Premier League Player of the Season

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Premier League Player of the Season
Alan Shearer wearing a black jumper with a white collar visible
Alan Shearer won the inaugural award in 1995.
Awarded for The most outstanding player in a given Premier League season.
Sponsor Barclays
Country England
Presented by The Football Association
First awarded 1995
Last awarded 2016
Currently held by Jamie Vardy
Highlights
Most awards Cristiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, Nemanja Vidic (2)
Most Consecutive Wins Cristiano Ronaldo (2)
Team with most wins Manchester Utd (8)
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The Premier League Player of the Season is an annual association football award presented to players in England, which recognises the most outstanding player in the Premier League each season. The recipient is chosen by a panel assembled by the league's sponsor – currently Barclays – 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 the Carling Player of the Year and from 2001 to 2004, the Barclaycard Player of the Year;[3] as of 2015, it is referred to as the Barclays Player of the Season.[4][5]

The Premier League was founded in 1992, when the clubs of the First Division left The Football League and established a new commercially independent league that negotiated its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements.[4] The newly formed league had no sponsor for its inaugural season until Carling agreed to a four-year £12 million deal that started the following season.[6] That same season, Carling introduced individual awards for players, such as the Golden Boot.[7] However, the Player of the Month and Player of the Season awards were only first bestowed during the 1994–95 season.[8][9] The first Player of the Season award was given to Blackburn Rovers striker Alan Shearer, who won the Premier League title with his team and the Golden Boot that season.[9][10]

Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo and Nemanja Vidić 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 and Luis Suárez – went on to win the European Golden Shoe in the same season.[15][16] 11 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 with Manchester United.[1][17] Ronaldo is the only player to be named Player of the Season and win the FIFA World Player of the Year; when he accomplished this in 2008, he became the first player from the Premier League to voted the world's top footballer.[18]

Thierry Henry, wearing a red shirt with white long sleeves and shorts with a number 12 and Nike logo on the left-leg side, applauds.
Nemanja Vidić, wearing a red Manchester United jersey with the AIG sponsor logo at the front centre and shorts with a number 15 and Nike logo on the left-leg side, looks forward with his mouth partly opened.
Thierry Henry (left), Cristiano Ronaldo (not pictured) and Nemanja Vidić (right) have won the most Player of the Season awards with two each.

Winners

Peter Schmeichel, with blonde hair and wearing a dark blue sweater, looks down towards his left with an unidentified man in the left background.
Peter Schmeichel, the 1996 winner, is the only goalkeeper to win the award.
Cristiano Ronaldo – wearing a long-sleeved red jersey, white shorts with a number 7 on the left-leg side and a white armband on the left arm – prepares to take a free kick.
Cristiano Ronaldo, the 2007 and 2008 recipient, won his latter award alongside the FIFA World Player of the Year.
Luis Suárez – wearing a red Liverpool FC jersey with the Standard Chartered sponsor logo at the front centre and shorts with a number 7 partially obscured on the left-leg side and the club crest on the right – lifts his hand with his mouth partly opened.
Luis Suárez, the 2014 recipient of the award, is one of four different players to win the European Golden Shoe alongside the Player of the Season award.
Key
Player (X) Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
dagger Indicates player also won the European Golden Shoe in the same season
double-dagger Indicates player also won the European Golden Shoe and FIFA World Player of the Year in the same season
§ Denotes the club were Premier League champions in the same season
Premier League Player of the Season winners
Season Player Position[upper-alpha 1] Nationality Club Ref(s)
1994–95 Alan Shearer Forward  England Blackburn Rovers§ [19]
1995–96 Peter Schmeichel Goalkeeper  Denmark Manchester United§ [20]
1996–97 Juninho Midfielder  Brazil Middlesbrough [21]
1997–98 Michael Owen Forward  England Liverpool [22]
1998–99 Dwight Yorke Forward  Trinidad and Tobago Manchester United§ [23]
1999–2000 Kevin Phillipsdagger Forward  England Sunderland [24]
2000–01 Patrick Vieira Midfielder  France Arsenal [25]
2001–02 Freddie Ljungberg Midfielder  Sweden Arsenal§ [26]
2002–03 Ruud van Nistelrooy Forward  Netherlands Manchester United§ [27][28]
2003–04 Thierry Henrydagger Forward  France Arsenal§ [29][30]
2004–05 Frank Lampard Midfielder  England Chelsea§ [31][32]
2005–06 Thierry Henry (2) Forward  France Arsenal [33][34]
2006–07 Cristiano Ronaldo Midfielder  Portugal Manchester United§ [1]
2007–08 Cristiano Ronaldodouble-dagger (2) Midfielder  Portugal Manchester United§ [1][18]
2008–09 Nemanja Vidić Defender  Serbia Manchester United§ [35]
2009–10 Wayne Rooney Forward  England Manchester United [36]
2010–11 Nemanja Vidić (2) Defender  Serbia Manchester United§ [37]
2011–12 Vincent Kompany Defender  Belgium Manchester City§ [38]
2012–13 Gareth Bale Midfielder  Wales Tottenham Hotspur [39]
2013–14 Luis Suárezdagger Forward  Uruguay Liverpool [40]
2014–15 Eden Hazard Midfielder  Belgium Chelsea§ [5]
2015–16 Jamie Vardy Forward  England Leicester City§ [41]

Awards won by nationality

Country Wins
 England 6
 France 3
 Belgium 2
 Portugal 2
 Serbia 2
 Denmark 1
 Brazil 1
 Trinidad and Tobago 1
 Sweden 1
 Netherlands 1
 Wales 1
 Uruguay 1

Awards won by club

Club Wins
Manchester United 8
Arsenal 4
Liverpool 2
Chelsea 2
Leicester City 1
Blackburn Rovers 1
Middlesbrough 1
Sunderland 1
Manchester City 1
Tottenham Hotspur 1

Notes

  1. ↑ The Premier League general reference below links to the database search of all footballers who have played in the league, where the profiles of each winner can be found and their position verified.

References

General

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