2014 CONCACAF Awards

The 2014 CONCACAF Awards are the second year for CONCACAF's awards for the top region football players, coaches and referees of the year. The shortlists were published on 11 December 2014.^[1] The results were announced on 23 December 2014.^[2]

Award winners and shortlists

Player of the Year

Rank	Name	Position	National Team	Club
1st	Keylor Navas	Goalkeeper	Costa Rica	Real Madrid
2nd	Bryan Ruiz	Forward	Costa Rica	Fulham
3rd	Tim Howard	Goalkeeper	United States	Everton
	Celso Borges	Midfielder	Costa Rica	AIK
	Clint Dempsey	Forward	United States	Seattle Sounders FC
	Giovani dos Santos	Forward	Mexico	Villarreal
	Guillermo Ochoa	Goalkeeper	Mexico	Málaga
	Javier Hernández	Forward	Mexico	Real Madrid
	Joel Campbell	Forward	Costa Rica	Arsenal
	Rafael Márquez	Defender	Mexico	Hellas Verona

Female Player of the Year

Rank	Name	Position	National Team	Club
1st	Abby Wambach	Forward	United States	Western New York Flash
2nd	Shirley Cruz	Midfielder	Costa Rica	Paris Saint-Germain Féminines
3rd	Charlyn Corral	Forward	Mexico	Merilappi United
	Alex Morgan	Forward	United States	Portland Thorns FC
	Carli Lloyd	Midfielder	United States	Western New York Flash
	Christine Sinclair	Forward	Canada	Portland Thorns
	Hope Solo	Goalkeeper	United States	Seattle Reign FC
	Kennya Cordner	Forward	Trinidad and Tobago	Seattle Sounders Women
	Lauren Holiday	Midfielder	United States	FC Kansas City
	Raquel Rodriguez Cedeño	Forward	Costa Rica	Penn State Nittany Lions

Goalkeeper of the Year

Rank	Name	National Team	Club
1st	Tim Howard	United States	Everton
2nd	Guillermo Ochoa	Mexico	Málaga
3rd	Keylor Navas	Costa Rica	Real Madrid
	Alfredo Talavera	Mexico	Toluca
	Andre Blake	Jamaica	Philadelphia Union
	Jaime Penedo	Panama	LA Galaxy
	Jan-Michael Williams	Trinidad and Tobago	Central FC
	Jesús Corona	Mexico	Cruz Azul
	Nick Rimando	United States	Real Salt Lake
	Patrick Pemberton	Costa Rica	Alajuelense

Coach of the Year

Rank	Name	Club	National Team
1st	Jorge Luis Pinto		Costa Rica
2nd	Luis Fernando Suarez		Honduras
3rd	Oscar Ramírez	Alajuelense
	Bruce Arena	LA Galaxy
	Garabet Avedissian		Costa Rica (♀) and  Costa Rica (♀ U20)
	Jill Ellis		United States (♀)
	Jorge Dely Valdés	Tauro
	Jürgen Klinsmann		United States
	Miguel Herrera		Mexico
	Stephen Hart		Trinidad and Tobago

Referee of the Year

Rank	Name
1st	Mark Geiger
2nd	Marco Antonio Rodriguez
3rd	Henry Bejarano
	Dwight Royal
	Joel Aguilar
	Roberto García Orozco
	Roberto Moreno
	Walter López
	Walter Quesada
	Wilson Da Costa

Goal of the Year

This award applies only to goals scored during CONCACAF official competitions.

Rank	Player	Date	Participants	Minute scored	Competition
1st	Bryan Ruiz	20 June 2014	Costa Rica vs.  Italy	44'	2014 FIFA World Cup
2nd	Esteban Ramírez	2 November 2014	Herediano vs. Saprissa	20'	2014–15 Costa Rican FPD season
3rd	Joel Campbell	14 June 2014	Costa Rica vs.  Uruguay	54'	2014 FIFA World Cup
	Carolina Venegas	21 October 2014	Martinique vs.  Costa Rica	81'	2014 CONCACAF Women's Championship
	Elías Aguilar	21 August 2014	Herediano vs. Isidro Metapán	42'	2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League
	Giovani dos Santos	29 June 2014	Netherlands vs.  Mexico	48'	2014 FIFA World Cup
	Jermaine Jones	22 June 2014	United States vs.  Portugal	64'	2014 FIFA World Cup
	Marco Fabián	15 February 2014	Cruz Azul vs. Puebla	92'	2013–14 Liga MX season
	Meghan Klingenberg	20 October 2014	United States vs.  Haiti	57'	2014 CONCACAF Women's Championship
	Yendrick Ruiz	21 August 2014	Herediano vs. Isidro Metapán	33'	2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League

References