{"id":685867,"date":"2026-06-05T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685867\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:35:11","slug":"rio-ngumoha-shortlisted-for-pfa-young-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685867\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Ngumoha shortlisted for PFA Young Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Rio Ngumoha shortlisted for PFA Young Player of the Year\" title=\"Rio Ngumoha shortlisted for PFA Young Player of the Year\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rio-ngumoha-03062026_5b40b85e4ef4766e55ad20db9bb1175d.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 3 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Chris Shaw<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-hg7nzy\">Liverpool forward Rio Ngumoha has been shortlisted for the PFA Young Player of the Year award for 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>Ngumoha\u2019s breakthrough campaign in the past season saw him make 29 appearances for the Reds and score twice.<\/p>\n<p>The first of his goals \u2013 a winner deep into stoppage time of the Premier League clash at Newcastle United last August \u2013 made him the club\u2019s youngest scorer in history.<\/p>\n<p>Ngumoha was then on target with his first competitive strike at Anfield when Fulham were beaten in the league in April.<\/p>\n<p>He is up against Rayan Cherki, Max Dowman, Junior Kroupi, Kobbie Mainoo and Nico O\u2019Reilly for the prestigious accolade.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced at the PFA Awards on August 25.<\/p>\n<p>Published 3 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 3 hours ago By Chris Shaw Liverpool forward Rio Ngumoha has been shortlisted for the PFA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1720,1721,1708,1716,1710,1722,1724,1723,1711,1715,1714,1709,1719,1712,1717,403,99,1713,1718],"class_list":["post-685867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","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-soccer","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}