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Salah emerged as the winner from a six-player shortlist including Liverpool teammate Alexis Mac Allister, Chelsea's Cole Palmer, Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes, Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice and Newcastle striker Alexander Isak. (AP Photo)
Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has become the first man to have won the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) Player of the Year award a third time. Arsenal’s Mariona Caldentey was voted the women’s player of the year at the PFA’s award ceremony on Tuesday.
Salah, who was previously voted the Player of the Year in 2018 and 2022, powered Liverpool to the Premier League title by scoring 29 goals and providing 18 assists last season. It was the second time Liverpool had won the Premier League since its first season in 1992/93 and the 20th time overall that the club won England’s top flight league, thus equalling the record held by Manchester United.
The Egyptian star emerged as the winner from a six-player shortlist including Liverpool teammate Alexis Mac Allister, Chelsea’s Cole Palmer, Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes, Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice and Newcastle striker Alexander Isak. Salah had also collected the Football Writers’ Association’s Footballer of the Year award for a third time earlier in the year.
Aston Villa forward Morgan Rogers was voted as the PFA Young Player of the Year — Villa’s first winner since James Milner in 2010 — ahead of fellow nominees Liam Delap (Ipswich / Chelsea), Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri (both Arsenal), Milos Kerkez (Bournemouth / Liverpool) and Dean Huijsen (Bournemouth / Real Madrid). Upon receiving the award, Salah said: “I look at myself now, a guy coming from Egypt and making it to the top level, making history today, it’s something that makes me so proud.”
Liverpool dominated PFA Premier League Team of the Year
Liverpool were also the best represented team in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year. Salah, Mac Allister, Virgil Van Dijk and Ryan Gravenberch were all selected, along with Arsenal’s William Saliba, Gabriel and Declan Rice; Nottingham Forest’s Matz Sels, the goalkeeper in the eleven, and Chris Wood; Bournemouth’s Milos Kerkez, and Newcastle United’s embattled forward Alexander Isak.
The 29-year-old Caldentey enjoyed a brilliant first season at Arsenal, scoring 19 goals in all competitions — including eight on her team’s journey to lifting the Champions League trophy with a victory in the final against her former club, Barcelona. Aston Villa midfielder Morgan Rogers was voted as the men’s young player of the year, while Olivia Smith — the Canada striker now at Arsenal after a world-record transfer — won the women’s equivalent after a strong season at Liverpool
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