{"id":580997,"date":"2026-05-13T03:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580997\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T03:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:30:24","slug":"rio-ngumoha-wins-premier-league-debutant-of-the-season-and-scholar-of-the-year-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580997\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Ngumoha wins Premier League Debutant of the Season and Scholar of the Year awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Rio Ngumoha wins Premier League Debutant of the Season and Scholar of the Year awards\" title=\"Rio Ngumoha wins Premier League Debutant of the Season and Scholar of the Year awards\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rio-ngumoha-liverpool-fc-2-120526_7107607b835036276986cdd84320493c.webp.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/>Published 6 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Glenn Price<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-hg7nzy\">Rio Ngumoha scooped up two prizes at the Premier League Youth Development Conference on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old received the Premier League Home Grown Debutant of the Season accolade on a joint basis alongside Arsenal&#8217;s Max Dowman. <\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool attacker was also one of 27 players to earn a Scholar of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Ngumoha has made 17 Premier League appearances in 2025-26 and scored two goals, the first of which was a late winner away at Newcastle United on his top-flight debut.<\/p>\n<p>Published 6 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 6 hours ago By Glenn Price Rio Ngumoha scooped up two prizes at the Premier League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[607,608,218,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,599,604,101,600,56,54,55,605],"class_list":["post-580997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-football","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}