Following the initial round of voting, the five Fulham players making up the final shortlist for Player of the Season are as follows:
- Calvin Bassey
- Bernd Leno
- Rodrigo Muniz
- João Palhinha
- Antonee Robinson
Voting is open from now until 10am on Friday 7th June, and you can choose your favourite at the bottom of this page.
Calvin Bassey
It’s hard to believe that Calvin Bassey had never played in the Premier League prior to this season, such was the ease with which he took to life at Fulham.
After overcoming a testing first couple of games in which the needs of the team required him to operate as a right-sided centre-back, Bassey has been a colossus since moving over onto the left.
Numerous Fulham moves begin with the Nigeria international carrying the ball out of defence, while his pace and strength often get his team out of potentially sticky situations.
Throw in a brilliant opening goal in our first Old Trafford win in 21 years, and it’s a campaign that he can look back on with significant pride.
Bernd Leno
Last season’s runner-up, another highly consistent campaign – in which he was one of only six players to not miss a minute of the Premier League – has Bernd Leno amongst the frontrunners once again this time around.
He began 2023/24 with a Man of the Match display in our 1-0 win at Goodison Park, the first of 10 clean sheets Leno claimed this year – a number bettered only by Jordan Pickford and David Raya.
Leno has also been inducted into the Club’s leadership group this season, and wore the Captain’s armband on five occasions, three of which yielded clean sheets.
His form also saw him earn a deserved recall to the Germany squad, though unfortunately a minor shoulder issue means he will not be going to the European Championships in his homeland this summer.
Rodrigo Muniz
He’s always been a hugely popular individual with fans, staff and teammates alike, but Rodrigo Muniz has taken his game to an entirely different level in 2023/24.
Following the departure of Aleksandar Mitrović, Marco Silva tried different options up top in Raúl Jiménez, Carlos Vinicius and Muniz, who impressed on his first Premier League start at home to Manchester United, only to depart in tears after picking up an injury that would sideline him for six weeks.
But 2024 went near perfectly for the striker. His sweet lob at Burnley was the first of eight goals struck in as many games, form which saw him become only the third Fulham player in our history to be named Premier League Player of the Month.
Muniz ended up as the Club’s top scorer, reaching double figures across all competitions.
João Palhinha
The reigning Fulham Player of the Season, it’s been another year of tackles and goals from João Palhinha.
As was the case in his maiden campaign in the Premier League, Palhinha topped the divisional charts for tackles made, with 152. That’s 24 more than his closest competitor (international teammate João Gomes), and even surpasses the figure he managed in 2022/23 (148).
Palhinha also popped up with a number of crucial goals, with every one of his four efforts helping the Whites to secure a draw away from home, perhaps the most notable coming in the closing stages at the Emirates, as 10-man Fulham fought back against Arsenal.
Antonee Robinson
With vital contributions at both ends of the pitch, 2023/24 was arguably Antonee Robinson’s finest season in a Fulham shirt.
One of the first names on the teamsheet, Robinson started 37 of our 38 Premier League fixtures, and would surely have registered an ever present campaign had a muscular injury picked up on international duty not ruled him out of our 1-0 win over Luton Town in September.
No player in the division made more interceptions than Robinson’s 80, while his six assists was bettered by just three defenders – Pedro Porro, Vladimir Coufal and Kieran Trippier.
Having established an excellent linkup with Willian down the left, combined with his incredible engine, Robinson has been a real crowd pleaser this season.
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