page_title: FWA Footballer of the Year
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: FWA Footballer of the Year / Winners
caption_attribution_description: Arsenal striker Dennis Bergkamp
context_page_description: The Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year is an annual award given to the player who is adjudged to have been the best of the season in English football. The award has been presented since the 1947–48 season, with the inaugural winner being Blackpool winger Stanley Matthews. The latest winner of the award as of 2019–20 is Jordan Henderson of Liverpool. Eight players have won the award on more than one occasion, with Thierry Henry having won the award on the most occasions, with three wins in four seasons.
  The winner is selected by a vote amongst the members of the Football Writers' Association, which comprises around 400 football journalists based throughout England. The award was instigated at the suggestion of Charles Buchan, a former professional footballer turned journalist and one of the Association's founders.
context_section_description: The award has been presented on 73 occasions as of 2020, to 65 players. On one occasion two players shared the award for a season.  The table also indicates where the winning player also won one or more of the other major "player of the year" awards in English football, namely the Professional Footballers' Association's Players' Player of the Year award (PPY), Fans' Player of the Year award (FPY), the Young Player of the Year award (YPY), and the Football Supporters’ Federation Player of the Year award (FSF).
caption: Dennis Bergkamp won the award in the 1997–98 season.
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