Leicester City’s Young Player of the Season: The Past Winners

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Leicester City’s Young Player of the Season: The Past Winners

Over the past few years, many players who would go on to have excellent careers at Leicester City and beyond have won the Foxes’ coveted Young Player of the Season award.

2020-08-15T13:12:00.000Z

by Sam Jones

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15 Aug, 2020

Leicester City’s Young Player of the Season: The Past Winners

Over the past few years, many players who would go on to have excellent careers at Leicester City and beyond have won the Foxes’ coveted Young Player of the Season award.

Sam Jones

2020-08-15T13:12:00.000Z

Leicester City’s Young Player of the Season: The Past Winners

Over the past few years, many players who would go on to have excellent careers at Leicester City and beyond have won the Foxes’ coveted Young Player of the Season award.

Sam Jones

2020-08-15T13:12:00.000Z

Leicester City’s Young Player of the Season: The Past Winners

Over the past few years, many players who would go on to have excellent careers at Leicester City and beyond have won the Foxes’ coveted Young Player of the Season award.

Sam Jones

2020-08-15T13:12:00.000Z

Leicester City’s Young Player of the Season: The Past Winners

Over the past few years, many players who would go on to have excellent careers at Leicester City and beyond have won the Foxes’ coveted Young Player of the Season award.

Sam Jones

2020-08-15T13:12:00.000Z

Winger Harvey Barnes was the worthy recipient of the prize in 2019/20, capping off a brilliant season which included six Premier League goals and eight assists. The 22-year-old also won the Goal of the Season award for his stunning strike against Sheffield United.

As is now the tradition at the end of each season, the Club allows the Blue Army to vote for their favourite young Fox - offering a glance into each campaign's up and coming stars.

James Maddison was the award’s winner in 2018/19, rewarded for a superb first season as a City player with seven goals and seven assists to his name. That form continued into the last campaign, as the the 23-year-old midfielder recorded six goals and a further three assists before injury curtailed his season.

Since the award was reintroduced in 2008/09, 10 different players have received it, including back-to-back success for Wilfred Ndidi, who won the prize in 2016/17 and 2017/18.

Meanwhile, midfielder Jeffrey Schlupp, now of Crystal Palace, also won it in consecutive seasons - for his performances in both 2014/15 and then at the end of the Premier League title-winning season of 2015/16.

The first recipient of the Young Player of the Season prize since its reintroduction was City legend Andy King at the end of a successful League 1 campaign in which the Foxes were promoted as champions at the first attempt.

In the following decade, some of Leicester City's greatest young prospects have picked up the top award, including Anthony Knockaert and current Foxes midfielder Matty James.

Following Barnes’ 2019/20 success, below we recount all of them in pictures...

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