FWA Footballer of the Year

FWA Footballer of the Year

The Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year (often called the FWA Footballer of the Year, or simply the Footballer of the Year) is an annual award given to the player who is adjudged to have been the best of the season in English football. [cite web|url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamHons/HonsFWAFbYr.html|title=England Player Honours – Football Writers' Association Footballers of the Year|publisher=England Football Online|accessdate=2008-03-17|date=2007-06-19] The award has been presented since the 1947–48 season, when the inaugural winner was Blackpool winger Stanley Matthews. The latest winner of the award as of 2008 is Cristiano Ronaldo of Manchester United. Eight players have won the award on more than one occasion, the most recent being Ronaldo, who won his second award in the 2007–08 season.

The winner is selected by a vote amongst the members of the Football Writers' Association (FWA), which comprises around 400 football journalists based throughout England. [cite web|url=http://www.footballwriters.co.uk/about/|title=About the FWA|publisher=Football Writers' Association|accessdate=2008-03-18] The award was instigated at the suggestion of Charles Buchan, a former professional footballer turned journalist and one of the Association's founders. [cite web|url=http://www.footballwriters.co.uk/awards/footballer-of-the-year/|title=FWA Footballer of the Year Award|publisher=Football Writers' Association|accessdate=2008-03-18]

Winners

The award has been presented on 60 occasions as of 2007, with 55 different winners. On one occasion two players shared the award for a season. [cite web|url=http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/engpoy.html|title=England – Players Awards|publisher=RSSSF|accessdate=2008-03-18|date=2007-10-04] The table also indicates where the winning player also won one or more of the other major "player of the year" awards in English football, namely the Professional Footballers' Association's Players' Player of the Year award (PPY), [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/1287470.stm|title=Only here for the peers|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2008-03-14|date=2001-04-20] cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/4935884.stm|title=Gerrard named player of the year |publisher=BBC|accessdate=2008-03-14|date=2006-04-23] cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6582201.stm|title=Ronaldo secures PFA awards double |publisher=BBC|accessdate=2008-03-14|date=2007-04-22] Fans' Player of the Year award (FPY), [cite web|url=http://www.givemefootball.com/rolls_of_honour/fansplayerofyearroll.html|title=PFA's Official Fan's Player of the Year: Previous Winners|publisher=The Professional Footballers' Association|accessdate=2008-03-14] and Young Player of the Year award (YPY). [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/1287799.stm|title=Too much too young?|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2008-03-17|date=2001-04-20|author=Frank Keogh]

ee also

*PFA Players' Player of the Year
*SPFA Players' Player of the Year
*SFWA Footballer of the Year
*PFAI Players' Player of the Year

References

External links

* [http://www.footballwriters.co.uk/ Football Writers' Association]


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