EFL Young Player of the Month

The EFL Young Player of the Month is an award for young players in all three divisions of the English Football League. To be eligible players must be under-21 or turn 21 during the current season. It was first awarded in December 2009.^[1] Victor Moses of Crystal Palace was the first winner.

List of winners

Month	Year[nb 1]	Nationality	Player	Team	Division	Age[nb 2]	Ref
December	2009.102009	Nigeria	Victor Moses	Crystal Palace	Championship	19 years, 20 days	[2]
January	2009.102010	England	Chris Martin	Norwich City	League One	21 years, 89 days	[3]
February	2009.102010	England	Alex Smithies	Huddersfield Town	League One	19 years, 361 days	[4]
March	2009.102010	England	Charlie Austin	Swindon Town	League One	20 years, 270 days	[5]
April	2009.102010	England	Connor Wickham	Ipswich Town	Championship	17 years, 31 days	[6]
August	2010.112010	England	Sam Baldock	Milton Keynes Dons	League One	21 years, 170 days	[7]
September	2010.112010	England	Marvin Sordell	Watford	Championship	21 years, 226 days	[8]
October	2010.112010	England	Kazenga LuaLua	Brighton & Hove Albion	League One	19 years, 326 days	[9]
November	2010.112010	England	Steven Caulker	Bristol City	Championship	18 years, 337 days	[10]
December	2010.112010	England	Will Buckley	Watford	Championship	21 years, 33 days	[11]
January	2010.112011	England	Jay Rodriguez	Burnley	Championship	21 years, 188 days	[12]
February	2010.112011	England	Jon Taylor	Shrewsbury Town	League Two	18 years, 224 days	[13]
March	2010.112011	England	Alex McCarthy	Reading	Championship	21 years, 119 days	[14]
April	2010.112011	England	Danny Ings	AFC Bournemouth	League One	19 years, 16 days	[15]
August	2011.122011	England	Harry Maguire	Sheffield United	League One	18 years, 180 days	[16]
September	2011.122011	England	Gary Madine	Sheffield Wednesday	League One	21 years, 38 days	[17]
October	2011.122011	Northern Ireland	Billy Kee	Burton Albion	League Two	20 years, 335 days	[18]
November	2011.122011	England	Jonjo Shelvey	Blackpool	Championship	19 years, 277 days	[19]
December	2011.122011	England	Nick Powell	Crewe Alexandra	League Two	17 years, 283 days	[20]
January	2011.122012	Scotland	Matt Phillips	Blackpool	Championship	20 years, 325 days	[21]
February	2011.122012	Wales	Kieron Freeman	Notts County	League One	19 years, 356 days	[22]
March	2011.122012	Ireland	Sean Murray	Watford	Championship	18 years, 173 days	[23]
April	2011.122012	England	Luke Freeman	Stevenage	League One	20 years, 40 days	[24]
August	2012.132012	England	Max Clayton	Crewe Alexandra	League One	18 years, 23 days	[25]
September	2012.132012	England	George Bowerman	Walsall	League One	20 years, 330 days	[26]
October	2012.132012	England	Wilfried Zaha	Crystal Palace	Championship	19 years, 357 days	[27]
November	2012.132012	England	Will Hughes	Derby County	Championship	17 years, 238 days	[28]
December	2012.132012	England	Tendayi Darikwa	Chesterfield	League Two	21 years, 19 days	[29]
January	2012.132013	Ireland	Carl McHugh	Bradford City	League Two	19 years, 362 days	[30]
February	2012.132013	England	George Long	Sheffield United	League One	19 years, 116 days	[31]
March	2012.132013	England	Sam Byram	Leeds United	Championship	19 years, 197 days	[32]
April	2012.132013	England	Nathaniel Chalobah	Watford	Championship	18 years, 138 days	[33]
August	2013.142013	England	Britt Assombalonga	Peterborough United	League One	20 years, 269 days	[34]
September	2013.142013	England	Liam Moore	Leicester City	Championship	20 years, 243 days	[35]
October	2013.142013	England	Jordan Cousins	Charlton Athletic	Championship	19 years, 240 days	[36]
November	2013.142013	England	Ollie Banks	Chesterfield	League Two	21 years, 71 days	[37]
December	2013.142013	England	Patrick Bamford	Milton Keynes Dons	League One	20 years, 118 days	[38]
January	2013.142014	England	Jake Bidwell	Brentford	League One	20 years, 326 days	[39]
February	2013.142014	United States	Will Packwood	Birmingham City	Championship	20 years, 284 days	[40]
March	2013.142014	England	Dale Jennings	Barnsley	Championship	21 years, 101 days	[41]
April	2013.142014	England	Moses Odubajo	Leyton Orient	League One	20 years, 277 days	[42]
