Bruno Fernandes has been awarded the 2025\u201326 Football Writers\u2019 Association Footballer of the Year after a season in which his creativity and consistency were prominent features of Manchester United\u2019s revival. His performances have been singled out by the football writers who vote on the prize.<\/p>\n
The FWA honour is decided by members of the Football Writers\u2019 Association and is presented annually to “the professional player who by precept and example is considered by a ballot of members to be the footballer of the year.” The prize sits among the season\u2019s principal individual awards and carries considerable esteem among journalists.<\/p>\n
Winners of the FWA award often go on to collect the other major individual prizes in the same season. Players who have completed that sequence in recent years include Erling Haaland (2022\u201323), Phil Foden (2023\u201324) and Mohamed Salah (2024\u201325).<\/p>\n
Fernandes is the first Manchester United player to win the FWA vote since Wayne Rooney in 2009\u201310. It is the 10th occasion that someone from Old Trafford has taken the award, stretching back to the 1940s. Cristiano Ronaldo remains the only two-time winner, a distinction that leaves nine different Manchester United players having now claimed the prize.<\/p>\n
That United lineage includes Johnny Carey (1948\u201349), Bobby Charlton (1965\u201366), George Best (1967\u201368), Eric Cantona (1995\u201396), Roy Keane (1999\u201300), Teddy Sheringham (2000\u201301), Cristiano Ronaldo (2006\u201307 and 2007\u201308) and Wayne Rooney (2009\u201310), with Bruno Fernandes added for 2025\u201326. Liverpool continue to hold the overall record for the most FWA awards, with 16 winners from across the decades.<\/p>\n
The recognition cements Fernandes\u2019s status among the leading figures in English football for the 2025\u201326 campaign and places him alongside the recent roll-call of the country\u2019s standout performers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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