BBC Goal of the Month
Monthly segment on BBC's Match of the Day television programme, in honour of the best goal scored each month.
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BBC Goal of the Season
Annual competition and award given on BBC's Match of the Day, in honour of the most spectacular goal scored that season.
It is typically contested between the winners of the preceding ten Goals of the Month, although the goal can and has come from any game in the regular season, including international qualifiers and friendlies—potentially from the opening league games of the season to the end of the European season UEFA Champions League final.
Tony Yeboah
Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
He is considered one of the most prominent and prolific goal scorers in Ghanaian and African football history and gained a reputation for scoring spectacular goals which often featured in Goal of the Month or Goal of the Season competitions, often celebrated by wagging his index finger towards the crowd.
Gareth Bale
Welsh professional footballer who plays as a winger for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Wales national team.
This was later awarded the BBC Goal of the Month for August 2010.
Dennis Bergkamp
Dutch professional football coach and former player.
Bergkamp also achieved a unique feat in being voted first, second and third on Match of the Day's Goal of the Month competition in August 1997.
Craig Bellamy
Welsh former professional footballer who played as a forward.
His first goal was a 20 yard strike from the edge of the 18 yard box which was later named Goal of the Month for September 2009.
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers, also known simply as the Manics, are a Welsh rock band formed in Blackwood in 1986.
18) in July, which was also the background music to the BBC's Match of the Day's 'Goal of the Month' competition, and then "An English Gentleman" (No.
Eric Cantona
French actor, director, producer, and former professional footballer.
BBC Sport Goal of the Month: February 1994, December 1996
Tuncay Şanlı
Turkish former footballer and currently the manager of the Turkish club Sakaryaspor.
His third, in a 1–0 victory over Derby County, was a superb volley from a Stewart Downing cross which won the BBC Match of the Day Goal of the Month award for December 2007, and was later nominated for Goal of the Season.
Keith Gillespie
Northern Irish former professional footballer who plays as a winger for FC Mindwell in the Mid-Ulster Football League.
This goal was also a nominee for the December Goal of the Month competition, which Paul Scholes eventually won.
Ruud van Nistelrooy
Dutch professional football coach and former player.
BBC Goal of the Month: March 2003