Bukayo Saka Wins The Socrates Award 2026: What Does It Mean?

Football has always been a medium of providing happiness and joy to fans all over the world, not just through the deeds on the pitch, but also off it. Professional players are also humans outside of the football pitch, and many of them are involved in charitable and humanitarian work for the betterment of the world.

The Socrates Award is one of them, a great initiative from France Football, which recognises the work done by players in improving society as a whole. Many of you might still be thinking, what is Socrates Award?

Don't worry, Sportsdunia is here to clear all your confusion.

What Is Socrates Award?

The Socrates Award, as we mentioned earlier, is handed out to the player or coaches or foundations who did the best humanitarian work for the given football calendar. Bukayo Saka was the latest winner of the award, and he teamed up with BigShoe, a global charity network, to help children and families in underprivileged areas.

Saka even read out a story about how the charity helped a 14-year-old boy from Rwanda regain his eyesight after starting to lose it at the meagre age of 12. France football rightly awarded the Socrates Award 2026 to the Englishman, as they have done over the years.

Here is the full list of the Socrates Award winners over the years since the inception of this award category in the Ballon d'Or.