FIFA has introduced the contenders for the 2025 Puskas and Marta Awards, bestowed upon the scorer of essentially the most lovely purpose notched in each males’s and ladies’s soccer, respectively, between Aug. 11, 2024, and Aug. 2, 2025 (inclusive) and a part of The Finest FIFA Soccer Awards gala held in Switzerland each January.
The Puskas Award had beforehand encompassed lovely targets scored by anybody, anyplace in each males’s and ladies’s soccer (with the one stipulation being that the purpose will need to have been scored on digital camera), however 2024 noticed the launch of the inaugural Marta Award, which the eponymous Brazilian icon then went and received herself.
Certainly, Marta is as soon as once more on the brief checklist for her personal award this 12 months, with the winners of the 2 awards decided by an equal break up between the fan votes and people solid by an in-house panel of FIFA specialists.
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The shortlisted targets have all been chosen by FIFA and are plucked from a various array of competitions world wide, each home and worldwide.
Final 12 months’s Puskas Award was claimed by then-Manchester United ahead Alejandro Garnacho for his bicycle kick in opposition to Everton, with 5 of the previous eight awards being received by targets scored within the English Premier League. Nevertheless, earlier current winners have additionally hailed from the Brazilian second tier, the Malaysian Tremendous League and even Polish Amputee soccer.
There are some massive names on each shortlists for 2025 with Lamine Yamal and Declan Rice vying for the boys’s award, whereas Vivianne Miedema, Mariona Caldentey and Marta are in with a shout of taking the ladies’s prize.
With out additional ado, here’s a checklist of the 11 contenders on the 2025 Puskas Award shortlist for the boys, offered in alphabetical order.
Alerrandro | Vitoria vs. Cruzeiro | Aug. 19, 2024
With Vitoria already a purpose forward in opposition to Brazilian Serie A rivals Cruzeiro, Alerrandro was in a position to adapt rapidly to {a partially} cut-out cross, spin on his heels and discover the far prime nook with a superb improvised overhead volley.
Alessandro Deiola | Cagliari vs. Venezia | Might 18, 2025
Cagliari have been in a position to play their manner out of the nook with a fast, intelligent interlaced passing maneuver completed with aplomb by Deiola, who despatched an ideal curling end previous the Venezia goalkeeper from an acute angle to spherical off a 3-0 victory.
Pedro de la Vega | Seattle Sounders vs. Cruz Azul | July 31, 2025
The Sounders thrashed Cruz Azul within the 2025 Leagues Cup, with the purpose of the sport being De la Vega’s outrageous first-time volley from the sting of the field that he skillfully guided past the stranded goalkeeper.
Santiago Montiel | Independiente vs. Independiente Rivadavia | Might 11, 2025
Montiel scored the one purpose of the sport to win this Argentine Apertura conflict for Independiente, and in some model through an unlimited 25-yard overhead kick that sailed again over the goalkeeper and despatched the stadium into raptures.
Amr Nasser | Pharco vs. Al Ahly | April 17, 2025
Pharco striker Amr Nasser pulled off a lightning-fast bicycle kick to search out the web in opposition to Al Ahly within the Egyptian Capital Cup.
Carlos Orrantía | Atlas vs. Querétaro | April 16, 2025
Orrantia opened the scoring for Atlas in what proved to be a 2-1 victory over Queretaro within the Mexican Clausura again in April. After the goalkeeper had solely partially cleared a looping cross, the fullback skillfully juggled his well beyond a defender earlier than sending an ideal volley into the highest nook.
Declan Rice | Arsenal vs. Actual Madrid | April 8, 2025
Maybe essentially the most high-profile purpose on the boys’s shortlist belongs to Rice, whose sumptuously struck free kick in opposition to Actual Madrid within the quarterfinals of final season’s Champions League is among the many favorites to assert the Award.
Lucas Ribeiro | Mamelodi Sundowns v. Borussia Dortmund | June 21, 2025
The primary purpose in what transpired to be a vigorous 4-3 defeat for the Sundowns on the Membership World Cup, Ribeiro obtained issues up and operating after selecting up possession in his personal half and launched into a robust, direct cost up the middle of the pitch, outpacing a number of Dortmund defenders earlier than drumming a exact end previous the goalkeeper.
Rizky Ridho | Persija Jakarta v. Arema | March 9, 2025
With a run that began on his personal purpose line, Persija captain Ridho sprinted up the touchline to latch onto a move earlier than recognizing Arema goalkeeper out of place and sending a shot over his head from the midway line.
