Cristiano Ronaldo’s overhead kick against his present club, Juventus in the quarterfinal of last season, has been voted as the best goal of the UEFA Champions League.


Ronaldo’s goal beat of the competition from Olympique Marseilles forward, Dimitri Payet’s goal against Leipzig in the Europa League and Eva Navarro’s strike for in Spain’s 2-0 victory against Germany in the UEFA European Women U-17 game.

Ronaldo’s strike, which was applauded on the night by his opposing – and it turned out future – fans, topped the poll with nearly 200,000 of the total 346,915 votes. He succeeds his new Juve colleague Mario Mandžukić, who won last year for the goal against Madrid in the UEFA Champions League final, while Lionel Messi took the award in both 2014/15 and 2015/16.

The runner-up was Dimitri Payet’s goal in Marseille’s 5-2 UEFA Europa League defeat of RB Leipzig, while third place went to Eva Navarro’s goal for Spain in their Women’s U17 Euro final victory against Germany in Lithuania in May.

A statement from UEFA website said this year’s eleven nominees were selected by UEFA’s Technical Observers, with one for each of the main UEFA competitions were been active over the past 12 months. Only goals registered in UEFA club or international fixtures were eligible for consideration.

PREVIOUS WINNERS OF UEFA GOAL OF THE SEASON

2017: Mario Mandžukić (Juventus) v Real Madrid, 03/06/17
2016: Lionel Messi (Barcelona) v Roma, 24/11/15
2015: Lionel Messi (Barcelona) v Bayern, 06/05/15