PFA Scotland Player & Manager Of The Year Announced

Prestigious awards voted for by the players have been running for 48 years

Daizen Maeda has been named as the Scottish Premiership Player of the year 2025 at the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) Scotland awards at the Hilton in Glasgow. John McGlynn became just the second manager to to win the manager’s award in consecutive seasons, as he was again voted as the best manager after guiding Falkirk to back-to-back promotions.

PFA Scotland (formerly the Scottish Professional Footballers’ Association until 2007) is an independent trade union providing a collective voice for professional footballers in Scotland. The players cast their votes for who they think has been the best player this season, but they can’t vote for their own teammates.

Being recognised by your fellow professionals as the best in the country is one of the most prestigious personal accolades available to a player or manager. The Scottish PFA Player of the Year award has been running for 48 seasons, with 48 Player of the Year titles handed out - despite no award issued during the curtailed 2019–20 campaign due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 48 awards have been presented at just 47 ceremonies as 20 years ago, both Rangers’ Fernando Ricksen and Celtic’s John Hartson were named joint winners. It remains the only time the award has been shared, and it came on the same day Celtic won 2–1 at Ibrox to move five points clear with only four games left. To Ricksen’s delight, famously it wouldn’t stay that way.

Daizen Maeda - Celtic’s talisman of 2025, joins the below list of all 48 winners of the award, broken down by number of wins per club - for each of the 8 clubs to provide a winner. A breakdown of the 13 different nationalities to win the prize then follows:

BREAKDOWN BY CLUB