeiroMamelodi SundownsFIFA Club World Cupvs. Borussia Dortmund; June 21
Declan RiceArsenalUEFA Champions Leaguevs. Real Madrid; April 8
Rizky RidhoPersija JakartaIndonesian Liga 1vs. Arema; March 9
Kevin RodriguesKasimpasaTurkish Super Ligavs. Rizespor; February 9
Lamine YamalBarcelonaLa Ligavs. Espanyol; May 15

All-time winners of Puskas Award

The Puskas Award is given to the male player who scored the best goal of the qualifying period (for the latest prize, that period ran from August 11, 2024 to August 2, 2025). Unlike the other Best awards, the Puskas Award has been handed out since 2009, originally created as its own standalone award given out each year by FIFA before being absorbed into The Best proceedings.

The award is named after Ferenc Puskas, a legendary Hungarian forward who is regarded as one of the greatest goal scorers of all time.

The first winner was none other than Cristiano Ronaldo, with the likes of Neymar, James Rodriguez, and Mohamed Salah some of the other recognizable names on the list of previous award winners.

YearPlayerTeamMatch (Goal)
2025Santiago MontielIndependientevs. Independiente Rivadavia
2024Alejandro GarnachoMan Unitedvs. Everton (1-0)
2023Guilherme MadrugaBotafogovs. Novorizontino (1-0)
2022Marcin OleksyWarta Poznanvs. Stal Rzeszow 
2021Erik LamelaTottenhamvs. Arsenal (1-0)
2020Son Heung-MinTottenhamvs. Burnley (3-0)
2019Daniel ZsoriDebrecenvs. Ferencvaros (2-1)
2018Mohamed SalahLiverpoolvs. Everton (1-0)
2017Oliver GiroudArsenalvs. Crystal Palace (1-0)
2016Mohd Faiz SubriPenangvs. Pahang (4-1)
2015Wendell LiraGoianesiavs. Atletico Goianiense (1-0)
2014James RodriguezColombiavs. Uruguay (1-0)
2013Zlatan IbrahimovicSwedenvs. England (4-2)
2012Miroslav StochFenerbahcevs. Genclerbirligi (6-1)
2011NeymarSantosvs. Flamengo (4-5)
2010Hamit AltintopTurkeyvs. Kazakhstan (2-0)
2009Cristiano RonaldoMan Unitedvs. Porto (1-0)

Who won the Marta Award 2025?

The 2025 Marta Award was given to Lizbeth Ovalle, the Mexico star who signed for Orlando Pride from Tigres UANL in a world-record fee in August.

The winning goal saw Ovalle produce a remarkable scorpion-kick finish from Jenni Hermoso's cross against Guadalajara in a Liga MX Femenil match in March.

2025 Marta Award nominees

You can watch all 11 nominated goals for the 2025 Marta Award here.

NomineeTeamCompetitionMatch
Jordyn BuggSeattle ReignNWSLvs. NC Courage; March 22
Mariona CaldenteyArsenalUEFA Women's Champions Leaguevs. Lyon; April 27
Ashley CheatleyBrentfordWomen's FA Cupvs. Ascot United; November 3
Kyra Cooney-CrossAustraliaInternational Friendlyvs. Germany; October 28, 2024
Jon Ryong-jongNorth KoreaFIFA U-20 Women's World Cupvs. Argentina; September 2, 2024
MartaOrlando PrideNWSLvs. KC Current; November 17
Vivianne MiedemaNetherlandsUEFA Women's European Championshipvs. Wales; July 5
Kishi NunezArgentinaFIFA U-20 Women's World Cupvs. Costa Rica; September 8
Lizbeth OvalleTigresLiga MX Femenilvs. Guadalajara; March 3
Ally SentnorUSASheBelieves Cupvs. Colombia; February 20
Khadija ShawMan CityUEFA Women's Champions Leaguevs. Hammarby; November 2

All-time winners of Marta Award

The Marta Award was created in 2024 to honour female players with a separate prize for the best goal scored over the 12-month qualifying period (for the latest prize, that period ran from August 11, 2024 to August 2, 2025).

The prize is named after Brazil great Marta, who won the inaugural prize for a goal scored against Jamaica in 2024.

YearPlayerTeamMatch (Goal)
2025Lizbeth OvalleTigresvs. Guadalajara (2-0)
2024MartaBrazilvs. Jamaica (4-0)
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