Great Goals Project

The Great Goals Project is an attempt to catalogue, analyse, and rank every high-quality goal scored in various competitions or by famous players. We rank goals based across a number of specific categories in order to establish the difference between the very good, the great, and the greatest.

By clicking through to each goal's individual page, not only can you watch a video of said goal, but you can see in more detail how we calculated each rating.

We categorise goals based on a number of factors which determine which goals we deem to be the best.

1. Aesthetically Pleasing: How enjoyable was the goal to watch?
2. Technical Difficulty: How hard is it for a professional player to score a goal like this?
3. Uniqueness: Has this goal been seen many times before, or is it one-of-a-kind?
4. Importance: Was the effort the fifth in a 5-0 win, or the winner in the Champions League final?
5. Standard of Opposition: How good was the team that the goal was scored against?

The latter is defined by the league position of the opponent that season, ranking from Champions (10) all the way down to the teams relegated.

On FootballCritic we have ranked the following:

• Greatest Premier League goals
• Greatest Lionel Messi goals

We will be adding more competitions, teams and players in the coming weeks and months ahead. Stay tuned!