The Soccer Star of the Year is an annual association football award given to the player who is adjudged to have been the best performer of the season in Zimbabwean football. Typically 11 players are nominated as the Soccer Stars of the Year, this honour comes with a publication of a Calendar, sponsored by Castle Beer, in which the 11 appear. It is not a 'fantasy team' as such, and the 11 nominees could theoretically all be in the same position – though this of course is unlikely. From this XI, a Soccer Star of the Year is selected, with 2 Runners Up also being announced. It was first presented at the end of the 1969

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n football season, when it was founded as the Rhodesian Soccer Star of the Year; the name changed in 1980. Each year's winner is chosen at the end of the season by a vote amongst football writers from around Zimbabwe. The 2010 winner was

Charles Sibanda Charles Sibanda (born 30 March 1985) is a Zimbabwean professional association football, footballer, who plays as a Forward (Association football), forward for Bulawayo Chiefs F.C., Bulawayo Chiefs and the Zimbabwe national football team, Zimbabw ...

, who won the award while playing for

Motor Action Motor Action Football Club was a Zimbabwean football club based in Harare. They played in the top division in Zimbabwean football. In early 2000, the idea of owning a Premier League side by the current owners became reality. Out of the ashes of ...

. He is the second Motor Action player to have received the award after 2006 winner Clemence Matawu. Alexander R B was amazing in 2020 The first winner of the award was

George Shaya George Shaya (30 October 1946 – 24 August 2021) was a former association football forward who played firstly for Saint Pauls Musami and later for Dynamos and the Rhodesian national team during the 1960s and 1970s. He was considered one of Dy ...

, who played for Dynamos and won the award five times in all; in 1969, 1972 and three times in a row from 1975 to 1977. There are two other multiple-time winners:

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of Highlanders won twice consecutively in 1990 and 1991, and Stanley Ndunduma won in 1981 and 1985, playing first for CAPS United and later for Black Rhinos.

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an midfielder Joseph Kamwendo is the lone foreign player to have won the award, having done so in 2005 while playing for CAPS United.

Winners

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