Chris Wood in PFA’s Team of the Year
- Dave Worsley
- Aug 20
- 2 min read
New Zealand All Whites striker Chris Wood has been named in the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) team of the year.
Last season Wood enjoyed his best campaign to date in the English Premier League, scoring 20 league goals for Nottingham Forest and helping the side finish seventh on the points table.
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Wood opened the new season with two goals as Forest scored a 3-1 win over Brentford and will be returning for New Zealand against Australia in Canberra 5 September and Auckland 9 September.
Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah was named the PFA's Player of the Year, the Egyptian becoming the first player to win the award three times.
Salah, 33 who joined Liverpool in 2017, was the Premier League's top scorer last season, with his 29 goals, along with 18 assists, playing a key role in the club winning the league title, finishing 10 points ahead of runners-up Arsenal.
Salah first won the PFA award in 2018 after his first season at Liverpool, and again in 2022,
That shortlist included his Liverpool teammate Alexis Mac Allister, along with Newcastle United's Alexander Isak, Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes, Arsenal's Declan Rice and Chelsea's Cole Palmer.
Aston Villa and England midfielder Morgan Rogers was voted Young Player of the Year, after the 23-year-old scored eight league goals in his 37 starts last season and netted four goals in the Champions League including a hat-trick against Celtic.
Arsenal midfielder Mariona Caldentey was named Women's Player of the Year. The Spaniard scored nine league goals in her first season with the club along with eight goals in the Champions League where Arsenal beat her former club Barcelona to win the trophy.
Liverpool had four players from last season, including Salah, named in the Premier League team of the year, along with new signing from Bournemouth, Milos Kerkez.
Premier League Team of the Year:
Matz Sels (Nottingham Forest); Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool), Milos Kerkez (Bournemouth), William Saliba (Arsenal), Gabriel Magalhaes (Arsenal); Declan Rice (Arsenal), Ryan Gravenberch (Liverpool), Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool); Mohamed Salah (Liverpool), Alexander Isak (Newcastle United), Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest).
