PFA Merit Award

Gerrard playing for Liverpool F.C. in 2014
Lampard playing for Chelsea in 2014
Steven Gerrard of Liverpool and Frank Lampard of Chelsea were joint winners in 2015

The Professional Footballers' Association Merit Award (often called the PFA Merit Award, or simply the Merit Award) is an award given by the Professional Footballers' Association (the PFA) for meritorious service to football.[1]

The award was first given in 1974, and was won (jointly) by Bobby Charlton and Cliff Lloyd. The latest winner of the award is Cyrille Regis.

List of winners

1970s

YearWinner(s)Note
1974England Sir Bobby Charlton CBE, OBEFirst winners of the award
England Cliff Lloyd
1975Scotland Denis Law CBEFirst winner of the award from outside England
1976England George Eastham OBE
1977Scotland Jack Taylor OBE
1978Scotland Bill Shankly OBE
1979England Sir Tom Finney OBE

1980s

YearWinner(s)Notes
1980Scotland Sir Matt Busby OBE
1981England John Trollope MBE
1982England Joe Mercer OBE
1983England Bob Paisley OBE
1984England Bill Nicholson OBE
1985England Ron Greenwood CBE
1986England England World Cup squad 1966
1987England Sir Stanley Matthews CBE
1988England Billy Bonds MBE
1989England Nat Lofthouse OBE

1990s

YearWinner(s)Notes
1990England Peter Shilton OBE
1991Scotland Tommy Hutchison
1992England Brian Clough OBE
1993England Manchester United European Cup squad 1968
Portugal EusébioFirst winner of the award from outside Great Britain
First winner of the award from outside the United Kingdom
1994Northern Ireland Billy Bingham MBE
1995Scotland Gordon Strachan OBE
1996Brazil PeléFirst winner of the award from outside Europe
1997England Peter Beardsley MBE
1998England Steve Ogrizovic
1999England Tony Ford MBE

2000s

YearWinner(s)Notes
2000England Gary Mabbutt MBE
2001England Jimmy Hill OBE
2002Republic of Ireland Niall Quinn
2003England Sir Bobby Robson CBE
2004Italy Dario Gradi MBE
2005Trinidad and Tobago Shaka Hislop CM
2006Northern Ireland George Best
2007Scotland Sir Alex Ferguson CBE
2008England Jimmy Armfield OBE
2009England John McDermott

2010s

YearWinner(s)Notes
2010South Africa Lucas Radebe
2011England Howard Webb
2012Scotland Graham Alexander
2013Manchester United Class of '92
2014England Donald Bell VC
2015England Steven Gerrard MBE[2]
England Frank Lampard OBE [2]
2016Wales Ryan Giggs OBE[3]
2017England David Beckham OBE
2018 England Cyrille Regis MBE[4]

Breakdown of winners

Winners by country

CountryNumber of wins
 England28
 Scotland8
 Northern Ireland2
 Trinidad and Tobago1
 Italy
 Republic of Ireland
 Brazil
 Portugal
 South Africa
 Wales

References

  1. ↑ PFA Merit Award 1974-2007 Archived 15 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. 1 2 "Gerrard & Lampard share PFA Merit Award". Goal.com. 26 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Sports, PA. "Ryan Giggs wins PFA Merit award". www.thepfa.com. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  4. ↑ "PFA Merit Award winner Cyrille Regis". www.thepfa.com. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
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