The Ebony Shoe award (Dutch: ''Ebbenhouten schoen'', French: ''Soulier d'ébène'') is a

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

award in Belgium given annually to the best African or African origin player in the

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. The jury is composed of the coaches of league clubs, the Belgian national team manager, sport journalists, and one or more honorary jurors. As of 2020, Mbark Boussoufa (3 wins),

Daniel Amokachi Daniel Owefin Amokachi (born 30 December 1972) is a Nigerian football manager and former professional footballer and a member of the dubious goals panel for the Premier League. As a player he was a forward who notably played in the Premier L ...

(2 wins),

Vincent Kompany Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany (; ; born 10 April 1986) is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back and is the current manager of EFL Championship club Burnley. He most notably played for Manchester Ci ...

(2 wins) and Dieumerci Mbokani (2) are the only players to have won the trophy more than once.

Winners

Breakdown of winners

By country of origin

By club

References

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