Fifa Best 2025: Hannah Hampton and Gianluigi Donnarumma win goalkeeper awards | OneFootball

Hannah Hampton has won the Fifa Best women’s goalkeeper 2025 award, completing a global goalkeeper award double after she received the Ballon d’Or ceremony’s equivalent prize for keepers in September.

Hampton, 25, saved two penalties in the European Championship final as England beat Spain in July. The Fifa Best award for this year takes performances between 11 August 2024 to 2 August 2025 into account, and therefore acknowledges not only Hampton’s shootout heroics but also her helping Chelsea win a domestic treble of major trophies last season.

It comes in a week where Hampton is also on the shortlist for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, which will be announced on Thursday.

Hampton is the sixth different winner of Fifa’s Best women’s goalkeeper award since its inception in 2019, after Sari van Veenendaal, Sarah Bouhaddi in 2020, Christiane Endler in 2021, two-time winner Mary Earps and last year’s winner, Alyssa Naeher of the US.

This year, the Germany goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger, Spain’s Cata Coll and Chile’s Endler had also been nominated for the prize, together with Hampton’s England teammate Anna Moorhouse, who won the NWSL title with Orlando Pride in 2024, plus Brighton and Nigeria’s Chiamaka Nnadozie and Manchester United’s Phallon Tullis-Joyce.

The shortlist was selected by a panel of experts, before women’s national team captains and coaches, football journalists and fans voted on the final winner, with each of those four categories of voter contributing 25% of the overall vote.

The Birmingham-born Hampton thanked those who had voted for her before adding further thanks: “To Sarina [Wiegman] and to Sonia [Bompastor] for the belief in me this year. Both at club and country, we’ve achieved so much and there’s still so much set out for us to go and get.”

Gianni Infantino, the Fifa president, said on Instagram: “You were instrumental in England’s success at the Women’s Euro and for Chelsea in what has been a historic year for the club. Thank you for inspiring young people around the world, and I wish you the very best!”

Manchester City and Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma took the men’s prize after helping Paris St Germain to a quadruple in his final season with the club. Donnarumma, 26, lifted the Champions League for the first time in his career at the end of a campaign in which PSG won a domestic treble in France.

“It was an incredible year, one that will live long in my memory, and it’s touching to be recognised for my role in the success achieved over that period,” Donnarumma said. “I will truly appreciate this acknowledgment and look ahead now to achieving more success with my new club Manchester City.”

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