Billy Tabb's bicycle kick wins the People's Puskas 2025
Frederik Hvillum
From 2,332 submitted goals across 45 countries to one winner. Billy Tabb of Grangevale AFC wins the People's Puskas 2025 with a bicycle kick Cork will never forget.
Billy Tabb wins the People's Puskas 2025.
From 2,332 submitted goals across 45 countries, to hundreds of thousands of votes, to a bicycle kick on a Sunday afternoon in Cork that has since been seen millions of times online. The player from Grangevale AFC, competing in the Cork Business League, has won this year's award for the best grassroots goal of the year.
"It feels great to win this award knowing it was down to public voting and knowing everyone had my back and voted for me," says Billy Tabb.
The goal
The goalkeeper starts the counter. A quick ball out to the number six, just past halfway. He moves it on immediately to the winger, who drives forward and plays it across.
The cross comes in higher than expected.
Tabb heads it up to control it. The ball drops. He has scored bicycle kicks before, practices them in training, tries them in matches when the chance appears. As soon as the ball sits up, instinct takes over.
"A lot of it was down to family and friends, and to be fair, a lot of media coverage from Red FM and the CBL," says Tabb. "It's been a long, stressful few weeks, phone always on the go, but it was all worth it in the end."
How Cork got behind Billy
From the moment the ball hit the net, the Cork Business League knew what they had.
Jamie O'Sullivan, Head of Marketing at the CBL: "We have pushed this goal from the minute it was scored. We knew we had something special. This goal has been on Sky Sports in Ireland and the UK and has been viewed over 10 million times online."
Cork City FC and Cobh Ramblers both shared the goal. So did local Olympic medal winner Rob Heffernan. An entire city, professional clubs and all, got behind a player from a Sunday league in Cork.
The CBL had been filming their game of the week with Veo for over a year before that afternoon. "We took a shot at investing in a Veo to live stream a game of the week in our league every week. It was a big investment for us at the time, but it has paid off 10 times over. Having the CBL Veo camera there for that game was a blessing,” O’Sullivan says.
Grangevale AFC went and bought a Veo camera straight after the goal was scored.
The People's Puskas
Veo started People's Puskas in 2022 because the same thing kept happening: a goal somewhere deserving far more than it got. A screamer in the Welsh valleys. A last-minute winner on a pitch in Finland. The kind of moment that makes everyone watching lose their minds.
The idea is simple. Celebrate the best goal away from football's biggest arenas.
It has grown every year. In 2023, Mason Evans won with a volley that impressed over 12 million people. Last year, Jonathan Le Ner's bicycle kick reached over 30 million people and united football fans across continents. This year, Billy Tabb.
Beautiful football does not belong only to the elite level. A bicycle kick scored on a Sunday afternoon deserves recognition if it's good enough. Tabb's was good enough.
Last year's winner Jonathan Le Ner scored a bicycle kick that reached 30 million people. Read his story here.
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