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MLS Goal of the Year Award

Annual award in Major League Soccer

Summary

Annual award in Major League Soccer

The MLS Goal of the Year Award (currently commercially termed "AT&T MLS Goal of the Year") is handed out annually since its inception in 1996 to a player in Major League Soccer (MLS) whose goal is selected in an on-line fan vote including the season's Goal of the Week Award winners.

Winners

Season	Nationality	For	Opponent	Stadium
	San Jose Clash	D.C. United	Spartan Stadium	April 6, 1996
	D.C. United	New England Revolution	RFK Stadium	August 27, 1997
	Columbus Crew	Chicago Fire	Ohio Stadium	July 9, 1998
(2)	D.C. United	Miami Fusion	Lockhart Stadium	May 22, 1999
	Colorado Rapids	Columbus Crew	Columbus Crew Stadium	April 22, 2000
	MetroStars	Dallas Burn	Giants Stadium	April 28, 2001
	LA Galaxy	Columbus Crew	Rose Bowl	July 27, 2002
	Chicago Fire	Columbus Crew	Columbus Crew Stadium	August 13, 2003
	San Jose Earthquakes	D.C. United	Spartan Stadium	August 7, 2004
(2)	San Jose Earthquakes	LA Galaxy	The Home Depot Center	October 15, 2005
	Houston Dynamo	D.C. United	Robertson Stadium	September 30, 2006
	Chicago Fire	Real Salt Lake	Rice-Eccles Stadium	August 18, 2007
	Real Salt Lake	FC Dallas	Rio Tinto Stadium	October 18, 2008
	LA Galaxy	New England Revolution	Gillette Stadium	August 8, 2009
	Chicago Fire	San Jose Earthquakes	Toyota Park	April 10, 2010
	Portland Timbers	Sporting Kansas City	Jeld-Wen Field	July 2, 2011
	Seattle Sounders FC	Sporting Kansas City	CenturyLink Field	June 20, 2012
	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Portland Timbers	BC Place	October 6, 2013
	Seattle Sounders FC	San Jose Earthquakes	CenturyLink Field	May 17, 2014
	Sporting Kansas City	Portland Timbers	Providence Park	October 3, 2015
	Colorado Rapids	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	BC Place	September 24, 2016
	Atlanta United FC	Orlando City SC	Orlando City Stadium	July 21, 2017
	LA Galaxy	Los Angeles FC	StubHub Center	March 31, 2018
	Atlanta United FC	FC Cincinnati	Nippert Stadium	September 18, 2019
(2)	Columbus Crew	Chicago Fire	Mapfre Stadium	August 20, 2020
Rubio Rubin	Real Salt Lake	San Jose Earthquakes	Rio Tinto Stadium	May 7, 2021
Josef Martínez (2)	Atlanta United FC	New England Revolution	Gillette Stadium	October 1, 2022
Luciano Acosta	FC Cincinnati	Charlotte FC	TQL Stadium	September 23, 2023
Luca Orellano	FC Cincinnati	CF Montréal	TQL Stadium	August 31, 2024
Son Heung-min	Los Angeles FC	FC Dallas	Toyota Stadium	August 23, 2025

References

(November 17, 2010). "AT&T Goal of the Year winner: Marco Pappa". MLSsoccer.com.
"Timbers' Darlington Nagbe wins AT&T Goal of the Year". MLSsoccer.com.
(November 29, 2012). "Stunner from Seattle's Ianni voted AT&T Goal of the Year". MLSsoccer.com.
"Vancouver Whitecaps' Camilo Sanvezzo wins 2013 AT&T Goal of the Year award". MLSsoccer.com.
"Seattle Sounders forward Obafemi Martins captures 2014 AT&T Goal of the Year for Week 11 chip". MLSsoccer.com.
(December 3, 2015). "Sporting KC's Krisztian Nemeth wins 2015 AT&T Goal of the Year". MLSsoccer.com.
(November 11, 2016). "Colorado Rapids' Shkelzen Gashi wins 2016 AT&T MLS Goal of the Year". MLSsoccer.com.
(November 15, 2017). "Atlanta's Hector Villalba wins 2017 AT&T Goal of the Year". MLSsoccer.com.
(November 13, 2018). "LA Galaxy's Zlatan Ibrahimovic claims 2018 AT&T Goal of the Year". MLSsoccer.com.
(October 23, 2019). "Atlanta United's Josef Martinez wins 2019 AT&T Goal of the Year".
(November 20, 2020). "Columbus Crew SC's Darlington Nagbe wins 2020 AT&T Goal of the Year".
(November 23, 2021). "Real Salt Lake's Rubio Rubin wins 2021 AT&T MLS Goal of the Year fan vote". MLSsoccer.com.
(October 20, 2022). "Atlanta United's Josef Martinez wins 2022 AT&T 5G MLS Goal of the Year fan vote". MLSsoccer.com.
(November 9, 2023). "FC Cincinnati's Luciano Acosta wins 2023 AT&T 5G MLS Goal of the Year". Major League Soccer.
(October 30, 2024). "FC Cincinnati's Luca Orellano wins 2024 AT&T MLS Goal of the Year". Major League Soccer.
(October 27, 2025). "LAFC's Son Heung-Min wins 2025 AT&T MLS Goal of the Year". Major League Soccer.

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