PFA Merit Award

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]

Steven Gerrard of Liverpool and Frank Lampard of Chelsea were joint winners in 2015

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

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

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

2000s
YearWinner(s)Notes
2000 Gary Mabbutt MBE
2001 Jimmy Hill OBE
2002 Niall Quinn
2003 Sir Bobby Robson CBE
2004 Dario Gradi MBE
2005 Shaka Hislop CM
2006 George Best
2007 Sir Alex Ferguson CBE
2008 Jimmy Armfield OBE
2009 John McDermott

2010s
YearWinner(s)Notes
2010 Lucas Radebe
2011 Howard Webb
2012 Graham Alexander
2013Manchester United Class of '92
2014 Donald Bell VC
2015 Steven Gerrard MBE[2]
Frank Lampard OBE [2]
2016 Ryan Giggs OBE[3]
2017 David Beckham OBE
2018 Cyrille Regis MBE[4]
2019 Steph Houghton MBE [5] First female to receive award.

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. "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. Archived from the original on 9 May 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  4. "PFA Merit Award winner Cyrille Regis". www.thepfa.com. Archived from the original on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  5. "PFA Merit Award winner Steph Houghton". www.thepfa.com. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
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