Serie A Young Footballer of the Year

Antonio Cassano, who has won the Serie A Young Footballer of the Year award twice

The Serie A Young Footballer of the Year (Italian: Migliore calciatore giovane) is an annual association football award. It is presented to the under-24 footballer who has been considered to have performed the best over the previous Serie A season. It is organized by the Italian Footballers' Association (AIC) and is part of the "Oscar del Calcio" awards event.

Antonio Cassano has won the award the most; he has won the award twice in 2001 and 2003. He is the only player to have won the award twice. Roma have had the most winners; three players from the club have won the award three times. The first non-Italian to win the award was Slovak Marek Hamšík in 2008. Javier Pastore is the most recent recipient of the award.

Winners

Filippo Inzaghi, who won the first award in 1997

Alexandre Pato, who won the award in 2009

Year	Player	Club
1997	Filippo Inzaghi	Atalanta
1998	Alessandro Nesta	Lazio
1999	Francesco Totti	Roma
2000	Roberto Baronio	Reggina
2001	Antonio Cassano	Bari
2002	Matteo Brighi	Bologna
2003	Antonio Cassano	Roma
2004	Alberto Gilardino	Parma
2005	Giampaolo Pazzini	Fiorentina
2006	Daniele De Rossi	Roma
2007	Riccardo Montolivo	Fiorentina
2008	Marek Hamšík	Napoli
2009	Alexandre Pato	Milan
2010	Javier Pastore	Palermo

By club

Club	Players	Total
Roma	3	3
Fiorentina	2	2
Atalanta	1	1
Bari	1	1
Bologna	1	1
Lazio	1	1
Milan	1	1
Napoli	1	1
Palermo	1	1
Parma	1	1
Reggina	1	1

By country

Country	Players	Total
Italy	10	11
Argentina	1	1
Brazil	1	1
Slovakia	1	1

By position

Position	Players	Total
Forward	6	7
Midfielder	6	6
Defender	1	1

References

General

• "Albo d'Oro" (in Italian) (PDF). Il Calciatore. p. 9. http://www.assocalciatori.it/aic%5Caic.nsf/49349185067EE56FC1257557003FE612/$file/aic%20rivista%20calciatore%20bassa_ok.pdf. Retrieved 11 February 2008. 

Specific

External links

• Official AIC Site