Sport | Association football |
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Competition | Serie A |
Awarded for | Young player considered to have performed the best in each given Serie A season |
Local name | Migliore calciatore giovane AIC (Italian) |
Country | Italy |
Presented by | Italian Footballers' Association (AIC) |
History | |
First award | 1997 |
Editions | 14 |
Final award | 2010 |
First winner | Filippo Inzaghi (1997) |
Most wins |
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Most recent | Javier Pastore (2010) |
Website | Official website |
The AIC Serie A Young Footballer of the Year (Italian: Migliore calciatore giovane AIC) was a yearly award organized by the Italian Footballers' Association (AIC) given to the under-24 footballer who was considered to have performed the best over the previous Serie A season. It was organised by the Italian Footballers' Association (AIC) as part of the Oscar del Calcio awards event.
Antonio Cassano is the only multiple winner of the award, winning it in 2001 and 2003. Roma had the most winners with three players from the club winning the award. The first non-Italian to win the award was the Slovak Marek Hamšík in 2008.