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Who will win the Premier League Golden Awards?

23 May 2025
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Ben Bloom assesses which players could win the Golden Boot, Playmaker and Glove awards for 2024/25

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Football writer Ben Bloom looks at the potential winners of the three Premier League Golden honours.

What are the Premier League Golden Awards? 

At the end of each Premier League season, three individual awards are handed out. 

The Golden Boot recognises the league’s top goalscorer, with Manchester City striker Erling Haaland collecting the gong for the past two seasons. Arsenal legend Thierry Henry is the record winner, having received it four times in his career.

The Playmaker award is given to the player who has provided the most assists. Aston Villa forward Ollie Watkins triumphed last year, while Man City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne has won it a record three times in the seven years it has been awarded. 

The Golden Glove goes to the goalkeeper who has kept the highest number of clean sheets. Arsenal's David Raya collected the award last season. Petr Cech (with Chelsea and Arsenal) and Joe Hart (Man City) both top the all-time charts with four award wins apiece.

Premier League Golden Awards

Click on the arrows to view the Golden Boot, Golden Glove and Playmaker awards

Can Salah achieve a double-double?

The last player to win the Golden Boot and Playmaker awards in the same season was Salah, when notching 23 goals and 13 assists in 2021/22. 

That made him the fourth person to lead the way for both goals and assists in the same Premier League season after Andrew Cole (34 goals, 13 assists for Manchester United in 1993/94), Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (18 goals, 13 assists for Chelsea in 1998/99) and Harry Kane (23 goals, 14 assists for Tottenham Hotspur in 2020/21). 

Salah would become the first person to complete the double for a second time, while a fourth Golden Boot win would put him alongside Henry at the top of the all-time charts. 

Golden Boot 

Despite scoring just once in his last eight Premier League outings, Salah looks highly likely to reclaim a Golden Boot trophy he last won in 2021/22. 

The Liverpool man heads into a final-day meeting with Crystal Palace on 28 Premier League goals, five clear of Newcastle United’s Alexander Isak, who missed his side’s defeat at Arsenal last weekend and is an injury doubt for the last game against Everton

Should Isak play, he would need to match the record of five goals scored in a Premier League game, which is shared by Cole (Man Utd 9-0 Ipswich Town, 1994/95), Alan Shearer (Newcastle 8-0 Sheffield Wednesday, 1999/2000), Jermain Defoe (Spurs 9-1 Wigan Athletic, 2009/10), Dimitar Berbatov (Man Utd 7-1 Blackburn Rovers, 2010/11) and Sergio Aguero (Man City 6-1 Newcastle, 2015/16). 

Haaland, who missed all of Man City's April matches due to an ankle injury, sits in third place on 21 goals. 

Golden Boot race 24/25
Player Club  Goals Final-day fixture
Mohamed Salah LIV 28 CRY (H)
Alexander Isak NEW 23 EVE (H)
Erling Haaland MCI 21 FUL (H)
Chris Wood NFO 20 CHE (H)
Bryan Mbeumo BRE  19 WOL (A)
Yoane Wissa BRE 19 WOL (A)
Playmaker 

The Playmaker standings are near-identical to that of the Golden Boot, with Salah having all-but wrapped up the award, despite providing just one assist in his last nine Premier League matches. 

The Egyptian last won the award in 2021/22 and looked set to overtake Henry and De Bruyne’s record tally of 20 assists in one season before his current dry spell. Nonetheless, two more assists are still within his reach against Palace, which would see him match those two at the top of the charts. 

Competitors are in short supply. Bukayo Saka began the campaign with a remarkable 10 assists in his first 12 league appearances but, after missing a large portion of the season with a hamstring injury, the Arsenal star has not added to that tally since. 

Jacob Murphy, the Newcastle winger, leads the distant chasing pack behind Salah with 12 assists. 

Playmaker race 24/25
Player Club  Assists Final-day fixture
Mohamed Salah LIV 18 CRY (H)
Jacob Murphy NEW 12 EVE (H)
Anthony Elanga NFO 11 CHE (H)
Morgan Rogers AVL 10 MUN (A)
Bukayo Saka ARS 10 SOU (A)
Mikkel Damsgaard BRE  10 WOL (A)
Antonee Robinson FUL 10 MCI (H)
Golden Glove 

With one game remaining, the battle for the Golden Glove is down to two candidates. 

Arsenal goalkeeper Raya picked up last year’s award while on loan from Brentford, and he has a strong chance of retaining the crown despite falling short of his 2023/24 clean-sheets tally. He registered 16 shutouts last year, compared with 13 so far this season. 

The last goalkeeper to win successive Golden Gloves was Man City's Ederson, who claimed three in a row from 2019/20 to 2021/22. 

Level with Raya on 13 is Sels, who has not kept a clean sheet in the last seven Premier League matches. His Forest side face one of the highest-scoring teams in Chelsea on the final day, while Arsenal visit the lowest scorers, Southampton

If Sels does triumph, he would make history for Forest. No goalkeeper from outside of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City and Man Utd has ever won the award, which launched in 2004/05. 

Golden Glove race 24/25
Player Club  Clean sheets Final-day fixture
David Raya ARS 13 SOU (A)
Matz Sels NFO 13 CHE (H)
Previous Golden Glove winners
Season Player Club Clean sheets
2004/05 Petr Cech CHE 24
2005/06 Pepe Reina LIV 20
2006/07 Pepe Reina LIV 19
2007/08 Pepe Reina LIV 18
2008/09  Edwin van der Sar MUN 21
2009/10 Petr Cech CHE 17
2010/11 Joe Hart MCI 18
2011/12 Joe Hart MCI 17
2012/13 Joe Hart MCI 18
2013/14 Petr Cech CHE 16
Wojciech Szczesny ARS 16
2014/15 Joe Hart MCI 14
2015/16 Petr Cech ARS 16
2016/17 Thibaut Courtois CHE 16
2017/18 David De Gea MUN 18
2018/19 Alisson LIV 21
2019/20 Ederson MCI 16
2020/21 Ederson MCI 19
2021/22 Alisson LIV 20
Ederson MCI 20
2022/23 David De Gea MUN 17
2023/24 David Raya ARS 16

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