The Ebony Shoe award (Dutch: Ebbenhouten schoen, French: Soulier d'ébène[1]) is a football award in Belgium given annually to the best African or African origin player in the Belgian Pro League. The jury is composed of the coaches of league clubs, the Belgium national team manager, sport journalists, and one or more honorary jurors.[2]
As of 2020, Mbark Boussoufa (3 wins), Daniel Amokachi (2 wins), Vincent Kompany (2 wins) and Dieumerci Mbokani (2) are the only players to have won the trophy more than once.
| Year | Winner | Second | Third | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | ||
| 1992 | only the winner declared | ||||||
| 1993 | Club Brugge | ||||||
| 1994 | Seraing | ||||||
| 1995 | Anderlecht | ||||||
| 1996 | Lommel | ||||||
| 1997 | ( ) | () | Lommel | ||||
| 1998 | Club Brugge | ||||||
| 1999 | align=center colspan=4 | only the winner ranked; the rest of the top 5 unordered (Fadiga, Keita, É. Mpenza and M. Mpenza) | |||||
| 2000 | Lokeren | ||||||
| 2001 | Lokeren | ||||||
| 2002 | RWDM | ||||||
| 2003 | Germinal Beerschot | ||||||
| 2004 | () | () | Mouscron | ||||
| 2005 | () | Anderlecht | |||||
| 2006 | Standard Liège | ||||||
| 2007 | Gent | ||||||
| 2008 | ( ) | Standard Liège | |||||
| 2009 | Mechelen | ||||||
| 2010 | () | Club Brugge | |||||
| 2011 | () | Standard Liège | |||||
| 2012 | Standard Liège | ||||||
| 2013[3] | Anderlecht | ||||||
| 2014[4] | () | () | Standard Liège | ||||
| 2015[5] | Anderlecht | ||||||
| 2016 | Anderlecht | ||||||
| 2017 | () | () | |||||
| 2018 | () | ||||||
| 2019[6] | only the winner ranked; the rest of the top 5 unordered (Boli, Carcela, Dimata and Groeneveld) | ||||||
| 2020[7] | Club Brugge | ||||||
| 2021[8] | () | Genk | |||||
| 2022[9] | ( ) | Anderlecht | |||||
| 2023[10] | ( ) | Gent | |||||
| 2024[11] | Genk | ||||||
| Country | Number of wins | Winning years | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020 | |||
| Nigeria | 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2021 | ||
| 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2022 | |||
| 2007, 2023 | |||
| 1998 | |||
| 1999 | |||
| 2001 | |||
| 2002 | |||
| 2003 | |||
| 2013 | |||
| 2016 | |||
| 2019 | |||
| 2024 |
| Club | Number of wins | Winning years | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderlecht | 1996, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017 | ||
| Club Brugge | 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2018 | ||
| Genk | 1999, 2002, 2019, 2021, 2023 | ||
| Gent | 2001, 2006, 2022 | ||
| Standard Liège | 2008, 2014 | ||
| RFC Liège | 1993 | ||
| Eendracht Aalst | 1995 | ||
| Mouscron | 1997 | ||
| Zulte Waregem | 2013 | ||
| Charleroi | 2015 | ||
| Mechelen | 2016 | ||
| Antwerp | 2020 | ||
| Cercle Brugge | 2024 |