Phil Foden Named As FWA Player Of The Year

By Sportsgister

Manchester City player, Phil Foden, has won the Footballer Writers’ Association’s Footballer of the Year awards for the 2023/24 season.

Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw also from Manchester City won the women’s awards.

Foden won 42 per cent of members votes and is the third Man City player in four years to win the men’s Footballer of the Year award after Ruben Dias in 2021 and Erling Haaland in 2023.

The playmaker finished ahead of Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice and Man City team-mate Rodri in second and third respectively. Martin Odegaard, Ollie Watkins and Cole Palmer made up the top six.

Foden, 23, has scored 16 Premier League goals this season, assisting a further seven.

He has also scored five Champions League goals with three assists, and two goals in the FA Cup.