August	2014.152014	England	Dele Alli	Milton Keynes Dons	League One	18 years, 143 days	[43]
September	2014.152014	England	Matt Ingram	Wycombe Wanderers	League Two	20 years, 287 days	[44]
October	2014.152014	England	Marcus Maddison	Peterborough United	League One	21 years, 36 days	[45]
November	2014.152014	England	Alex Mowatt	Leeds United	Championship	19 years, 291 days	[46]
December	2014.152014	England	Demarai Gray	Birmingham City	Championship	18 years, 187 days	[47]
January	2014.152015	England	Dominic Iorfa	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Championship	19 years, 208 days	[48]
February	2014.152015	England	Joe Bryan	Bristol City	League One	21 years, 165 days	[49]
March	2014.152015	England	Scott Harrison	Hartlepool United	League Two	21 years, 210 days	[50]
April	2014.152015	England	Dan Bentley	Southend United	League Two	21 years, 292 days	[51]
August	2015.162015	Scotland	Ryan Fraser	Ipswich Town	Championship	21 years, 189 days	[52]
September	2015.162015	England	Rico Henry	Walsall	League One	18 years, 85 days	[53]
October	2015.162015	France	Moussa Dembélé	Fulham	Championship	19 years, 112 days	[54]
November	2015.162015	England	Jermaine Anderson	Peterborough United	League One	19 years, 199 days	[55]
December	2015.162015	Wales	Tom Lockyer	Bristol Rovers	League Two	21 years, 29 days	[56]
January	2015.162016	England	Ben Osborn	Nottingham Forest	Championship	21 years, 180 days	[57]
February	2015.162016	Northern Ireland	Cameron McGeehan	Luton Town	League Two	20 years, 330 days	[58]
March	2015.162016	England	Ollie Watkins	Exeter City	League Two	20 years, 93 days	[59]
April	2015.162016	England	Ben Thompson	Millwall	League One	20 years, 211 days	[60]
August	2016.172016	England	Nathan Smith	Port Vale	League One	20 years, 151 days	[61]
September	2016.172016	England	Tammy Abraham	Bristol City	Championship	18 years, 365 days	[62]
October	2016.172016	England	Kalvin Phillips	Leeds United	Championship	20 years, 335 days	[63]
November	2016.172016	England	Liam Mandeville	Doncaster Rovers	League Two	19 years, 288 days	[64]
December	2016.172016	England	Frankie Kent	Colchester United	League Two	21 years, 41 days	[65]
January	2016.172017	England	John Swift	Reading	Championship	21 years, 223 days	[66]
February	2016.172017	England	Ryan Ledson	Oxford United	League One	19 years, 194 days	[67]
March	2016.172017	Nigeria	Bright Osayi-Samuel	Blackpool	League Two	19 years, 91 days	[68]
April	2016.172017	England	Josh Cullen	Bradford City	League One	21 years, 24 days	[69]
August	2017.182017	England	Jarrod Bowen	Hull City	Championship	20 years, 255 days	[70]
September	2017.182017	England	Callum Brittain	Milton Keynes Dons	League One	19 years, 203 days	[71]
October	2017.182017	Ivory Coast	Siriki Dembélé	Grimsby Town	League Two	21 years, 55 days	[72]
November	2017.182017	England	Hakeeb Adelakun	Scunthorpe United	League One	21 years, 173 days	[73]
December	2017.182017	England	Callum Lang	Morecambe	League Two	19 years, 115 days	[74]
January	2017.182018	England	James Maddison	Norwich City	Championship	21 years, 70 days	[75]
February	Not awarded
March
April
August	2018.192018	England	Josh Maja	Sunderland	League One	19 years, 248 days	[76]
September	2018.192018	Northern Ireland	Jamal Lewis	Norwich City	Championship	20 years, 249 days	[77]
October	2018.192018	England	Harvey Gilmour	Tranmere Rovers	League Two	19 years, 321 days	[78]
November	2018.192018	England	James Justin	Luton Town	League One	20 years, 281 days	[79]
December	2018.192018	England	George Miller	Bradford City	League One	20 years, 143 days	[80]
January	2018.192019	Scotland	Jacob Brown	Barnsley	League One	20 years, 297 days	[81]
February	2018.192019	England	Tyrese Campbell	Shrewsbury Town	League One	19 years, 63 days	[82]
March	Not awarded
April
August	2019.202019	England	Conor Gallagher	Charlton Athletic	Championship	19 years, 207 days	[83]
September	2019.202019	England	Jacob Greaves	Cheltenham Town	League Two	19 years, 19 days	[84]
October	2019.202019	Finland	Marcus Forss	AFC Wimbledon	League One	20 years, 136 days	[85]
November	2019.202019	England	Jude Bellingham	Birmingham City	Championship	16 years, 155 days	[86]
