The nominees for the 2025-26 EA SPORTS Premier League Player of the Season have been announced. On 23 May, the prize will be awarded to the most outstanding player in the competition across 2025-26.
The last five winners of the award have played for the eventual Premier League champions that season, with Mohamed Salah winning the most recent POTS award after helping Liverpool to the 2024-25 title. The Egyptian doesn’t make the eight-player list of nominees this time, however.
Erling Haaland is the only previous winner named among the 2025-26 nominees. Can the Manchester City striker become just the sixth player to win the POTS award twice, or will one of the other seven prevail?
Here, we assess the stats behind the nominees’ respective seasons, outlining why they deserve to be in the running for the 2025-26 Premier League Player of the Season award.
Bruno Fernandes
Erling Haaland has now made the shortlist for the Premier League Player of the Season in three of his four campaigns at Manchester City since joining the club in the summer of 2022, only missing out on being nominated for the award last season.
He looks set to finish as the Premier League’s Golden Boot winner for the third time, with the Norwegian scoring 26 goals in 2025-26 – four ahead of nearest rival Igor Thiago. The only players to have won the Premier League Golden Boot at least three times are Thierry Henry (4), Mohamed Salah (4), Alan Shearer (3) and Harry Kane (3).
Keeping up his remarkable consistency in front of goal, Haaland has converted at least 20% of his shots for the fourth successive Premier League season (21.0%), but he’s also helped create goals for teammates. With eight assists in 2025-26, he’s equalled his best ever tally in a Premier League campaign (also 8 in 2022-23) and created as many goals as he did in the previous two seasons combined (5 in 2023-24 and 3 in 2024-25).
Haaland is looking to win the award for a second time after previously being named the Premier League Player of the Season in 2022-23. Only five players have won the award twice since it began in 1994-95: Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo, Nemanja Vidic, Kevin De Bruyne and Salah.
Gabriel Magalhães
Declan Rice is set to end his third season as an Arsenal player, and he’s earned a spot on the eight-man shortlist for the Premier League Player of the Season in all three of them.
A reliable figure in the Gunners’ midfield, no outfielder has played more league minutes for Arsenal this season than Rice (3,009), with the England international missing just one of their 36 league matches in 2025-26.
As Arsenal’s most creative player in 2025-26, Rice has created 63 chances for his teammates and has accumulated a team-high 6.9 expected assists (xA). Much of his creative threat comes from his set-piece delivery – no player has a higher xA total from corners and indirect free-kicks than Rice in the Premier League this season (3.2).
Rice has remained just as essential for Mikel Arteta’s side with and without the ball. He leads all Arsenal players for possession regains per 90 minutes (5.2) and has averaged 80 touches per 90 in the Premier League this season, the most involved that Rice has ever been in a single top-flight league campaign.
The last Arsenal player to win the Premier League Player of the Season award was Thierry Henry in 2005-06, but with Rice among three Gunners players to make the shortlist this time around, that drought might be about to come to an end.
As one of only two English players in the shortlist, Rice has a chance of becoming just the second Englishman to win the Premier League Player of the Season award since 2016-17, after Phil Foden’s victory in 2023-24.
Antoine Semenyo
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