Mohamed Salah, a Liverpool winger, was named the Professional Footballers’ Association’s men’s player of the year while Morgan Rogers, a player for Aston Villa, was named the club’s young player of the year.
For his contributions to football and accomplishments with the national side, Sir Gareth Southgate was named the 2025 PFA merit award winner.
Salah, 33, is the first player to have won the trophy three times in a row after contributing significantly to Liverpool’s title success last season.
When asked if he wanted to win any awards while growing up in Egypt, he responded that: “Of course, I wanted to be a football player, I wanted to be famous, and I wanted to provide for my family, but you don’t think about the big things when you’re still there.
When you mature, you begin to see things differently, have ambitions, and begin to see the bigger picture.
In 2024-25, the Egypt international recorded 29 goals and 18 assists as the top Premier League scorer.
Alexis Mac Allister, Chelsea’s Cole Palmer, and Arsenal’s Declan Rice, a team-mate, were also included in the shortlist.
Rogers enjoys the season that won.
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Rogers is Aston Villa’s fifth representative to win the title of “young player of the season,” following Gary Shaw, Ashley Young, and James Milner.
Steven Gerrard, David Beckham, Wayne Rooney, Gareth Bale, David Beckham, and others who have previously won the award have all been former winners, and Rogers said he wants to be one of the “incredible players people speak about.”
He told BBC Sport, “I want to be one of those incredible players that people talk about later on, so I have to do what they did and what they followed.”
There are more to win, and I’m eagerly anticipating it.
An English player has won the award for the seventh time in a row.
Rogers joined Villa for around £15 million in February 2024, and last year he started his regular job under Unai Emery.
As Villa finished sixth in the Premier League, advanced to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and reached the FA Cup semi-finals, the 23-year-old featured 54 times across all competitions, scoring 14 goals.
He made his debut against Greece in November, earning him his first senior England call-up, and he went on to win six caps.
The award was also up for grabs for Arsenal’s Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri, Dean Huijsen and Milos Kerkez, both of whom left Bournemouth for Real Madrid and Liverpool, and Liam Delap, who is currently a Chelsea player after catching the eye at Ipswich.
After keeping 29 clean sheets to help Burnley finish second and earn automatic promotion to the Premier League, goalkeeper James Trafford, who signed for Manchester City last month, has been named Championship player of the year.
Richard Kone, a former Wycombe striker who is currently on Queens Park Rangers’ books, won the League One award after registering 18 times.
Southgate’s exploits in England were rewarded
Southgate becomes the fifth former England manager to receive the merit award since 1974.
Southgate led England to four major tournaments during his eight-year tenure, which ended in 2016 and 2024, where he reached the finals of Euro 2020 and Euro 2024, and the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup.
Southgate served as England’s senior team’s manager for three years, developing young stars with the Young Lions, before taking over the Under-21s.
One of only three managers to manage 100 games for England, with the 54-year-old playing in the dugout on 102 occasions.
Players at Liverpool and Arsenal dominate the team this year.
Champions Liverpool and runners-up Arsenal were the players’ favorites to win the Premier League team of the year, in their opinion.
Arne Slot’s side included Salah, Mac Allister, Virgil van Dijk, and Ryan Gravenberch, while Arsenal’s roster included Rice, William Saliba, and Gabriel.
Matz Sels and Chris Wood, both left-backs Isak and Kerkez, were the first to be chosen for the Nottingham Forest starting lineup.
Goalkeeper:
Nottingham Forest’s Matz Sels
Defenders:
William Saliba (Arsenal)
Gabriel (Arsenal)
Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
Milos Kerkez (currently Liverpool and Bournemouth)
Midfielders:
Liverpool’s Alexis Mac Allister
Liverpool’s Ryan Gravenberch
(Arsenal) Declan Rice
Forwards:
Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah
Newcastle’s Alexander Isak
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Source: BBC
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