Jump to content

Serie A Player of the Month

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A red man wearing a Bayern Munich red shirt with a bench behind him.
Franck Ribéry was the inaugural recipient of the award in September 2019.
A man wearing a Argentina shirt with white and light blue stripes running on a football field
Paulo Dybala has won the award a record five times.

The Serie A Player of the Month, officially known as the EA Sports FC Player of the Month for sponsorship reasons,[1] is an association football award that recognises the best player each month in Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league system. The winner is chosen by an online public vote, in which voters choose from five nominees. The nominees are chosen through analysis by data tracking software, which consider statistical data, positional data and the contribution to the technical and physical efficiency of the team.[2]

The first award was assigned to Fiorentina player Franck Ribéry for his performances in September 2019. Paulo Dybala has won the award a record five times; he, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Rafael Leão are the only three players to win the award multiple times in the same season, while Kvaratskhelia is the only player to win in consecutive months. Napoli players have won the award a record eleven times and they alongside Atalanta are the only clubs to have players win the award in consecutive months. Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Dybala, Dušan Vlahović and Moise Kean are the only players to win the award with two different teams: AC Milan and Inter Milan for Çalhanoğlu, Juventus and Roma for Dybala and Fiorentina and Juventus for both Vlahović and Kean.[3]

Kalidou Koulibaly, Kim Min-jae, Alessandro Bastoni and Riccardo Calafiori are the only defenders to win the award, which has been given to 13 midfielders and 30 forwards. It has also been given to foreign players 41 times; the most represented foreign country is Argentina (nine titles), followed by Portugal (five), Serbia, Georgia and France (four each). The most recent winner is Juventus's Khéphren Thuram, who won it for his performances in May 2025.[3]

Key

[edit]

List of winners

[edit]
List of Serie A Player of Month winners
Season Month Player[3] Nationality Pos. Club
2019–20 September 2019 Franck Ribéry  France FW Fiorentina
October 2019 Ciro Immobile  Italy FW Lazio
November 2019 Radja Nainggolan  Belgium MF Cagliari
December 2019 Sergej Milinković-Savić  Serbia MF Lazio
January 2020 Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal FW Juventus
February 2020 Luis Alberto  Spain MF Lazio
June 2020 Alejandro Gómez  Argentina MF Atalanta
July 2020 Paulo Dybala  Argentina FW Juventus
2020–21 September 2020 Alejandro Gómez  Argentina MF Atalanta
October 2020 Zlatan Ibrahimović  Sweden FW AC Milan
November 2020 Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal FW Juventus
December 2020 Hakan Çalhanoğlu  Turkey MF AC Milan
January 2021 Sergej Milinković-Savić  Serbia MF Lazio
February 2021 Romelu Lukaku  Belgium FW Inter Milan
March 2021 Lorenzo Insigne  Italy FW Napoli
April 2021 Luis Muriel  Colombia FW Atalanta
May 2021 Ruslan Malinovskyi  Ukraine MF Atalanta
2021–22 September 2021 Kalidou Koulibaly  Senegal DF Napoli
October 2021 Giovanni Simeone  Argentina FW Hellas Verona
November 2021 Hakan Çalhanoğlu  Turkey MF Inter Milan
December 2021 Dušan Vlahović  Serbia FW Fiorentina
January 2022 Giacomo Raspadori  Italy FW Sassuolo
February 2022 Ruslan Malinovskyi  Ukraine FW Atalanta
March 2022 Victor Osimhen  Nigeria FW Napoli
April 2022 Marcelo Brozović  Croatia MF Inter Milan
May 2022 Sandro Tonali  Italy MF AC Milan
2022–23 August 2022 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia  Georgia FW Napoli
September 2022 Kim Min-jae  South Korea DF Napoli
October 2022 Rafael Leão  Portugal FW AC Milan
November 2022 Moise Kean  Italy FW Juventus
January 2023 Victor Osimhen  Nigeria FW Napoli
February 2023 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia  Georgia FW Napoli
March 2023 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia  Georgia FW Napoli
April 2023 Rafael Leão  Portugal FW AC Milan
May 2023 Boulaye Dia  Senegal FW Salernitana
2023–24 September 2023 Rafael Leão  Portugal FW AC Milan
October 2023 Lautaro Martínez  Argentina FW Inter Milan
November 2023 Paulo Dybala  Argentina FW Roma
December 2023 Christian Pulisic  United States MF AC Milan
January 2024 Dušan Vlahović  Serbia FW Juventus
February 2024 Paulo Dybala  Argentina FW Roma
March 2024 Alessandro Bastoni  Italy DF Inter Milan
April 2024 Paulo Dybala  Argentina FW Roma
May 2024 Riccardo Calafiori  Italy DF Bologna
2024–25 August 2024 Marcus Thuram  France FW Inter Milan
September 2024 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia  Georgia FW Napoli
October 2024 Mateo Retegui  Italy FW Atalanta
November 2024 Moise Kean  Italy FW Fiorentina
December 2024 Paulo Dybala  Argentina FW Roma
January 2025 André-Frank Zambo Anguissa  Cameroon MF Napoli
February 2025 Randal Kolo Muani  France FW Juventus
March 2025 Artem Dovbyk  Ukraine FW Roma
April 2025 Scott McTominay  Scotland MF Napoli
May 2025 Khéphren Thuram  France MF Juventus

Multiple winners

[edit]
As of May 2025

Players in bold are still active in Serie A. Players in italics are still active in professional football outside of Serie A.

Multiple winners
Rank Player Wins
1 Argentina Paulo Dybala 5
2 Georgia (country) Khvicha Kvaratskhelia 4
3 Portugal Rafael Leão 3
4 Turkey Hakan Çalhanoğlu 2
Argentina Alejandro Gómez
Italy Moise Kean
Ukraine Ruslan Malinovskyi
Serbia Sergej Milinković-Savić
Nigeria Victor Osimhen
Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo
Serbia Dušan Vlahović

Awards won by club

[edit]
As of May 2025
Winning clubs
Rank Club Players Wins
1 Napoli 6 11
2 Juventus 6 7
Milan 5 7
4 Atalanta 4 6
Internazionale 6 6
6 Roma 2 5
7 Lazio 3 4
8 Fiorentina 3 3
9 Bologna 1 1
Cagliari 1 1
Hellas Verona 1 1
Salernitana 1 1
Sassuolo 1 1

Awards won by nationality

[edit]
As of May 2025 award
Winning nations
Rank Nationality Players Wins
1 Argentina 4 9
Italy 8 9
3 Portugal 2 5
4 France 4 4
Georgia 1 4
Serbia 2 4
7 Ukraine 2 3
8 Belgium 2 2
Nigeria 1 2
Senegal 2 2
Turkey 1 2
12 Cameroon 1 1
Colombia 1 1
Croatia 1 1
Scotland 1 1
South Korea 1 1
Spain 1 1
Sweden 1 1
United States 1 1

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "EA e Serie A siglano una partnership ufficiale". Calcio e Finanza (in Italian). 10 September 2021. Archived from the original on 24 October 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Rafael Leao EA Sports player of the month di ottobre" (PDF). legaseriea.it (in Italian). Lega Serie A. 11 November 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2025.
  3. ^ a b c "Player of the month". legaseriea.it. Lega Serie A. Retrieved 16 November 2022.