Official: Lamine Yamal wins 2024 Golden Boy award

Barcelona winger and EURO 2024 champion Lamine Yamal has been officially announced as the winner of the 2024 Golden Boy award.

The prize celebrates the best players in Europe aged 21 and under, and is given out annually by Turin-based outlet Tuttosport. 

Yamal crowned Golden Boy for 2024

Yamal, who was the odds-on favourite to claim the award, has been confirmed as the winner of the main Golden Boy prize for 2024.

His triumph comes after a spectacular year for club and country, which culminated in a EURO 2024 victory with Spain over the summer. The teenage sensation celebrated his 17th birthday midway through the tournament.

Yamal came out on top of a 25-player shortlist that also included Manchester United pair Kobbie Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho, Juventus duo Kenan Yildiz and Samuel Mbangula, plus Real Madrid’s Endrick and Arda Güler.

Yamal becomes the third different Barcelona player to win the award over the last four seasons following the successes of Pedri and Gavi in 2021 and 2022 respectively. Real Madrid’s Jude Bellingham was the most recent winner before Wednesday afternoon.

Every previous Golden Boy winner 

2024 – Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)

2023 – Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid)

2022 – Gavi (Barcelona)

2021 – Pedri (Barcelona)

2020 – Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund)

2019 – Joao Felix (Atletico Madrid)

2018 – Matthijs De Ligt (Ajax)

2017 – Kylian Mbappe (PSG)

2016 – Renato Sanches (Bayern Munich)

2015 – Anthony Martial (Manchester United)

2014 – Raheem Sterling (Liverpool)

2013 – Paul Pogba (Juventus)

2012 – Isco (Malaga)

2011 – Mario Götze (Borussia Dortmund)

2010 – Mario Balotelli (Manchester City)

2009 – Alxandre Pato (Milan)

2008 – Anderson (Manchester United)

2007 – Sergio Aguero (Atletico Madrid)

2006 – Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal)

2005 – Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

2004 – Wayne Rooney (Manchester United)

2003 – Rafael Van Der Vaart (Ajax)

Full list of 2024 nominees

Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)

Pau Cubarsi (Barcelona)

Kenan Yildiz (Juventus)

Samuel Mbangula (Juventus)

Arda Güler (Real Madrid)

Endrick (Real Madrid)

Joao Neves (PSG)

Warren Zaire-Emery (PSG)

Desire Doue (PSG)

Alejandro Garnacho (Manchester United)

Kobbie Mainoo (Manchester United)

Leny Yoro (Manchester United)

Savio (Manchester City)

Rico Lewis (Manchester City)

Aleksandar Pavlovic (Bayern Munich)

Mathijs Tel (Bayern Munich)

Jorrel Hato (Ajax)

Jamie Bynoe-Gittens (Borussia Dortmund)

Cristhian Mosquera (Valencia)

Adam Wharton (Crystal Palace)

Oscar Gloukh (RB Salzburg)

Samu Omorodion (Porto)

Wilson Odobert (Tottenham)

Andreas Schjelderup (Benfica)

Eliesse Ben Seghir (Monaco)