Kévin Rodrigues | Kasimpasa v. Rizespor | Feb. 9, 2025
With the primary purpose of the sport in a 3-2 Turkish Tremendous Lig win for Kasimpasa, Rodrigues discovered himself instantly beneath a headed clearance which he duly volleyed again into the far prime nook from 25 yards out.
Lamine Yamal | Barcelona vs. Espanyol | Might 15, 2025
Yamal put Barcelona on the street to a simple 2-0 win over native rivals Espanyol, chopping in from the proper flank and bending an unstoppable end into the highest nook.
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And listed here are 11 contenders on the 2025 Marta Award shortlist for the ladies, additionally offered in alphabetical order.
Jordyn Bugg | Seattle Reign vs. North Carolina Braveness | March 22, 2025
Heart again Bugg notched what proved to be the profitable purpose in a 2-1 victory for the Reign when she collected a excessive defensive clearance, managed it completely after which torpedoed a long-range strike into the highest nook from 30 yards.
Mariona Caldentey | Arsenal vs. OL Lyonnes | April 27, 2025
With halftime looming within the Ladies’s Champions League semifinals, Arsenal star Caldentey doubled the membership’s lead with a superbly judged long-range effort. The Gunners would go on to win 4-1 in opposition to Lyon to wrap up a 5-3 mixture victory, earlier than going onto profitable the match outright in opposition to Barcelona.
Ashley Cheatley | Brentford vs. Ascot United | Nov. 3, 2024
The Ladies’s FA Cup tie was graced by an exquisite virtuoso volley from Cheatley, who needed to juggle her manner out of a clumsy place, flick it over the top of her marker after which rating from eight yards with an acrobatic end.
Kyra Cooney-Cross | Australia vs. Germany | Oct. 28, 2024
Australia got here from behind and mustered a shock 2-1 win over Germany in a global pleasant as Cooney-Cross set the tone for the upset by equalizing with a mammoth lob from 50 yards out.
Jon Ryong-jong | Korea DPR vs. Argentina | Sept. 2, 2024
North Korea trounced Argentina 6-2 within the group stage of the Ladies’s U20 World Cup with Ryong-jong registering the very best purpose of the rout simply 10 minutes in with this 25-yard strike.
Marta | Orlando Pleasure vs. Kansas Metropolis Present | Nov. 17, 2024
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Marta reacts to epic solo purpose in NWSL playoff semifinals
Marta speaks after her purpose helped Orlando Pleasure defeat KC Present within the NWSL playoff semifinals.
Aiming for her second Marta Award in succession, the 39-year-old Brazilian veteran is in with a powerful shout due to this solo effort in opposition to the Present, through which she sprinted into the world, feinted previous two defenders, then the goalkeeper earlier than nonchalantly rolling the ball into an empty internet.
Vivianne Miedema | Netherlands vs. Wales | July 5, 2025
Miedema scored her one hundredth worldwide purpose for Netherlands with a becoming flourish in opposition to Wales, nimbly rolling the ball onto her left, then rolling it again onto her proper to flummox the protection earlier than hitting the web with an arching strike from 20 yards out.
Kishi Núñez | Argentina vs. Costa Rica | Sept. 8, 2024
One other one from the group stage of the Ladies’s U20 World Cup noticed Nunez wriggle away from a small cluster of Costa Rica defenders earlier than launching an excellent long-range end from 40 yards out.
Lizbeth Ovalle | Tigres vs. Guadalajara | March 3, 2025
It is little shock that Ovalle went viral along with her creative airborne volley in opposition to Guadalajara within the Mexican Liga MX Femenil due to an unorthodox method that was subsequently dubbed “The Shrimp” — for apparent causes.
Ally Sentnor | USA vs. Colombia | Feb. 20, 2025
The USWNT beat Colombia 2-0 in its opening recreation on the 2025 SheBelieves Cup with the decisive purpose coming from Sentnor, who darted right into a pocket of area earlier than smashing a robust shot into the highest nook from distance.
Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw | Manchester Metropolis vs. Hammarby | Nov. 21, 2024
Shaw grew to become Metropolis’s all-time prime purpose scorer within the Champions League with two targets in a 2-1 win in opposition to Hammarby. After a surging dribble from Jess Park noticed Metropolis advance, Shaw took possession on the sting of the world, minimize away from her marker and rocketed a shot into the highest nook.
