Liverpool's Florian Wirtz has been named Germany's Player of the Year for the 2024-25 season, following an impressive campaign with Bayer Leverkusen.

The Player of the Year award has been voted on since 1960, with a separate managers’ award introduced in 2002.



Franz Beckenbauer holds the record for most player wins with four, while Jürgen Klopp and Felix Magath have each won the manager award three times.

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Wirtz has been praised as one of the world’s top players, with former Leverkusen coach and ex-Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso calling him "world class."

After joining Liverpool, Wirtz told the club’s website that he "would like to win everything every year."

“In the end, we want to be successful,” he said.

Florian Wirtz has won his second major award this week

The team's only defeat that season came in the Europa League final against Italian side Atalanta, denying Leverkusen a historic treble, and saw Wirtz crowned Bundesliga Player of the Year.

With 57 goals and 65 assists in 197 appearances for the German side, Wirtz has proven himself both a creative force and a clinical goalscorer.

Wirtz was also voted the league’s Player of the Season by Kicker readers (Harry Kane won the official award) and earned a spot in his third Bundesliga Team of the Season during his remarkable, yet brief, career

Liverpool boss Arne Slot was named to the Ballon d'Or's Manager of the Year shortlist after leading the Reds to a Premier League campaign in his maiden English campaign