The Montenegrin Footballer of the Year is an annual award chosen by the team captains and the coaches of the Prva crnogorska fudbalska liga — 1. CFL to determine the best player in Montenegro. It is published by the

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. The most successful player is Mirko Vučinić, who has won the award seven times, as well as being the inaugural winner.

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is the youngest player to receive this honour so far; he was 20 years old when he won the award. The most recent footballer of the year is

Stefan Savić Stefan Savić (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Стефан Савић, ; born 8 January 1991) is a Montenegrin professional footballer who plays for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Montenegro national team as a central defender. Born in Mojkovac ...

for 2021. Before 2006, two Montenegrin footballers were named

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; Dejan Savićević in 1995, and Predrag Mijatović (for three times) in 1992, 1993 and 1998.

Winners

Players

2013 controversy

In 2013, Mirko Vučinić won the Montenegrin Footballer of the Year for the seventh time. However, the public opinion was that in 2013,

Dejan Damjanović Dejan Damjanović ( sr-cyrl, Дејан Дамјановић, ; born 27 July 1981), also known mononymously as Dejan, is a Montenegrin professional footballer who plays as a forward for Hong Kong Premier League club Kitchee. He is regarded as ...

should have been given the award. Damjanović scored four goals in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers (two against

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and one against

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and

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), was announced as the top scorer of the K-League and the MVP of the

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. The media agreed that Vučinić was the best overall Montenegrin footballer, however, Damjanović's performances in 2013 were far better than Vučinić's, who was injured during the decisive qualification matches of the national team. Finally, Montenegrin website CG-Fudbal awarded Damjanović "Best Montenegrin Footballer of the Year", according to a poll voted by the fans.

Breakdown of winners

Winners by club nationality

Winners by club

Winners by position

References

External links

All Players of the Year at ''Worldfootball.net''

Mirko Vucinic Player of the Year 2012 ''Football-Italia.net''
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