🎥 Top 10 panenkas in football history

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·5 October 2025

🎥 Top 10 panenkas in football history

The Panenka. Between audacity and poetry, this move has been dividing opinions for decades.

Instead of deciding between genius and arrogance, we prefer to rank the top 10 most beautiful attempts in history, across all eras.

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10 – LIONEL MESSI vs GETAFE

⚽ Getafe ⚽ Vila-real ⚽ Olympique de Lió 🎥 Aquests són els tres 'Panenka' de #Messi 👉 https://t.co/t9LY5BSYaA
– Thursday, 14 March 2019

9 – SEBASTIAN ABREU vs GHANA

🇺🇾Sebastián Abreu cumple 43🎂 ¡Felicitaciones, @loco13com! ¿Qué sienten al recordar este penal con @Uruguay en la definición contra Ghana en #Sudáfrica2010👀? #WorldCup
– Thursday, 17 October 2019

8 – HELDER POSTIGA vs SPAIN

🎉 Parabéns Hélder Postiga 🎂 Recorde este penalty emocionante por Portugal num jogo eléctrico do EURO 2004 😬😱🥳 Foi o momento mais marcante dessa partida? #EURO2020 @selecaoportugal
– Friday, 2 August 2019

7 – THIERRY HENRY vs NEWCASTLE

🗓 #OnThisDay in 2003: Just @ThierryHenry being Thierry Henry 👑 Which emoji best sums up this cheeky finish?
– Wednesday, 26 September 2018

6 – SERGIO RAMOS vs PORTUGAL

🌟 S e r g i o R a m o s 🌟 🇪🇸 168 partidos 🏆 EURO 2008 🏆 Mundial 2010 🏆 EURO 2012 Jugador con más partidos con la selección española 👏 🔴 @SergioRamos | @SeFutbol
– Friday, 18 October 2019

5 – KARIM BENZEMA VS MAN CITY

🗣️ Benzema: "I had been practising the 'Panenka' for a long time and I was just waiting for the right moment, in a match like that, where there is a lot of pressure." #UCL | #UCLfinal
– Wednesday, 18 May 2022

4 – ZINEDINE ZIDANE vs ITALY

The 2006 #WorldCup, the tournament where @FrenchTeam legend Zinedine Zidane called time on his glittering playing career 🇫🇷 👑
– Wednesday, 2 May 2018

3 – FRANCESCO TOTTI vs NETHERLANDS

Festeggiamo il Natale con il 'cucchiaio' 🥄 @Totti 🎅
– Tuesday, 25 December 2018

2 – ANDREA PIRLO vs ENGLAND

🇮🇹 Andrea Pirlo + Panenka = 👏👏👏 🎂 Happy 70th birthday to the father of chipped penalties, Antonín Panenka! 🎉
– Sunday, 2 December 2018

1 – ANTONIN PANENKA vs GERMANY

⏰ ACCADDE OGGI ⏰ Il cucchiaio di Antonín Panenka 🥄👏
– Thursday, 20 June 2019

BONUS

The Panenka free kick by Nico Gaitan (Benfica) against PAOK.

How to clip a free-kick over the wall, by @SLBenfica hero @nicogaitan 🔥🔥🔥 Benfica 🆚 PAOK in the #UCL play-offs tonight! Who will come out on top this time? 🤔
– Tuesday, 21 August 2018

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.

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10 – LIONEL MESSI vs GETAFE

9 – SEBASTIAN ABREU vs GHANA

8 – HELDER POSTIGA vs SPAIN

7 – THIERRY HENRY vs NEWCASTLE

6 – SERGIO RAMOS vs PORTUGAL

5 – KARIM BENZEMA VS MAN CITY

4 – ZINEDINE ZIDANE vs ITALY

3 – FRANCESCO TOTTI vs NETHERLANDS

2 – ANDREA PIRLO vs ENGLAND

1 – ANTONIN PANENKA vs GERMANY

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