The shortlist for the 2025 Men\u2019s Club of the Year award features five notable teams. Barcelona and Liverpool are both vying for their first win since the award was introduced in 2021. Liverpool aims to build on their Premier League success under manager Arne Slot. Paris Saint-Germain secured their spot as Champions League winners. Chelsea, who triumphed over PSG in this summer\u2019s Club World Cup final, are contenders to become the second club to win the award twice, following Manchester City\u2019s back-to-back wins in 2022 and 2023. Brazilian club Botafogo, victorious in the 2024 Copa Libertadores, complete the men\u2019s shortlist.<\/p>\n
On the Women\u2019s Club of the Year front, five clubs compete for the honor. Arsenal, having won the Women\u2019s Champions League, are prominent candidates. Both Chelsea and Barcelona have nominees on the list, alongside Lyon and Orlando Pride, rounding out the selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 2025 Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Club of the Year nominees include Barcelona, Liverpool, Chelsea, and Arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epl","category-trophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}