Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes has claimed the Premier League’s Player of the Season prize for 2025-26.
Fernandes has delivered a remarkable personal season for the Red Devils, producing 20 assists with one Premier League fixture remaining.
He has equalled the all-time single-season mark, drawing level with Thierry Henry in 2002-03 and Kevin De Bruyne in 2019-20, and could move ahead of both in Sunday’s trip to Brighton & Hove Albion.
The Portugal star has also netted eight times, and his combined total of 28 goal involvements has only been surpassed by Erling Haaland with 35 (27 goals and eight assists).
Fernandes has produced 132 chances, at least 58 more than any other player in the division, with Dominik Szoboszlai of Liverpool trailing in second on 74.
From open play, he has generated 95 chances, comfortably ahead of second-placed Jeremy Doku on 59, while his 37 chances created from set-pieces are level with Szoboszlai for the highest tally in the league.
Fernandes becomes the first United player to secure the honour since Nemanja Vidić achieved it in 2010-11. That campaign also marked the fifth straight season a Red Devils player won the award, following successes for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2006-07 and 2007-08, Vidić in 2008-09 and Wayne Rooney in 2009-10.
The seven different winners to earn the accolade while playing for United — including Peter Schmeichel in 1995-96, Dwight Yorke in 1998-99 and Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2002-03 — set a competition benchmark, while the club’s nine total awards are also a league record.
Fernandes overcame rivals including title-winning Arsenal trio Gabriel Magalhães, David Raya and Declan Rice, Manchester City duo Haaland and Antoine Semenyo, Nottingham Forest midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White and Brentford forward Igor Thiago.
United have already secured a third-place finish regardless of the outcome against Brighton on Sunday after officially appointing Michael Carrick as permanent head coach on Friday.
