Puskas Award Voting Result: How FIFA Reports the Outcome
The puskas award voting result for 2025 combined fan votes and FIFA Legends’ votes equally, and FIFA announced Santiago Montiel as winner. FIFA said the winner would be announced in a digital video on its platforms and social media before the gala dinner; the awards event was scheduled for 16 December 2025. FIFA published a voting breakdown that included nominees’ points totals.
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How the 2025 result was decided
The 2025 Puskás Award was not described as a fan-only outcome. FIFA said the fan vote and the votes of FIFA Legends were split equally. That is the central distinction when interpreting the result: fan participation formed one part of the stated decision method, while a Legends panel formed the other. A fan ranking alone therefore cannot be treated as the award’s final combined outcome.
FIFA announced Santiago Montiel as the winner for an overhead kick goal in Argentina’s Primera División. This identifies the winning player and the goal connected with the award, but it does not by itself show how any individual voter acted or how every nominee placed. A winner announcement and a detailed breakdown serve different purposes.
The 2025 voting breakdown included points totals for nominees. A points total is a published result measure; it is not automatically the same thing as a raw count of individual fan submissions. The available description does not provide a complete account of every calculation step, so readers should not translate points into a number of fans without a stated method.
- Fans supplied one half of the stated vote weighting.
- FIFA Legends supplied the other half of the stated vote weighting.
- FIFA identified Montiel and his goal as the winning entry.
Announcement timing and the official result
FIFA said the 2025 winner would be announced in a digital video on FIFA platforms and social media before the gala dinner. The awards event itself was scheduled for 16 December 2025 in Doha, Qatar. The distinction matters: the published schedule identifies the event date, while the winner announcement was described as occurring beforehand through video and social channels.
The 2025 date is an edition-specific fact, not a reliable annual timetable. Nothing in that schedule establishes when a future winner will be announced. For a later year, the organiser’s announcement for that edition is the appropriate source for timing; a past date should not be carried forward as if it were permanent.
A result announcement answers who won. A voting breakdown can answer a different question by presenting points or other reported totals. FIFA’s available 2025 description says the breakdown included nominee points totals, but does not state in the material summarized here that it gives every fan’s individual submission or a complete fan-only count.
What the count and ranking can show
A puskas award vote count can mean different things depending on the table and its labels. FIFA’s 2025 description confirms nominee points totals in a voting breakdown. It does not, on its own, establish a raw tally of fan submissions or explain how a points total maps onto individual fan choices. The label attached to a published figure matters more than an assumed meaning.
A puskas award voting ranking is also edition-specific. A list ordered by points would reflect the measure shown in that particular report, but the information available here does not establish a complete 2025 rank order. It would be inaccurate to invent placements for nominees who are not named in the confirmed result information.
The phrase puskas award 2025 vote results can refer to the announced winner, the points breakdown, or both. These are related records, not interchangeable ones. FIFA announced Montiel as winner and said a breakdown with nominee points totals was published. The description does not supply every total, a raw ballot number, or a complete list of positions.
The puskas award vote standing should therefore be read from the actual edition’s displayed data. A points figure can support comparison only on the terms the organiser publishes. Without a stated scale, total, or calculation explanation, readers cannot safely infer a percentage, margin, or exact fan preference from a name’s position alone.
- A winner announcement identifies the recipient.
- A points breakdown reports the measure FIFA says it contains.
- A raw fan count should not be assumed when the report names points.
Earlier winners and historical context
Cristiano Ronaldo won the first Puskás Award in 2009. That historical anchor answers who won the inaugural award; it does not answer how the 2025 method worked. The award’s first recipient and a later edition’s combined voting arrangement belong to separate points in its history.
The available records also describe selected older voting outcomes. FIFA reported percentages for the three 2016 finalists: Mohd Faiz Subri, Marlone, and Daniuska Rodriguez, alongside an ‘Others’ share. Those percentages are an example of a published result format for that edition. They should not be substituted for 2025 points totals, because the measures and the years differ.
