The Stoke City Player of the Year award is an award presented to the Stoke City fans' player of the season. Towards the end of each season, fans are invited to cast their votes for this award. The winner is generally announced at an end-of-season awards dinner at either the bet365 Stadium or the King's Hall in Stoke-on-Trent.[1]
The inaugural award was made to Howard Kendall in 1978. Peter Fox has won the award a record three times, Mickey Thomas and Jack Butland are the only other players to have once the award more than once. There have been 13 different nationalities to have won the award.
Key edit
- denotes multiple recipients in the same season
- Player (X) denotes the number of times a player has won the award
Player of the Year winners edit
Wins by playing position edit
| Position | Number of winners |
|---|---|
| Goalkeeper | 8 |
| Defender | 19 |
| Midfielder | 15 |
| Forward | 6 |
Wins by nationality edit
| Nationality | Number of winners |
|---|---|
 England
|
28 |
 Wales
|
3 |
 Republic of Ireland
|
3 |
 Iceland
|
2 |
 Belarus
|
1 |
 Belgium
|
1 |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
1 |
 France
|
1 |
 Germany
|
1 |
 Gibraltar
|
1 |
 Nigeria
|
1 |
 Northern Ireland
|
1 |
 Scotland
|
1 |
 Senegal
|
1 |
 South Korea
|
1 |
 South Africa
|
1 |
References edit
- ^ "Live Coverage Of The Awards Dinner". Stoke City F.C. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ^ "Faye wins twice at Stoke awards". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ^ "Matthew Etherington named Stoke's player of the year". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ^ "Robert Huth named Stoke City's player of the year". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ^ "Crouch Bags Hat-Trick Of Awards". Stoke City F.C. Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ^ "Asmir Begovic sweeps the board at club awards night". The Sentinel. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- ^ "Stoke City: Ryan Shawcross is voted club's player of the year". Stoke Sentinel. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
- ^ "Nzonzi Steals The Show". Stoke City. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
- ^ "Jack Butland leads the way at awards night". Stoke Sentinel. Archived from the original on 11 May 2016. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ "Lee Grant cleans up at Stoke City player-of-the-year awards". Stoke Sentinel. Retrieved 17 May 2017.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Joe Allen named Stoke City player-of-the-year at gala dinner tonight". Stoke Sentinel. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- ^ "BUTLAND LANDS TOP HONOUR". Stoke City. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "McClean lands top honour". Stoke City. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ "Powell named Player of the Year". Stoke City. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ "Brown named Player of the Season". Stoke City. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "Wilmot named Player of the Season". Stoke City. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
- ^ "Bae Junho bags Player of the Season award". Stoke City. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
External links edit
- Stoke City Player of the Year at stokecityfc.com