December	2019.202019	England	Djed Spence	Middlesbrough	Championship	19 years, 145 days	[87]
January	2019.202020	Wales	Luke Jephcott	Plymouth Argyle	League Two	20 years, 6 days	[88]
February	2019.202020	Australia	Harry Souttar	Fleetwood Town	League One	21 years, 131 days	[89]
September	2020.212020	England	Keane Lewis-Potter	Hull City	League One	19 years, 222 days	[90]
October	2020.212020	Wales	Brandon Cooper	Newport County	League Two	20 years, 292 days	[91]
November	2020.212020	England	Max Aarons	Norwich City	Championship	20 years, 332 days	[92]
December	2020.212020	France	Michael Olise	Reading	Championship	19 years, 20 days	[93]
January	2020.212021	Ghana	Kwadwo Baah	Rochdale	League One	18 years, 5 days	[94]
February	2020.212021	England	Callum Styles	Barnsley	Championship	20 years, 338 days	[95]
March	2020.212021	England	Morgan Rogers	Lincoln City	League One	18 years, 249 days	[96]
April	2020.212021	England	Ayoub Assal	AFC Wimbledon	League One	19 years, 100 days	[97]
August	2021.222021	England	Fábio Carvalho	Fulham	Championship	19 years, 2 days	[98]
September	2021.222021	Wales	Brennan Johnson	Nottingham Forest	Championship	20 years, 131 days	[99]
October	2021.222021	England	Connor Taylor	Bristol Rovers	League Two	20 years, 7 days	[100]
November	2021.222021	England	Matt O'Riley	Milton Keynes Dons	League One	21 years, 10 days	[101]
December	2021.222021	England	Dan Neil	Sunderland	League One	20 years, 19 days	[102]
January	2021.222022	England	Finn Azaz	Newport County	League Two	21 years, 147 days	[103]
February	2021.222022	England	Joe Tomlinson	Swindon Town	League Two	21 years, 265 days	[104]
March	2021.222022	England	Djed Spence	Nottingham Forest	Championship	21 years, 235 days	[105]
April	2021.222022	England	Elliot Anderson	Bristol Rovers	League Two	19 years, 176 days	[106]
August	2022.232022	Scotland	Tommy Conway	Bristol City	Championship	20 years, 26 days	[107]
September	2022.232022	England	Bali Mumba	Plymouth Argyle	League One	20 years, 358 days	[108]
October	2022.232022	England	Jay Stansfield	Exeter City	League One	19 years, 342 days	[109]
November	2022.232022	England	Ayoub Assal	AFC Wimbledon	League Two	20 years, 10 days	[110]
December	2022.232022	Ivory Coast	Amad	Sunderland	Championship	20 years, 174 days	[111]
January	2022.232023	England	Junior Tchamadeu	Colchester United	League Two	19 years, 41 days	[112]
February	2022.232023	England	Alex Scott	Bristol City	Championship	19 years, 135 days	[113]
March	2022.232023	Iraq	Ali Al-Hamadi	AFC Wimbledon	League Two	20 years, 309 days	[114]
August	2023.242023	England	Jonathan Rowe	Norwich City	Championship	20 years, 124 days	[115]
September	2023.242023	England	Louie Barry	Stockport County	League Two	20 years, 102 days	[116]
October	2023.242023	England	Max Dean	Milton Keynes Dons	League Two	19 years, 253 days	[117]
November	2023.242023	England	Tyler Morton	Hull City	Championship	21 years, 31 days	[118]
December	2023.242023	England	Bailey Cadamarteri	Sheffield Wednesday	Championship	18 years, 237 days	[119]
January	2023.242024	England	Ronnie Edwards	Peterborough United	League One	20 years, 310 days	[120]
February	2023.242024	Republic of Ireland	Emmanuel Adegboyega	Walsall	League Two	20 years, 167 days	[121]
March	2023.242024	Wales	Joe Taylor	Lincoln City	League One	21 years, 135 days	[122]
April	2023.242024	Portugal	Fábio Carvalho	Hull City	Championship	21 years, 245 days	[123]
August	2024.252024	England	Louie Barry	Stockport County	League One	21 years, 72 days	[124]
September	2024.252024	England	Chris Rigg	Sunderland	Championship	17 years, 105 days	[125]
October	2024.252024	England	Nathan Lowe	Walsall	League Two	19 years, 44 days	[126]
November	2024.252024	Scotland	Ben Doak	Middlesbrough	Championship	19 years, 20 days	[127]
December	2024.252024	England	Miles Leaburn	Charlton Athletic	League One	21 years, 34 days	[128]
January	2024.252025	England	Jamie Donley	Leyton Orient	League One	20 years, 29 days	[129]
February	2024.252025	England	CJ Egan-Riley	Burnley	Championship	22 years, 58 days	[130]
March	2024.252025	England	Jovon Makama	Lincoln City	League One	21 years, 59 days	[131]

