PFA Players' Player of the Year: Difference between revisions

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| caption = 20232024 winner [[ErlingPhil HaalandFoden]]

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| mostrecent = {{flagicon|NORENG}} [[ErlingPhil HaalandFoden]] (20232024)

The '''Professional Footballers' Association Men's Players' Player of the Year''' (often called the '''PFA Men's Players' Player of the Year''', the '''Players' Player of the Year''', or simply the '''Player of the Year''') is an annual award given to the player who is adjudged to have been the best of the year in [[Football in England|English football]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamHons/HonsPFAPlyr.html|title=England Player Honours&nbsp;–&nbsp;Professional Footballers' Association Players' Players of the Year|publisher=England Football Online|access-date=14 March 2008|date=19 June 2007}}</ref> The award has been presented since the [[1973–74 in English football|1973–74]] season and the winner is chosen by a vote amongst the members of the players' [[trade union]], the [[Professional Footballers' Association]] (PFA).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/06/29/pfa-remain-confident-annual-player-year-awards-will-go-ahead/|title=PFA remain confident annual Player of the Year awards will go ahead|work=The Daily Telegraph|first=Mike|last=McGrath|access-date=25 August 2020|date=29 June 2020}}</ref> The current holder is [[ErlingPhil HaalandFoden]] of [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]], who won the award for the first time on 2920 August 20232024.<ref name="recent"/>

The first winner of the award was [[Leeds United F.C.|Leeds United]] defender [[Norman Hunter (footballer)|Norman Hunter]]. As of 20232024, only [[Mark Hughes]], [[Alan Shearer]], [[Thierry Henry]], [[Cristiano Ronaldo]], [[Gareth Bale]], [[Kevin De Bruyne]] and [[Mohamed Salah]] have won the award on two occasions, and only Henry, Ronaldo and De Bruyne have won the award in consecutive seasons. Of the seven, only Shearer won his two awards playing for different teams. Although there is a separate [[PFA Young Player of the Year]] award, young players remain eligible to win the senior award, and on three occasions the same player has won both awards for a season, [[Andy Gray (footballer, born 1955)|Andy Gray]] in 1976–77, Ronaldo in 2006–07 and Bale in 2012–13. Only three non-European players have won the award: [[Luis Suárez]] (Uruguay) in 2013–14, [[Riyad Mahrez]] (Algeria) in 2015–16, and [[Mohamed Salah]] (Egypt) in 2017–18 and 2021–22.

The award has been presented on 5051 occasions as of 20232024, with 4344 different winners.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/1287470.stm|title=Only here for the peers|publisher=BBC|access-date=14 March 2008|date=20 April 2001}}</ref><ref name="A1">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/4935884.stm|title=Gerrard named player of the year |publisher=BBC|access-date=14 March 2008|date=23 April 2006}}</ref><ref name="A2">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6582201.stm|title=Ronaldo secures PFA awards double |publisher=BBC|access-date=14 March 2008|date=22 April 2007}}</ref><ref name="rooney10" /> The women's award has been presented since 2013, with 8nine different winners.<ref>{{cite web |date=30 September 2022 |title=PFA Players' Player of the Year winners |url=https://www.sportsadda.com/football/features/pfa-players-player-of-the-year-winners-list |access-date=14 May 2023 |website=SportsAdda}}</ref> The table also indicates where the winning player also won one or more of the other major "player of the year" awards in English football, namely the Football Writers' Association's [[FWA Footballer of the Year|Footballer of the Year]] award (FWA),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/engpoy.html|title=England&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;Players Awards|access-date=18 March 2008|website=[[RSSSF]]|date=4 October 2007}}</ref> the [[PFA Fans' Player of the Year]] award (FPY),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.givemefootball.com/rolls_of_honour/fansplayerofyearroll.html |title=PFA's Official Fan's Player of the Year: Previous Winners |publisher=The Professional Footballers' Association |access-date=14 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220145853/http://www.givemefootball.com/rolls_of_honour/fansplayerofyearroll.html |archive-date=20 February 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the [[PFA Young Player of the Year]] award (YPY),<ref name="A1" /><ref name="A2" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/1287799.stm|title=Too much too young?|publisher=BBC|access-date=17 March 2008|date=20 April 2001|author=Frank Keogh}}</ref> the [[Premier League Player of the Season]] award (PPS),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.premierleague.com/history/awards?se=-1&aw=20 |publisher=[[Premier League]] |access-date=9 September 2020|title=Player of the Season}}</ref> the [[Premier League Young Player of the Season]] award (PYS) and the Football Supporters’ Federation [[Football Supporters' Federation#FSF Player of the Year Award|Player of the Year]] award (FSF).<ref>{{cite web|title=The FSF Awards in association with William Hill (Monday 16th Dec)|url=http://fsf.org.uk/latest-news/view/the-fsf-awards-in-association-with-william-hill-monday-16th-december|publisher=Football Supporters’ Federation|access-date=18 July 2015|date=14 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722082653/http://fsf.org.uk/latest-news/view/the-fsf-awards-in-association-with-william-hill-monday-16th-december|archive-date=22 July 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:Cristiano Ronaldo 2018.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Cristiano Ronaldo]] was the first player to win all five major awards in the same year.]]

| [[2022–23 in English football|2022–23]] || {{sort|{{flagicon|NOR}}|| align="left" | [[Erling Haaland]]|| align="left" |[[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]]||FWA, FPY, PPS, PYS ||<ref name="recent">{{cite news|title=Man City's Haaland wins PFA Player of the Year|publisher=BBC Sport|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66650723|date=29 August 2023|access-date=29 August 2023}}</ref>

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