Sportspeople of the Year Gala: football teams and players up for awards

The award ceremony will be held in a studio set up at the National Theatre in Budapest on 11th January, without an audience present due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 90-minute broadcast, cut from pre-recorded sections, will be shown on M4 Sport from 19.45.

At the request of the Hungarian Football Association, there will be no separate football categories this time, so footballers will measure themselves in the general categories.

Based on their 2020 performances, footballers are in the top three nominations of four of the seven categories, and moreover, more than one football-related nominee will be on the podium in three categories. The Team of the Year might turn out to be the Hungarian national football team and Ferencváros, while Marco Rossi and Serhiy Rebrov are in the top three of the Coach of the Year category, and Péter Gulácsi and Dominik Szoboszlai are among the best in the category of Sportswoman of the Year. Dominik Szoboszlai's winning goal in the European Championship qualifier against Iceland is a contender to win the Sports Moment of the Year prize.

The three remaining contenders in each category (in alphabetical order):

Sportsman:

Márton Fucsovics (tennis)
Péter Gulácsi (football)
Dominik Szoboszlai (football)

Sportswoman:

Boglárka Kapás (swimming)
Hedvig Karakas (juggling)
Zsófia Kovács (gymnastics)

Team:

Ferencváros football club
Men's football national team
Men's water polo national team

Team (in otherwise individual sports):

Tímea Babos, Kristina Mladenovic (tennis)
Men's tennis team
Women's gymnastics team

Coach:

Tamás Märcz (men's water polo national team)
Serhiy Rebrov (Ferencváros football team)
Marco Rossi (men's football national team)

Para sportsperson:

Judit Berente (organ-transplant cross-country, ski shooter)
Pál Péter Kiss (para kayak)
Richárd Osváth (wheelchair fencer)

Sports moment of the year:

Dominik Szoboszlai's winning goal in the European Championship qualifier against Iceland

The sensational final race of Attila Valter on a road bike on the Kékestető hill, which won him the last stage of the Tour de Hongrie and with it the overall title.

Goalkeeper Soma Vogel's save from Granados' shot in the penalty shootout of the European Championship final, meaning the Hungarian men's national team became continental champions again after 21 years.