| Premier League Player of the Season | |
|---|---|
 Liverpool playerMohamed Salah is the current holder of the award. | |
| Awarded for | The most outstanding playerin each given Premier League season |
| Sponsored by | EA Sports |
| Country | England |
| Presented by | Premier League |
| First award | 1995 |
| Currently held by | Mohamed Salah |
| Highlights | |
| Most awards | Thierry Henry,Cristiano Ronaldo,Nemanja Vidić,Kevin De Bruyne,Mohamed Salah (2) |
| Most consecutive wins | Cristiano Ronaldo (2) |
| Most team wins | Manchester United (8) |
| Most consecutive team wins | Manchester United,Manchester City (5) |
| Website | https://www.premierleague.com/awards?at=2&aw=20&se=-1  |
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ThePremier League Player of the Season is an annualassociation football award presented toplayers in England, which recognises the most outstanding player in thePremier League each season. The recipient is chosen by a panel assembled by the league'ssponsors consisting of members of "football's governing bodies, the media and fans", and is announced in the second or third week of May.[1][2] For sponsorship purposes, from 1994 to 2001 it was called theCarling Player of the Year; from 2001 to 2004 as theBarclaycard Player of the Year;[3] and from 2004 to 2016 as theBarclays Player of the Season.[4] Since the2016–17 season, it is called theEA Sports Player of the Season.
The Premier League was founded in 1992, when the clubs of theFirst Division left theFootball League and established a new commercially independent league that negotiated its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements.[5] The newly formed league had nosponsor for itsinaugural season until Carling agreed to a four-year £12 million deal that started thefollowing season.[6] That same season, Carling introduced individual awards for players, such as theGolden Boot.[7] However, thePlayer of the Month and Player of the Season awards were only first bestowed during the1994–95 season.[8][9] The first Player of the Season award was given toBlackburn Rovers strikerAlan Shearer, who won the Premier League title with his team and the Golden Boot that season.[9][10]
Thierry Henry,Cristiano Ronaldo,Nemanja Vidić,Kevin De Bruyne andMohamed Salah have been Player of the Season on two occasions each and are the only players to have won the award more than once, with Ronaldo having achieved this in consecutive years (2007 and 2008). Eight players were the Premier League's leading goalscorer and won the Golden Boot alongside the Player of the Season award.[11][12] Four of these players –Kevin Phillips,[13] Henry,[14] Ronaldo andLuis Suárez – went on to win theEuropean Golden Shoe in the same season.[15][16] Eleven players have won the Premier League trophy with their respective clubs in the same year they received the award, with Ronaldo and Vidić each accomplishing the feat on two occasions withManchester United.[1][17] Ronaldo is the only player to be named Player of the Season and win theFIFA World Player of the Year; when he accomplished this in 2008, he became the first player from the Premier League to be voted the world's top footballer.[18] In 2023Manchester City'sErling Haaland became the first player in Premier League history to win both Player of the Season andYoung Player of the Season awards for the same campaign.[19]
The current holder of the award isLiverpool'sMohamed Salah.
| Player(X) | Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) |
|---|---|
| † | Indicates player also won theEuropean Golden Shoe in the same season |
| ‡ | Indicates player also won theEuropean Golden Shoe andFIFA World Player of the Year in the same season |
| # | Indicates player also won theEuropean Golden Shoe andPremier League Young Player of the Season award in the same season |
| § | Denotes the club werePremier League champions in the same season |
The following table lists the number of awards won by players who have won at least two Player of the Season awards.
Players inbold are still active in the Premier League.
| Country | Players | Total |
|---|---|---|
 England | 7 | 7 |
 Belgium | 3 | 4 |
 France | 3 | 4 |
 Portugal | 2 | 3 |
 Netherlands | 2 | 2 |
 Egypt | 1 | 2 |
 Serbia | 1 | 2 |
 Brazil | 1 | 1 |
 Denmark | 1 | 1 |
 Norway | 1 | 1 |
 Sweden | 1 | 1 |
 Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1 |
 Uruguay | 1 | 1 |
 Wales | 1 | 1 |
| Position | Players | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Forward | 12 | 15 |
| Midfielder | 9 | 10 |
| Defender | 4 | 5 |
| Goalkeeper | 1 | 1 |
| Club | Players | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Manchester United | 6 | 8 |
| Manchester City | 5 | 6 |
| Liverpool | 4 | 5 |
| Arsenal | 3 | 4 |
| Chelsea | 3 | 3 |
| Leicester City | 1 | 1 |
| Blackburn Rovers | 1 | 1 |
| Middlesbrough | 1 | 1 |
| Sunderland | 1 | 1 |
| Tottenham Hotspur | 1 | 1 |
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