For 2017, FIFA reported 792,062 votes and said Olivier Giroud’s goal received 36.17% of them. That is a specific published total and share for that year. It does not prove that every later edition uses the same reporting format, nor does it establish a direct comparison between 2017 and 2025.
The available examples are not a complete list of previous winners. They establish Ronaldo as the first recipient and provide specific outcome details for selected years, while FIFA’s 2025 announcement names Montiel. A complete historical ranking cannot be reconstructed from these details alone.
Rules, rejected entries, and evidence
Platform rules and disqualification questions cannot be settled by a result headline alone. The confirmed information here explains the 2025 weighting, announcement route, and published breakdown, but it does not specify eligibility checks, rejected submissions, tie handling, or the criteria for invalid entries. Those matters require the rules for the relevant edition rather than guesses based on the winner’s name or points.
A claim that an entry was detected as fake also needs evidence tied to that edition. The confirmed material does not describe FIFA’s detection systems, moderation logs, or individual review decisions. It would be unjustified to say that a particular entry was accepted, removed, or flagged without an organiser statement or record that establishes that result.
The organiser controls the award rules and communicates the official outcome. The voting platform’s mechanics may govern how an interface accepts and records input, but the available facts do not document those mechanics. A reported final result does not expose every internal check, and a public points breakdown is not a substitute for a published rule.
Where an edition’s rules are not stated in the available result information, the limit should remain explicit. Do not infer a disqualification policy from an unexplained points difference, and do not treat a screenshot or an unofficial count as FIFA’s official outcome. The confirmed record here is narrower: the stated weighting, announcement plan, winner, and described breakdown.
- A winner announcement does not reveal all eligibility rules.
- A points breakdown does not establish individual moderation decisions.
- An unsupported claim about a flagged entry remains unverified.
| Edition | Confirmed result information |
|---|---|
| 2009 | Cristiano Ronaldo was the first Puskás Award winner. |
| 2016 | FIFA published percentages for finalists and an Others share. |
| 2017 | FIFA reported 792,062 votes and a 36.17% share for Olivier Giroud’s goal. |
| 2025 | FIFA named Santiago Montiel winner and described equal fan and FIFA Legends weighting. |
Fast answers
How is the Puskas Award winner decided?
For the 2025 Puskás Award, FIFA gave fan votes and FIFA Legends’ votes equal weight. That describes the published method for that edition; it does not establish that every year uses the same arrangement. FIFA’s announcement identifies Santiago Montiel as the 2025 winner, while its voting breakdown provides nominee points totals. The reported outcome is therefore a combined result, not a fan-only ranking.
Who won the first Puskas Award?
Cristiano Ronaldo won the first Puskás Award in 2009. The historical sources identify him as the inaugural recipient; this is separate from FIFA’s announcement of Santiago Montiel as the 2025 winner. The first recipient and the current edition’s winner answer different historical questions, so an all-time list should identify the edition attached to each name.
When will the winner be announced?
FIFA said the 2025 winner would be announced in a digital video on FIFA platforms and social media before the gala dinner. The awards event was scheduled for 16 December 2025. Those details describe the 2025 schedule, not a standing date for future editions; a later announcement date should be taken from FIFA’s information for that edition.
Who are the previous winners?
Cristiano Ronaldo was the inaugural Puskás Award winner in 2009, and FIFA named Santiago Montiel the 2025 winner. These confirmed examples do not make a complete winners list. The available results also include reported vote information for selected editions, but the stated facts here do not enumerate every recipient between those years.
What is the Puskas Award and who decides the winner?
The Puskás Award recognizes a goal, and the 2025 result used votes from fans and FIFA Legends with equal weight. FIFA announces the award result and publishes related breakdown information. That description is limited to the documented 2025 method; it should not be used to infer rules for another edition or to identify an unreported judging procedure.
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