Awards won by division

Up to and including the March 2025 award.

Division	Wins
Championship	50
League One	49
League Two	33

Awards won by nationality

Up to and including the March 2025 award.

Country	Wins
England	105
Wales	5
Scotland	4
Northern Ireland	3
Republic of Ireland	3
France	2
Nigeria	2
Ivory Coast	2
Australia	1
Finland	1
Ghana	1
Iraq	1
Portugal	1
United States	1

Awards won by club

Up to and including the March 2025 award.

Club	Wins
Milton Keynes Dons	6
Bristol City	5
Norwich City	5
AFC Wimbledon	4
Hull City	4
Peterborough United	4
Walsall	4
Watford	4
Barnsley	3
Birmingham City	3
Blackpool	3
Bradford City	3
Bristol Rovers	3
Charlton Athletic	3
Leeds United	3
Lincoln City	3
Nottingham Forest	3
Reading	3
Sunderland	3
Swindon Town	3
Burnley	2
Chesterfield	2
Colchester United	2
Crewe Alexandra	2
Crystal Palace	2
Exeter City	2
Fulham	2
Ipswich Town	2
Leyton Orient	2
Luton Town	2
Middlesbrough	2
Newport County	2
Plymouth Argyle	2
Sheffield United	2
Sheffield Wednesday	2
Shrewsbury Town	2
Stockport County	2
AFC Bournemouth	1
Brentford	1
Brighton & Hove Albion	1
Burton Albion	1
Cheltenham Town	1
Derby County	1
Doncaster Rovers	1
Fleetwood Town	1
Grimsby Town	1
Hartlepool United	1
Huddersfield Town	1
Leicester City	1
Millwall	1
Morecambe	1
Notts County	1
Oxford United	1
Port Vale	1
Rochdale	1
Scunthorpe United	1
Southend United	1
Stevenage	1
Sunderland	1
Tranmere Rovers	1
Wolverhampton Wanderers	1
Wycombe Wanderers	1

Notes

1. Each year in the table is linked to the corresponding football season.
2. Age at the end of the month awarded