Every two-time Premier League Player of the Season winner as Salah crowned again | OneFootball

The Premier League has crowned Mo Salah as the Player of the Season for 2024/25, the second time the Liverpool winger has won the award in his career.

The Egypt international is just the fifth player to claim the gong twice, following in the footsteps of some of the English top-flights most legendary figures.

Here are the footballers Salah has managed to emulate following another sensational campaign.

Every two-time Premier League Player of the Season winner:

Thierry Henry – 2003/04 & 2005/06

Arguably the best player in Premier League history, Thierry Henry was first handed this honour after playing a pivotal role in Arsenal‘s Invincible season in 2003/04. The Frenchman scored 30 league goals, and 39 in all competitions that year. He almost had a clean sweep of awards, picking up the PFA Players’ Player of the Year, FWA Footballer of the Year and European Golden Shoe, but finished runner-up for the FIFA World Player of the Year behind Ronaldinho.

Although the Gunners didn’t win anything in 2005/06, Henry had an incredible campaign. He broke Ian Wright’s club record of 185 goals and Cliff Bastin’s record of 151 league goals for Arsenal, and scored scored his 100th goal at Highbury. He ended the season as the Premier League’s top goal scorer on 27 goals, was voted the FWA Footballer of the Year for a third time, and won his second Premier League Player of the Season award.

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Cristiano Ronaldo – 2006/07 & 2007/08

After years of showing promise with little end product, Cristiano Ronaldo dominated the English top flight in 2006/07, winning the Premier League Player of the Season award as well as becoming the first player to win all four main PFA and FWA honours.

The winger was even better the following season, improving his goal tally in all competitions from 23 to 42, winning the European Golden Shoe in the process. He won the Champions League and Ballon d’Or, and was named the league’s best footballer again.

He remains the only player to retain the award in successive years.

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Nemanja Vidic – 2008/09 & 2010/11

The first defender to win this award was not Rio Ferdinand or Sol Campbell or John Terry, but Nemanja Vidic. And he was so good he did it twice.

The no-nonsense centre-back struck up a legendary partnership with Ferdinand that was the backbone of Manchester United‘s success in the late noughties. In 2008/09 Vidic was named the division’s top player after the Red Devils won a third consecutive league title.

Wayne Rooney kept the award the safe the following year before Vidic won it again after yet another Premier League title, this time as club captain. Only two defenders have since won the Premier League Player of the Season; Virgil van Dijk and Ruben Dias.

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Kevin De Bruyne – 2019/20 & 2021/22

This summer Kevin De Bruyne will leave Manchester City with his place among the pantheon of greatest ever Premier League players assured. His list of achievements and accolades are proof of that, as if it were needed.

City may have lost the title to Liverpool in 2019/20, but De Bruyne had the best individual season of any player, providing a joint-record 20 assists for his teammates on top of scoring 13 goals.

Two years later De Bruyne laid on ‘just’ eight assists, but did score a personal best 15 league goals, making him City’s top goalscorer in the competition that season. The Belgian put on an absolute masterclass against Wolves in May, scoring four goals in 23 minutes. He also set up Ilkay Gundogan for the winner against Aston Villa on the final day, ensuring they beat Liverpool to the title and securing his fourth Premier League winner’s medal.

That performance may have put him over the edge for the Player of the Season award ahead of the likes of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Jarrod Bowen, Joao Cancelo, Bukayo Saka, Salah, Son Heung-min and James Ward-Prowse.

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Mo Salah – 2017/18 & 2024/25

Few predicted that Mo Salah would put up one of the all-time great individual seasons when he returned to the Premier League with Liverpool. His short time at Chelsea certainly did not project a player who would go on to register 32 goals and 10 assists in just 36 games.

Further signings helped turn Liverpool into true world beaters again, but it was Salah who provided the inspiration for it all. Without him there wouldn’t be a sixth Champions League, two Premier League titles or cup wins.

Given how special a footballer he is, it’s remarkable that it took seven years to make him Premier League Player of the Season a second time. He would not be denied this year, though, after finding the net 28 times in 37 starts. He also has 18 assists, two off Henry and De Bruyne’s single season record.

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