Goal (website)

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Goal
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Web address goal.com
Available in 19 languages
Owner Integrated Media Company (majority)
DAZN Group (minority)
Current status Active

Goal is an international association football news website founded in 2004 by Chicco Merighi and Gianluigi Longinotti-Buitoni.

Goal is published in 19 languages, with 38 national editions and 600 contributors.[1] It is currently owned by Integrated Media Company (IMC), a division of TPG Capital.

History

Goal was acquired by Perform Group in 2011, paying £18 million to the website's investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners.[2][3][4]

In 2012, the website was investigated by HM Revenue and Customs department of the UK government over the use of unpaid interns.[5]

In August 2016, Perform Group launched the online sports video streaming service DAZN. In September 2018 Perform Group was split into two companies: DAZN Group (named after its streaming service) for its consumer content operations, and Perform Content for its business-to-business services. Under this new structure, Goal sat under DAZN.

In March 2019, DAZN re-organized the Perform Media division into DAZN Media, which includes Goal.

In late 2020, Goal, alongside Spox and Voetbalzone were packaged as a new company called FootballCo. Shortly after, a majority stake in FootballCo. was purchased by Integrated Media Company (IMC) which is a division of TPG Capital.[6]

Awards

In 2017, Goal won the Best Sports News Site award at The Drum Online Media Awards.[7]

Goal 50

Footballers Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have won the award a joint-record 5 times.

Since the 2007–08 season, the best 50 players of the respective season are selected by Goal reporters and ranked as part of Goal's "Goal 50."[8] Starting from the 2018–19 season, the 50 players were divided into 25 men and 25 women, with a winner from both genders being crowned.

Men's winners

Season Winner Club(s)
2007–08 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo England Manchester United
2008–09 Argentina Lionel Messi Spain Barcelona
2009–10 Netherlands Wesley Sneijder Italy Internazionale
2010–11 Argentina Lionel Messi Spain Barcelona
2011–12 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo Spain Real Madrid
2012–13 Argentina Lionel Messi Spain Barcelona
2013–14 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo Spain Real Madrid
2014–15 Argentina Lionel Messi Spain Barcelona
2015–16 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo Spain Real Madrid
2016–17 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo Spain Real Madrid
2017–18 Croatia Luka Modrić Spain Real Madrid
2018–19 Netherlands Virgil van Dijk England Liverpool
2019–20 Poland Robert Lewandowski Germany Bayern Munich
2020–21 Argentina Lionel Messi[9] Spain Barcelona

Women's winners

Season Winner Club(s)
2018–19 United States Megan Rapinoe United States Reign FC
2019–20 Denmark Pernille Harder Germany VfL Wolfsburg
England Chelsea
2020–21 Spain Alexia Putellas Spain Barcelona

NXGN

Since the 2015–16 season, Goal has ranked the 50 best players aged under 19 for that respective season, with selections made by Goal's network of journalists. The resulting list is known as the NXGN list, with the first-ranked players receiving the NXGN winner's award.[10]

Since 2020, a women's list and award has also been published and handed out.[11]

Men's winners

Season Winner Club(s)
2015–2016 Belgium Youri Tielemans Belgium Anderlecht
2016–2017 Italy Gianluigi Donnarumma Italy Milan
2017–2018 Netherlands Justin Kluivert Netherlands Ajax
2018–2019 England Jadon Sancho Germany Borussia Dortmund
2019–2020 Brazil Rodrygo Spain Real Madrid
2020–2021 Spain Ansu Fati Spain Barcelona
2021–2022 England Jude Bellingham Germany Borussia Dortmund

Women's winners

Season Winner Club(s)
2019–2020 Germany Lena Oberdorf Germany SGS Essen
2020–2021 Sweden Hanna Bennison Sweden FC Rosengård
2021–2022 Haiti Melchie Dumornay France Stade de Reims

References

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External links

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