Erling Haaland collected the Premier League Golden Boot at the end of the season after scoring 27 goals in 35 games, finishing five clear of Brentford's Igor Thiago. It was the Manchester City striker's third Golden Boot in four Premier League seasons since arriving at the club in 2021-22, and it lifted his tally to 38 goals across all competitions for the campaign.
The award leaves Haaland within striking distance of the competition's most decorated scorers. Only Thierry Henry and Mohamed Salah have lifted the Golden Boot more often, with four apiece, while Haaland's latest finish underlined how quickly he has become a fixture at the top of the scoring charts. For City, the number that mattered most was the same one that kept deciding matches all year: 27 in the league and 38 in total.
Arsenal's David Raya won the Golden Glove for the third season in a row after keeping 18 clean sheets, four more than Manchester City's Gianluigi Donnarumma. Bruno Fernandes of Manchester United took the playmaker award after setting up 21 goals for his teammates, moving past the previous best of 20 assists shared by Henry and Kevin de Bruyne. The awards were handed out after the Premier League season had already ended, turning the final numbers into the lasting marker of a campaign that belonged to the players who finished strongest.
The split in the honours also captures the shape of the season better than any table could. Haaland was the obvious headline act, but Raya's repeat win showed how rare consistency is for goalkeepers, and Fernandes's record assist haul pushed him beyond two of the Premier League's standard-bearers for creativity. For readers following the wider debate around attacking balance in English football, the discussion over Newcastle's striker plans after Osula's surge is laid out in a separate report, as managers and supporters keep weighing whether one prolific finisher can alter the direction of a season.
What comes next is simple enough: Haaland will start the new campaign trying to turn three Golden Boots in four seasons into something even harder to dismiss, while Raya and Fernandes will spend the months ahead defending awards that were earned one save and one pass at a time.
