Prolific Salah And Caldentey Rewarded With Pfa Player Of The Year Awards

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah and Arsenal’s Mariona Caldentey person won nan 2025 awards for nan Professional Footballers’ Association players’ subordinate of nan year.

Salah becomes nan first subordinate to cod nan prestigious men’s grant 3 times. It would person been a daze had nan Egypt guardant not triumphed connected Tuesday nighttime astatine nan ceremonial successful Manchester, fixed he scored 29 Premier League goals and created a further 18 arsenic Liverpool won nan title past season, nan 33-year-old enjoying 1 of his very champion campaigns of an already gilded career.

Caldentey besides shone successful her first play arsenic an Arsenal player, pinch nan Spain guardant helping nan nine to extremity an 18-year hold for European glory by beating her erstwhile squad Barcelona in nan Champions League final successful Lisbon.

Along nan way, Caldentey scored 19 times successful each competitions, including 7 Champions League goals. She becomes nan 3rd Arsenal subordinate to person nan PFA women’s award, pursuing successful nan footsteps of Kim Little successful 2013 and Vivianne Miedema successful 2019.

Caldentey spent July this twelvemonth successful Switzerland, starring for Spain astatine Euro 2025. She scored nan opening extremity successful the last against England successful Basel earlier ending up pinch a runners-up badge aft nan Lionesses prevailed connected penalties.

Caldentey’s caller Arsenal teammate Olivia Smith is nan women’s young subordinate of nan year, pinch nan balanced men’s grant going to Aston Villa’s Morgan Rogers. Smith, a 21-year-old Canada forward, became nan astir costly signing successful women’s shot history when she arrived successful northbound London from Liverpool for £1m past month. Smith scored 7 goals successful 20 appearances past play and collected a bid of player-of-the-year awards connected Merseyside.

Rogers turned 23 past period and is already a elder England world aft scoring 14 goals successful 54 appearances successful each competitions for Villa past season.

James Trafford has go nan first goalkeeper to triumph nan Championship subordinate of nan twelvemonth grant aft keeping 29 cleanable sheets and conceding only 16 convention goals arsenic Burnley were promoted from nan 2nd tier. No subordinate has registered much cleanable sheets aliases conceded less goals during a play successful nan Football League’s history and it is nary astonishment that Trafford’s excellence prompted his caller return to Manchester City.

Overall, though, it was very overmuch a nighttime for strikers, pinch Richard Kone collecting nan League One honour for nan attacking performances for Wycombe that led to him moving to Queens Park Rangers.

Bromley’s prolific guardant Michael Cheek received nan League Two prize, while location were typical merit awards for nan erstwhile England head Sir Gareth Southgate and nan USA caput coach, Emma Hayes.