The Athletic awards 2025-26: Vote for your men’s and women’s young player of the season

It’s awards season and you’re about to have your chance to get involved.

We would like help from our readers in determining who should receive two of our end-of-season awards — men’s young player of the season and women’s young player of the season.

The category will form part of The Athletic’s annual end-of-season awards show, which will be broadcast later this month across social media, and will be available to listen to as a podcast.

You can vote here or via the Google Forms link below. You may need two fingers to scroll along the side of your screen if you’re using a mobile device.

You can vote in both categories or just one of them. The shortlists have been decided by The Athletic’s team of Premier League and WSL experts. To be eligible, the players on the shortlists needed to have been aged 21 or under on July 1, 2025.

Voting will close on Tuesday, May 5.

This article originally appeared in The Athletic.

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