Samba Gold: the award history

Meet the candidates and know the history of the prize

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2023-10-02 19:23:52

The 2023 Samba Gold Award has already started and you can cast your vote to choose the best Brazilian men and women football athlete playing outside Brazil, as well as the best Brazilian under-20 football athlete from around the world. And if you don’t know the origin of the award, stay here and we’ll tell you everything.

ABOUT 2023 SAMBA GOLD AWARD
++ Meet the award nominees
++ Voting process: how it works
++ The award history
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Discover the history of Samba Gold

Samba Gold was created by Samba Agency (Sambafoot) in 2008 and had former midfielder Kaká as its first winner. In the last three editions, star Neymar Jr. took home the trophy and became the biggest winner in the history of the award, with six wins in total. Thiago Silva occupies second place in the historical ranking, with three awards.

Initially intended exclusively for men’s football, Samba Gold grows every year, and today includes three categories: men, women and Under-20.

At first, the award took into account the performance of the athletes in exclusively European territory. In 2021, it was expanded to all continents and, from that year onwards, players can be playing in any country (including Brazil).

All winners

As mentioned, Neymar is the biggest winner in the men’s Samba Gold category. He has already taken home six awards (2014, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Other winners in the category are: Thiago Silva (2011, 2012 and 2013), Kaká (2008), Luís Fabiano (2009), Maicon (2010 ), Philippe Coutinho (2016), Roberto Firmino (2018) and Alisson (2019).

In the other categories, the winners were: Gio Queiroz and Debinha, in the women’s category, who won in 2021 and 2022, respectively, and Endrick, who won the first award in the under-20 category, last year.

See who the candidates for the Samba Gold Award 2023 are

Last season, striker Neymar, currently at Al Hilal, in Saudi Arabia, was the champion, for the sixth time, in the men’s category. In the female category, Debinha, from Kansas City Current, was the most voted. And in the under-20 debut, the promising Endrick, from Palmeiras, was the one who took home the trophy.