Liverpool's Egyptian striker #11 Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring the team's second goal during the English Premier League football match between Everton and Liverpool at Goodison Park in Liverpool, north west England on February 12, 2025.AFP
Mohamed Salah has become the fifth player in Premier League history to win the Player of the Season award more than once.
He first earned the honour in his sensational debut campaign for Liverpool in 2017–18.
With this latest win, he joins an elite group of two-time recipients that includes Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo, Nemanja Vidić, and Kevin De Bruyne.
The 32-year-old was selected from an eight-man shortlist through a combination of public votes and input from a panel of football experts.
Other nominees included his Liverpool teammates Virgil van Dijk and Ryan Gravenberch, as well as Morgan Gibbs-White, Alexander Isak, Bryan Mbeumo, Declan Rice and Chris Wood.
Salah’s triumph comes just two days after he was named the 2025 Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year, equalling the record for most wins of that award with three.
The back-to-back honours cap a historic campaign in which he has delivered one of the most dominant individual performances in Premier League history.
With one match remaining, Salah has registered 28 goals and 18 assists in 37 appearances—leading the league in both categories—and played a decisive role in Liverpool’s title victory, secured with four games to spare.
If he retains his lead in both metrics, he will become the first player ever to win the Golden Boot, Golden Playmaker, and Player of the Season in the same campaign.
He has already become the first player to record more than 46 goal involvements in a 38-game Premier League season, falling just one short of the all-time record of 47 set by Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole in 42-match campaigns.
Salah also stands two assists away from matching the single-season assist record of 20, jointly held by Henry and De Bruyne.
This season has also seen him surpass Sergio Agüero as the Premier League’s highest-scoring overseas player, with 185 goals.
He now ranks fifth in the league’s all-time scorers list, behind only Shearer (260), Harry Kane (213), Wayne Rooney (208), and Cole (187).
With two years remaining on his Liverpool contract, Salah appears poised to climb even higher in the record books—and to keep rewriting Premier League history.
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