Premier League Player of the Season

The recipient is chosen by a panel assembled by the league's sponsors consisting of members of "football's governing bodies, the media and fans", and is announced in the second or third week of May.

[6] That same season, Carling introduced individual awards for players, such as the Golden Boot.

[9][10] Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo, Nemanja Vidić and Kevin De Bruyne have been Player of the Season on two occasions each and are the only players to have won the award more than once, with Ronaldo having achieved this in consecutive years (2007 and 2008).

[11][12] Four of these players – Kevin Phillips,[13] Henry,[14] Ronaldo and Luis Suárez – went on to win the European Golden Shoe in the same season.

[15][16] Eleven players have won the Premier League trophy with their respective clubs in the same year they received the award, with Ronaldo and Vidić each accomplishing the feat on two occasions with Manchester United.

Alan Shearer wearing a black jumper with a white collar visible.
Alan Shearer won the inaugural Premier League Player of the Season in 1995.
Peter Schmeichel, with blonde hair and wearing a dark blue sweater, looks down towards his left with an unidentified man in the left background.
Peter Schmeichel , the 1996 winner, is the only goalkeeper to win the award.
Cristiano Ronaldo – wearing a long-sleeved red jersey, white shorts with a number 7 on the left-leg side and a white armband on the left arm – prepares to take a free kick.
Cristiano Ronaldo , the 2007 and 2008 recipient, won his latter award alongside the FIFA World Player of the Year .
Luis Suárez – wearing a red Liverpool FC jersey with the Standard Chartered sponsor logo at the front centre and shorts with a number 7 partially obscured on the left-leg side and the club crest on the right – lifts his hand with his mouth partly opened.
Luis Suárez , the 2014 recipient of the award, is one of four different players to win the European Golden Shoe alongside the Player of the Season award.