Haaland wins 2020 Golden Boy Award

The Golden Boy Award is awarded to the top U-21 player registered to a top division club in Europe, and has been previous won by Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi and others (full list at bottom of post).

Golden Boy winner Erling Haaland joins some star-studded company 🌟 pic.twitter.com/hZ7FqluQsf

— B/R Football (@brfootball) November 21, 2020

Barcelona back Sergino Dest finished 13th in the voting, four ahead of Canada’s Jonathan David. Fellow Canadian star Alphonso Davies was third.

American youngster Giovanni Reyna and Mexico’s Diego Lainez will be among the favorites to join the top tier of vote-getters in 2021 after being named to the initial shortlist but missing the cut for the Top 40 this season.

44 goals in 40 games in 2019-20.

10 goals in his first 8 Champions League games.

27 goals in his first 29 Borussia Dortmund games.

The Golden Boy award just HAD to go to @ErlingHaaland.

🤩 pic.twitter.com/nvAcmL6UIH

— Goal (@goal) November 21, 2020

Haaland’s incredible 2019-20 season was split between Red Bull Salzburg and Borussia Dortmund. He scored 28 times with seven assists in 24 matched for the Austrians before scoring 16 and 3 in 18 appearances for BVB.

Haaland, 20, is the first Norwegian to win the award and first Bundesliga player named to the honor since Renato Sanches in 2016.

Because the award includes all clubs the player suited up for in a given season and Haaland started last season with American coach Jesse Marsch at Salzburg, Haaland is the first player from an Austrian club to win the award.

Erling Haaland joins an incredible list of players to have won the Golden Boy award 🤩 pic.twitter.com/Rhj67xlitz

— Goal (@goal) November 21, 2020

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Four Premier League stars made the list, with Man City’s Ferran Torres and Phil Foden joined by Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) and Bukayo Saka (Arsenal).