Man City’s Phil Foden and Bunny Shaw named PFA Players of the Year

Phil Foden has won two individual awards by being named the Professional Football Association (PFA) Player of the Year for 2024, three months after he won the FWA Footballer of the Year award following Manchester City’s fourth successive Premier League title.

The 24-year-old Foden is the fourth City player in five years to be voted Player of the Year by his professional colleagues, after Kevin De Bruyne (2020, 2021) and Erling Haaland (2023) who both won the award in recent years.

The England forward, who previously won the PFA Young Player of the Year award in 2021 and 2022, was presented with the Player’s Player of the Year trophy at the PFA Awards dinner in Manchester on Tuesday.

Manchester City Women’s striker Khadija Shaw won the Player of the Year award after topping the WSL scoring charts with 21 goals last season, eight more than her nearest rivals Lauren James and Elisabeth Terland.

Like Foden, Jamaican international Shaw also won the Football Writers’ Association (FWA) Female Player of the Year award at the end of the 2023–24 season.

Chelsea forward Cole Palmer has been named winner of the PFA Young Player of the Year award after scoring 27 goals and providing 15 assists in all competitions in his first season at Stamford Bridge. The transfer fee was £40 million ($52 million) and he joined from City last August.

The 22-year-old also broke into the England squad last season, ending the campaign with a goal in the final of Euro 2024, which they lost to Spain in Berlin in July.

Manchester United Women’s midfielder Grace Clinton has been named Young Women’s Player of the Year following a successful loan spell at Tottenham last season.