Haaland, Fernandes and O’Reilly headline Premier League 2025/26 season awards

The 2025/26 Premier League season ended with Arsenal as champions, Erling Haaland winning the Golden Boot, Bruno Fernandes taking the Player of the Season award and Nico O’Reilly being named the league’s best young player.

The Premier League 2025/26 season produced a strong mix of team success, individual records and breakthrough performances. Arsenal finished the campaign as champions, ending a 22-year wait for the English title and claiming their 14th top-flight championship. 

Erling Haaland finished as the league’s top scorer and won the Premier League Golden Boot. The Manchester City forward scored 27 goals, finishing ahead of Brentford striker Igor Thiago and City teammate Antoine Semenyo. It was Haaland’s third Golden Boot after his previous wins in 2022/23 and 2023/24, leaving him one behind the all-time record shared by Thierry Henry and Mohamed Salah.

Bruno Fernandes was one of the standout individual stories of the season. The Manchester United captain won the Premier League Player of the Season award and also claimed the Golden Playmaker prize after recording 21 assists, a new single-season Premier League record. His total surpassed the previous benchmark of 20 assists, shared by Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne.

Nico O’Reilly was named Premier League Young Player of the Season after a breakthrough campaign with Manchester City. The award is given to the best-performing player who was aged 21 or younger at the start of the season, and O’Reilly became the latest City player to win it after Phil Foden and Haaland in previous years.

Arsenal also had another major individual winner in David Raya. The Spanish goalkeeper won the Golden Glove after keeping 19 clean sheets in 37 appearances. It was his third consecutive Golden Glove, putting him among a small group of goalkeepers to win the award three seasons in a row.

The season’s honours underline how competitive the campaign was. Arsenal delivered the team achievement by finally reclaiming the Premier League title, Haaland confirmed his status as the division’s most reliable scorer, Fernandes produced a historic creative season, and O’Reilly emerged as one of the league’s brightest young players. Together, these awards give the 2025/26 season a clear identity: Arsenal’s return to the top, City’s continued individual quality and Manchester United’s reliance on a captain who delivered one of the best creative campaigns in Premier League history.