Celtic have named the nominees for their Player of the Year end-of-season awards for the 2024/25 campaign, as supporters get the chance to pick who will be named the winner on Sunday, May 4.
On the club website, Celtic have named seven players in the running for Men’s Player of the Year. These include frontrunner Daizen Maeda, who is Celtic’s top scorer, as well as fellow attacker Nicolas Kuhn, who enjoyed an impressive first half of the season on the right wing.
Midfielder Reo Hatate is joined by captain Callum McGregor, while Cameron Carter-Vickers, Alistair Johnston and Kasper Schmeichel make up the defensive portion of the shortlist.
As for Women’s Player of the Year, defenders Celya Barclais and Emma Lawton have been nominated, while Shannon McGregor and Saoirse Noonan have earned nods for their work in midfield and up front, respectively.
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Maeda joined McGregor and Adam Idah with having multiple Goal of the Season nominations, though the Japan international led the way, with three out of ten coming from him directly. Single goals from Kuhn, Hatate and Cameron Carter-Vickers made up the rest of the list, which included long-range efforts, important European strikes and classy team goals.
Lucy Ashworth-Clifford, Mathilde Carstens, Murphy Agnew and Luana Munoz joined the aforementioned McGregor and Noonan as nominees for the Women’s Goal of the Season.
Yang Hyun-jun’s promising showings out wide in the second half of the season have earned him a nomination for Young Player of the Year, with the South Korea international named alongside summer signing trio Paulo Bernardo, Arne Engels and Idah.
Celtic play their next game this Sunday at the national stadium, as they take on St Johnstone at Hampden. The winner of this tie will face either Hearts or Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup final, where Celtic will hope to complete yet another domestic treble.
Brendan Rodgers’ side only need one more point to guarantee the Scottish Premiership title for the fourth consecutive season, having already secured the League Cup last December.
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