Phil Foden has been named PFA Players’ Player of the Year following his outstanding 2023/24 season for Manchester City.
Foden anchored City’s charge for the Premier League title, scoring a career-high 19 league goals along with eight assists over the course of the league campaign. There were two hat-tricks included in those 19 goals in victories over Brentford and Aston Villa.
The 24-year-old was also a standout in Europe, finishing City’s Champions League campaign with five goals and three assists in only eight appearances, including a super strike at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Foden is a two-time winner of the PFA Young Player of the Year award, claiming the prize in both 2021 and 2022. He wins the PFA Player of the Year award for the first time, in the same season that also saw him awarded the Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year title.
Manchester City teammate and Spanish international Rodri tipped Foden to be the best in English history:
“I’m so, so happy about Phil. To be honest he’s a very good kid, a very shy kid. For me, he has the ability to be the best English player in history when he finishes his career. He needs to keep the level up in his game, already he’s one of the best players in the league and in Europe.
“I think he could get even better. The quality, ambition and hard work he has every day listening to old people like me is very important. He was outstanding last season and it’s the first season I saw him carrying the team on his back.”
Foden edged teammates Erling Haaland and Rodri to clinch the title, with Arsenal’s Martin Odegaard, Chelsea’s Cole Palmer and Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins also shortlisted in the award’s Top Six.
