Salah and Caldentey win the PFA Player’s Player of the Year awards | OneFootball

Liverpool’s Mohammed Salah and Arsenal’s Mariona Caldentey both won the PFA Player’s Player of the Year awards for the 2025/26 season.

Salah creates history as he becomes the first mens player to ever win the award three times after a stellar campaign for Liverpool last season.

Caldentey won the women’s award in her first season in English football as she came second in the Women’s Super League with Arsenal and won the Champions League in the same season.

Here are the award winners from the night….

PFA Player’s Player of the Year: Mohammed Salah (Liverpool)

The Egyptian’s 29 goals earned him the golden boot and were a key part of Liverpool winning the Premier League for the first time since 2020. Salah also managed 18 assists which was the most in the league too.

PFA Young Player of the Year: Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa)

The English midifielder got eight goals and 11 assists in the Premier League last season for Aston Villa as they finished 6th in the league. At only 23 years of age Rogers played all but one of Villa’s Premier League matches in the 2024/25 season was a major reason why the Midlands side qualified for this years Europa League.

Premier League team of the year:

GK: Matz Sels (Nottingham Forest)

DEF: Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)

DEF: William Saliba (Arsenal)

DEF: Gabriel Magalhaes (Arsenal)

DEF: Milo Kerkez (Bournemouth/ Liverpool)

MID: Declan Rice (Arsenal)

MID: Ryan Gravenberch (Liverpool)

MID: Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool)

ATT: Mohammed Salah (Liverpool)

ATT: Alexander Isak (Newcastle)

ATT: Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest)

Women’s PFA Player’s Player of the Year: Mariona Caldentey

Last year was Caldentey’s first in English football after she moved to north London from Barcelona and she did not take long to settle in. The Spaniard was key for Arsenal last year as they came second in the WSL scoring nine goals for the Gunners.

Women’s PFA Young Player of the Year: Olivia Smith (Liverpool/ Arsenal)

The 21-year-old became the first £1 million transfer in women’s footballl when she moved from Liverpool to champions league winners Arsenal. The Canadian scored seven times last season and was a key player for the Reds. She is also Canada’s youngest ever senior footballer as she played her first game for her country at just 15 years old.

WSL team of the year:

GK: Phallon Tullis-Joyce (Manchester United)

DEF: Emily Fox (Arsenal)

DEF: Jayde Riviere (Manchester United)

DEF: Maya Le Tissier (Manchester United)

DEF: Millie Bright (Chelsea)

MID: Yui Hasegawa (Manchester City)

MID: Erin Cutherbert (Chelsea)

MID: Kim Little (Arsenal)

MID: Mariona Caldentey (Arsenal)

ATT: Alessia Russo (Arsenal)

ATT: Mary Fowler (Manchester City)

PFA Merit Award winners: Gareth Southgate and Emma Hayes