The FIFA Puskás Award is an award established on 20 October 2009 by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in order to award the player, male or female, judged to have scored the most aesthetically significant, or "most beautiful", goal of the year. The criteria include:
It should be a beautiful goal (subjective — the spread of goals should include long-range shots, team goals, overhead kicks, individual plays, etc.).
The award should be awarded "without distinction of championship, gender or nationality". [1]
The goal should not be the result of luck, mistakes or a deflection by a teammate or the other team.
The goal should support fair play, i.e. the player should not have behaved badly in the game or have been charged with doping, for example.