The Premier League is the highest level of the men’s English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football League. Seasons typically run from August to May with each team playing 38 matches.
Who is currently the best player in the Premier League?
Mohamed Salah voted Premier League PFA player of the season
Like every year, the Premier League players’ union voted to elect the best player, but also the best hope of the season. For this 2021-2022 financial year, Mohamed Salah has been designated in the first category, for the second time since 2017-2018. Phil Foden is his best youngster, as in the previous season.
Who is the most popular footballer in 2022?
A remarkable performance for Mohamed Salah, already voted FWA player of the season (vote by journalists) on April 29. He is the first player to achieve this double since… himself (2017-2018). This season, despite participating in the CAN, the Egyptian finished top scorer in the Premier League (23 goals), tied with Son of Tottenham.
Mohamed Salah
Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Egypt national team.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro GOIH ComM is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United and captains the Portugal national team.
Kevin De Bruyne
Kevin De Bruyne is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the Belgium national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best players in the world and of his generation. Pundits have often described him as a “complete footballer”.
Trent Alexander-Arnold
Trent John Alexander-Arnold is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Liverpool and the England national team. Known for his range of passing and providing assists, he is regarded as one of the best right-backs in world football.
Erling Haaland
Erling Braut Haaland is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Norway national team. Considered one of the best players in the world, he is known for his athleticism, speed and finishing.
Nathaniel Chalobah
Nathaniel Nyakie Chalobah is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or defender for Premier League club Fulham. Born in Sierra Leone, he has represented the England national team.
Son Heung-min
Son Heung-min is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and captains the South Korea national team.
Virgil van Dijk
Virgil van Dijk is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team. Considered one of the best defenders in the world, Van Dijk is known for his strength, leadership and aerial ability.
Bukayo Saka
Bukayo Ayoyinka T. M. Saka is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger, left-back, or midfielder for Premier League club Arsenal and the England national team. Saka is known for his attacking incisiveness and creativity, and is often considered one of the best young football players in the world.
Harry Kane
Harry Edward Kane MBE is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and captains the England national team. Regarded as one of the best strikers in the world, Kane is known for his prolific goalscoring record and ability to link play.
João Cancelo
João Pedro Cavaco Cancelo is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a full-back or as a wing-back for Premier League club Manchester City and the Portugal national team. A creative, skillful, strong, and versatile full-back, he is considered to be one of the best full-backs in the world.
Alisson Becker
Alisson Ramses Becker, commonly known as Alisson, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Liverpool and the Brazil national team. He is widely regarded to be one of the best goalkeepers in the world due to his distribution and ability in one-on-one situations.
Tyler Adams
Tyler Shaan Adams is an American professional soccer player who plays for Premier League club Leeds United and the United States national team.
David de Gea
David de Gea Quintana is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Manchester United and the Spain national team. During the mid-2010s, he was widely regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the world.
Bruno Fernandes
Bruno Miguel Borges Fernandes is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Manchester United and the Portugal national team. Fernandes is known for his goalscoring, playmaking, leadership, penalty taking, and work rate.
Phil Foden
Philip Walter Foden is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the England national team. He is considered one of the best young players in the world.
Declan Rice
Declan Rice is an English professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for Premier League club West Ham United and the England national team.
Conor Gallagher
Conor John Gallagher is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Chelsea and the England national team. Beginning his career with Chelsea, he has spent loan spells at Charlton Athletic, Swansea City, West Bromwich Albion, and Crystal Palace.
Martin Ødegaard
Martin Ødegaard is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Arsenal and the Norway national team.
Fábio Carvalho
Fábio Leandro Freitas Gouveia Carvalho is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool. A former youth international for England, Carvalho now represents Portugal internationally at under-21 level.
Emerson Royal
Emerson Aparecido Leite de Souza Junior, known as Emerson Royal or simply Emerson, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Brazil national team.
Granit Xhaka
Granit Xhaka is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Arsenal and captains the Switzerland national team. Xhaka began his career at hometown club Basel, winning the Swiss Super League in each of his first two seasons.
Wesley Fofana
Wesley Tidjan Fofana is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Premier League club Chelsea and the France national under-21 team.
Gabriel Martinelli
Gabriel Teodoro Martinelli Silva, known as Gabriel Martinelli, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Arsenal and the Brazil national team.
Luis Suárez
Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Uruguayan Primera División club Nacional and the Uruguay national team. Nicknamed El Pistolero, he is known for his passing, finishing and comfort with the ball.
Clément Lenglet
Clément Nicolas Laurent Lenglet is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur on loan from La Liga club Barcelona and the France national team.
Danny Welbeck
Daniel Nii Tackie Mensah Welbeck is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion. Welbeck made his way through the youth teams at Manchester United before making his senior debut in 2008 and scoring in the process.
Odsonne Édouard
Odsonne Édouard is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Crystal Palace. Having progressed through the youth ranks of AF Bobigny, Édouard signed with Paris Saint-Germain in July 2011 before being loaned to fellow Ligue 1 side Toulouse for the 2016–17 season.
William Saliba
William Alain André Gabriel Saliba is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Arsenal and the France national team.
Daniel James
Daniel Owen James is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Fulham, on loan from Leeds United. Born in England, he represents the Wales national team. James made his professional debut for Swansea City in February 2018, and signed for Manchester United in June 2019.
Gabriel Magalhães
Gabriel dos Santos Magalhães is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as centre-back for Premier League club Arsenal.
Callum Wilson
Callum Eddie Graham Wilson is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Newcastle United.
Roberto Firmino
Roberto Firmino Barbosa de Oliveira is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and the Brazil national team. After starting his career with Figueirense in 2009, he spent four-and-a-half seasons at Hoffenheim.
Premier League Player of the Season
The Premier League Player of the Season is an annual award given since 1995 to the Premier League’s best player of the season. The winner is chosen by vote and the voters are representatives of Premier League sponsors, several media, British football authorities and supporters. The name of the winner is usually announced during the second or third week of May.
The Premier League announced last week that its 2022-23 season will start on August 6 next year, before finishing on May 28, 2023, with all matches in the final round kicking off simultaneously. There will be a mid-season break between November 14 and December 26 in order to accommodate the World Cup.
The Premier League is a private company wholly owned by its 20 Member Clubs who make up the League at any one time. Each individual club is independent, working within the rules of football, as defined by the Premier League, The FA, UEFA and FIFA, as well as being subject to English and European law.
Britannica Dictionary definition of FOOTBALLER. [count] chiefly British. : a person who plays soccer. ◊ In U.S. English, a person who plays soccer is usually called a soccer player. A person who plays American football is called a football player.
