'Keeper's getting done' - Windass & other own-half rockets

Josh Windass' goal from inside his own half for Sheffield Wednesday has drawn comparisons to David Beckham's from the halfway line

There can't be many occasions when the goal of the year is scored on 1 January.

However, that might just be the case for 2025 after Josh Windass' stunning hit from his own half for Sheffield Wednesday against Derby.

BBC Sport takes a look at some other goals scored from way, way out in English football - and you can let us know which one is your favourite.

David Beckham (Wimbledon v Manchester United, 1996)

Probably the most famous goal on this list - or most lists for that matter - and one that really launched the future England captain's career.

It was the last minute of the opening day of the 1996-97 season and a loose ball ran to young Manchester United right midfielder David Beckham just inside his own half.

The 21-year-old looked up, spotted Wimbledon goalkeeper Neil Sullivan off his line and went for it with a fantastic arcing shot that sailed into the net.

Some newspapers claimed it was the greatest goal ever scored, while legendary United team-mate Eric Cantona was also full of praise.

"Good goal, David," is what the Frenchman reportedly said. Hard to disagree.

Xabi Alonso (Liverpool v Newcastle United, 2006)

Who'd be a goalkeeper? A backpedalling Steve Harper fell over and then desperately dived to try to thwart Xabi Alonso's shot from way out

Before he was a Bundesliga-winning coach, Xabi Alonso was one of the most gifted midfield players of his generation.

The Spaniard had a fantastic passing range and an eye for the spectacular as he showed against Newcastle at Anfield in September 2006.

He caught Magpies goalkeeper Steve Harper cold with a fantastic hit from all of 60.6 yards (to be exact).

Harper maybe ought to have been more prepared.

Alonso had already netted from his own half earlier that year, scoring from more than 70 yards out in the final moments of an FA Cup win at Luton after the Hatters goalkeeper had gone up for a set-piece.

Maynor Figueroa (Stoke City v Wigan Athletic, 2009)

Maynor Figueroa (second left) had a long way to run to celebrate with his team's fans after his cracker for Wigan at Stoke

This mid-table Premier League clash in December 2009 did not look like it would offer a huge amount to the neutral on paper.

However, Wigan's Honduras full-back Maynor Figueroa had other ideas.

After Scott Sinclair was fouled just inside the Stoke half out on their left, he did not wait around to let his team-mates get forward.

Instead, Figueroa launched a shot from where the ball had run dead, back in the Wigan half.

VAR might have taken a look at that nowadays. But, then again, the ball was five yards back, not forwards, so he is hardly pinching territory, is he?

Goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen was having an excellent season for the Potters and later saved a penalty to secure a 2-2 draw, but was helpless as it flew over his despairing dive and into the top corner of his net.

It was one of just four league goals Figueroa scored in 235 appearances in English football for the Latics and Hull City. Not sure the other three were quite as memorable.

Charlie Adam (Chelsea v Stoke City, 2015)

Thibaut Courtois has gone on to win two Champions League titles with Real Madrid so we're sure he can look back and laugh about the time Charlie Adam scored against him from his own half

"It was a fantastic goal - every player in the world would like to score a goal like that. Diego Maradona to Lionel Messi to all these brilliant players."

You know you have done something well when the opposition manager, who just happens to be Jose Mourinho, says this about a goal you have scored.

Thibaut Courtois was beaten all ends up by Charlie Adam's incredible shot from 63.9 yards out for Stoke at Chelsea in April 2015.

It might have come in a defeat by the eventual champions but we're pretty sure not many of you know who scored either goal for the Blues that day.

Adam correctly surmised afterwards that it was a "once-in-a-lifetime" goal.

Only goalkeepers Paul Robinson, Tim Howard and Asmir Begovic - for Tottenham, Everton and Stoke respectively - have scored goals from further out in the Premier League since Opta started collecting records on that stat in 2006-07 - and even they would all admit that, unlike the Scottish midfielder, they were not going for goal.

Josh Windass (Sheffield Wednesday v Derby, 2025)

Josh Windass went into his side's Championship match against Derby in excellent form with a goal in each of his past four appearances.

Boss Danny Rohl, mindful of the loads on players over the busy festive period, decided to rotate the number 10 to the bench for the game against the Rams before bringing him on at half-time.

A managerial masterstroke?

Just over 15 minutes after entering the action, Windass, who was not best pleased about not starting, got the ball about 35 yards out from his own goal, took a touch and...

"I just looked up and I was initially going to try and outpace the defender but the keeper was too far out and I thought 'he's getting done here'," he told BBC Radio Sheffield.

Rams goalkeeper Jacob Widell Zetterstrom was beaten from 62.2 yards, and if his new year's resolution wasn't to not stray too far from his own goal before, it probably is now.

Windass, meanwhile, is hopeful the goal will earn him a nomination for the Fifa Puskas Award, given to the best finish in world football in a year, after feeling he was snubbed last year for a brilliant goal at Blackburn.

So, which is your favourite? Vote below - and you can use the comments section to let us know if there are any own-half stunners we have forgotten.