Man Utd captain wins award for first time after being voted standout player of Premier League campaign<\/p>\n
Bruno Fernandes has been voted the EA SPORTS Player of the Season for the first time, after being in sensational form for Manchester United<\/a> throughout the 2025\/26 campaign.<\/p>\n Fernandes<\/a> has been the driving force in a resurgent Red Devils side who have secured third place and a UEFA Champions League spot.<\/p>\n The Portuguese has directly contributed to 28 goals \u2014 scoring eight and assisting a joint-record 20 \u2014 in 37 Premier League appearances so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n See: Every EA SPORTS Player of the Season<\/a><\/p>\n His 20th assist, for Bryan Mbeumo<\/a>‘s goal in a 3-2 win over Nottingham Forest<\/a>, moved Fernandes level with ex-Manchester City<\/a> midfielder Kevin De Bruyne<\/a> and former Arsenal<\/a> striker Thierry Henry<\/a> for the most Premier League assists in one season.<\/p>\n “I’m very happy for the assist and for the win, and to finish the season on a high,” Fernandes said after his record-equalling feat.<\/p>\n “I got to 20, let’s see [if I can get to 21], we have one more game. It’s the highest I’ve done in the Premier League so I am very happy with it.”<\/p>\n Watch: All 20 of Fernandes’ assists this season<\/p>\n Fernandes could yet emerge as the Premier League’s all-time assist king should he set up a goal in Sunday’s final match of the 2025\/26 campaign at home to Aston Villa<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 31-year-old has written himself into the history books already, by surpassing David Beckham<\/a>‘s status as Man Utd’s top creator. Beckham previously held the club’s record for the most assists in a single Premier League season, setting up 15 goals in the 1999\/2000 campaign.<\/p>\n Overall, Fernandes has created 132 chances this season, the most in the Premier League and an incredible 43 chances more than the next-best, Liverpool<\/a>‘s Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a>.<\/p>\n In March, Fernandes was voted EA SPORTS Player of the Month<\/a>, equalling the number of times his former Man Utd team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a> won the award (six).<\/p>\n He was recently named the men’s Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association \u2014 Fernandes is the first Man Utd player to win the FWA award since Wayne Rooney<\/a> back in 2009\/10.<\/p>\n The coveted EA SPORTS Player of the Season award has been running since 1994\/95 and Fernandes is the seventh player to receive it while representing Man Utd, following in the footsteps of Peter Schmeichel<\/a>, Dwight Yorke, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ronaldo, Nemanja Vidic<\/a> and Wayne Rooney<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fernandes has won the 2025\/26 award after votes from supporters were combined with those of a panel of experts. He topped an eight-man shortlist that also included Arsenal’<\/a>s Gabriel<\/a>, David Raya<\/a> and Declan Rice<\/a>, Manchester City<\/a> duo Erling Haaland<\/a> and Antoine Semenyo<\/a>, plus Brentford<\/a> striker Igor Thiago<\/a>, and Nottingham Forest<\/a> midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Extended: Fernandes’ 2025\/26 highlights<\/p>\n Next: 13:00 BST Premier League Young Player of the Season winner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man Utd captain wins award for first time after being voted standout player of Premier League campaign Bruno…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-599715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599715","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=599715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}