Erling Haaland Beats Arsenal Duo To Win FWA Footballer Of The Year Award With 82% Of Vote

Manchester City star Erling Haaland has been named 2022/23 FWA Footballer of the Year, after topping a vote ahead of Arsenal's Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard.

Robert Summerscales | May 12, 2023

Erling Haaland Beats Arsenal Duo To Win FWA Footballer Of The Year Award With 82% Of Vote /

Manchester City forward Erling Haaland has been named as the Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers' Association.

Haaland has scored 51 times in his first 47 appearances for City, including a record-breaking 35 goals in 32 Premier League matches.

The FWA award was decided by a vote among journalists. Haaland won by a landslide after receiving 82 percent of the vote.

Arsenal players Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard came second and third respectively.

City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne was fourth in the vote, ahead of Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford in fifth.

Haaland is the sixth City player to win the award since its inception in 1948, after Don Revie (1955), Bert Trautmann (1956), Tony Book (1969), Raheem Sterling (2019) and Ruben Dias (2021).

Erling Haaland has broken yet another record, polling 82 per cent of FWA members' votes for Footballer of the Year, the biggest margin in the PL era. Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard were 2nd and 3rd, with Kevin De Bruyne 4th and Marcus Rashford in 5th #FOTY75 #Haaland pic.twitter.com/Cuop0PWD5n
— The Football Writers' Association (@theofficialfwa) May 12, 2023

Erling Haaland pictured celebrating after scoring his 21st goal of the 2022/23 Premier League season for Manchester City (during a home game against Everton on December 31, 2022) — Erling Haaland is the 2022/23 FWA Footballer Of The Year :: IMAGO/News Images/Conor Molloy

Sam Kerr Named FWA Women's Footballer Of The Year Again

Chelsea striker Sam Kerr won the FWA Women's Footballer of the Year prize for the second season in a row.

Australian Kerr has scored 26 goals in 34 Chelsea appearances this season. Ten of those goals have come in the Women's Super League.

Kerr, who is the first ever woman to win the award in consecutive years, got twice as many votes as runner-up Rachel Daly of Aston Villa, while Chelsea's Lauren James finished third.

Sam Kerr pictured performing a backflip after scoring four goals for Chelsea in an 8-0 win over Vllaznia in the Women's Champions League in October 2022 :: IMAGO/PA Images/Bradley Collyer

Published May 12, 2023

ROBERT SUMMERSCALES

Robert Summerscales launched FanNation Futbol in February 2022. Rob is a British journalist who previously spent two years on the sports desk at the Daily Mail in London, having earlier served as editor of CaughtOffside.com. He has been to the last two FIFA Men's World Cups, in Russia and Qatar, and is looking forward to completing his hat-trick in North America in 2026.