Tonight sees probably the most prestigious off-the-pitch nights within the soccer calendar when the nice and good of the sport dress up and head to the PFA Awards, hoping to stroll away with some particular person accolades.
The prizes might be dished out for the 53rd time within the awards’ historical past in Manchester, with all winners chosen by votes from their fellow professionals, and a robust Arsenal affect throughout the largest prizes up for grabs.
David Raya, Gabriel and Declan Rice have all made the six-man shortlist for the boys’s Players’ Player of the Year award, alongside Manchester City pair Rayan Cherki and Erling Haaland, in addition to Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes.
All three Gunners made seismic contributions to our first league title since 2004, as we conceded a league-low 27 Premier League objectives, eight fewer than another aspect.
In the ladies’s class, Alessia Russo is our sole nominee as she seems to be to comply with within the footsteps of final season’s recipient, Mariona Caldentey and add her title to the award’s roll of honour.
2025/26 season was her finest ever in entrance of objective, scoring 24 objectives in 40 matches in all competitions, which included an unforgettable hat-trick in March’s north London derby, which noticed us beat Tottenham Hotspur 5-2 at Emirates Stadium.
The different 5 gamers within the operating for that award are Bunny Shaw (Manchester City), Jess Park (Manchester United), Kirsty Hanson (Aston Villa), Lauren James (Chelsea), and Yui Hasegawa (Manchester City).
At simply 16, Max Dowman’s record-smashing contributions have earned him a nomination for the boys’s Young Player of the Month award. Max is the youngest participant to start out a match, rating a objective or win the title within the Premier League period, and joins 5 different standout younger gamers in Manchester City duo Nico O’Reilly and Rayan Cherki, Kobbie Mainoo of Manchester United, Liverpool’s Rio Ngumoha and Eli Junior Kroupi, who scored for Bournemouth in opposition to Manchester City within the 1-1 draw which in the end secured us the league title.
Olivia Smith in the meantime is hoping to scoop the Women’s Young Player of the Year award for the second season in a row, having finished so in 2025 following her remaining season at Liverpool. In complete, she scored 10 objectives throughout 38 matches in all competitions for us in 2025/26, and is vying for the honour in opposition to Alyssa Thompson (Chelsea), Freya Godfrey (London City Lionesses), Laura Blindkilde Brown (Manchester City), Toko Koga (Tottenham Hotspur), and Veerle Buurman (Chelsea).
As nicely as these 4 prizes, we must also see good illustration within the PFA Team of the Year classes when these are introduced at the ceremony.