How to Vote for Premier League Awards: POTM, Player of the Season and Fan Team

Check that an official Premier League vote is open

A search result can keep an urgent title long after its ballot closes. Treat “vote now” as a description of what the page did when published, not proof that it is accepting votes today. Open the result and look for the named performance period and a complete closing date with its time zone. For example, the official 2025/26 Player of the Season shortlist set a 12:00 BST deadline on 18 May 2026. That timestamp, not the search snippet, defined the window.

• Publisher: start on PremierLeague.com or use the external partner link that an official Premier League announcement provides.
• Award: confirm whether the page says Player of the Month, Player of the Season, Young Player, Fan Team, Manager, Goal or Save.
• Period: match the month or season in the heading to the performances you intend to judge.
• Deadline: read the full day, date, year and GMT or BST label; convert it to your location only after identifying the stated UK time.
• Form state: make sure the ballot still lets you select and submit, rather than showing a thank-you message, winner link or archived layout.

The month in an award name is the performance period, not necessarily the month in which voting occurs. The December 2025 EA SPORTS Player of the Month shortlist was published on 8 January 2026 and closed at 12:00 GMT on 12 January. A supporter searching only for “January POTM vote” could therefore land on the wrong contest. Read the page heading before comparing nominees, and do not assume that a January publication is automatically the January performance award.

If you cannot find a current page that passes those checks, the safe conclusion is that you have not verified an open ballot. Do not submit details to a copycat poll or reuse an archived form. Check the official Premier League awards and news areas again when shortlists are announced, then use the official result article to confirm the winner. Our blog index can help you follow league context, but Premier League Schedule does not replace the league's voting form or certify a third-party poll.

How Premier League monthly award voting works

Premier League monthly voting is a group of separate shortlist decisions, not one catch-all poll. The senior fan-vote categories described by the league include Player, Manager, Goal, Save and Creative Moment of the Month. An announcement may collect several shortlists under one deadline, as the April 2025 hub did for Player, Manager, Goal and Save, but supporters still make an award-specific selection. Compare the evidence attached to that shortlist, including the month's completed matches and Premier League results, rather than voting from a season-long reputation alone.

The shared rule is that the public has a role without being the only judge. The Premier League's official method explainer assigns public votes 10 per cent of the total and combines them with expert-panel voting. For the player award, club captains also contribute. That exception matters: a raw social-media poll or the apparent popularity of one nominee cannot predict the official winner. The league does not publish a further percentage split for the panel and captains on that explainer, so a responsible guide should not manufacture one.

Player of the Month: public, panel and captain input

For EA SPORTS Player of the Month, open the current official shortlist and choose one of the named nominees through the ballot route supplied there. The route has historically led to an EA SPORTS voting site. The March 2026 shortlist offered seven nominees and closed at 12:00 BST on 30 March; the December 2025 award was voted on in January 2026 and used a 12:00 GMT deadline. Those are examples of the page-specific pattern, not a promise about the next number of nominees, weekday or closing time.

Your selection matters, but it is one part of a combined result. The league's method page says public votes represent 10 per cent of the total. An expert panel also votes, and club captains contribute to the player category. The page does not give a separate percentage for the captains or divide the remaining 90 per cent between captain and panel input. Therefore, claims that one of those groups has a precise unpublished share should be treated as speculation.

A dated nomination story may shorten the explanation to “your vote will be combined with a panel of experts.” That wording is compatible with the supporter-facing action, but it is less complete than the dedicated official rules, which add the captain component. Use the shortlist to identify the candidates and deadline; use the general awards explainer to understand the decision. When judging the month, review only the relevant Premier League games in the results archive. A player leading a fan discussion still has not automatically won the official award.

Manager, Goal, Save and Creative Moment votes

For Manager, Goal, Save and Creative Moment of the Month, the same official explainer gives the public a 10 per cent role and combines it with the expert panel. It identifies captain voting specifically as an addition for the player award, not for these categories. That means you should not copy the Player of the Month formula wholesale and claim that captains rank managers, goals or saves. The fan vote is influential but remains one input.

One monthly hub may display several shortlists with a shared deadline, but each choice still answers a different question. For a goal or save, watch the nominated moments; for a manager, consider the team's league results during that month. The September 2024 hub said its winners would be revealed the following week, but that was page-specific timing, not an eternal rule. Submit every category you care about separately and check the confirmation state for each one.

How to vote for Premier League Player of the Season

The practical flow resembles a monthly ballot but occurs near the end of the campaign. Open the current official Player of the Season shortlist, review the named candidates, select one and submit before the exact deadline on that page. In 2025/26, eight players were shortlisted on 14 May and the fan window closed at 12:00 BST on 18 May. The winner was then covered in a separate official result story. Those dates and the eight-player field describe that campaign only.

Judge the performances through the cutoff represented by the shortlist, not from an outdated midseason impression or a different competition. The Premier League table can give team context, while the official nominee profiles supply league statistics and reasons for selection. Your fan choice enters a combined decision; it is not a standalone winner-takes-all internet poll. The next two sections explain the known voter groups and why the Young Player ballot needs a separate eligibility check.

What is known about the season-award vote split

For EA SPORTS Player of the Season, the official award-history page names three inputs: the public, the 20 Premier League club captains and a panel of football experts. All are combined to decide the winner. A shortlist or result story may summarize this as supporters voting alongside experts and omit the captain detail, but that shorter wording does not establish a different award. The dedicated award page provides the fuller description.

What the checked official pages do not provide is an exact numerical share for each of those three season-award groups or a public table of raw vote totals. The 10 per cent figure appears explicitly in the league's discussion of monthly public voting. Its season section says panel and public votes are combined, while the Player of the Season page adds captains, but neither publishes a season-specific percentage breakdown. Unless a current ballot or its terms supplies one, do not state that the fan share is exactly 10 per cent for Player of the Season or invent a captain-versus-panel split.

Supporters have an official voice, but visible fan enthusiasm is not a live scoreboard. With captain and expert input also involved—and no complete weighting or raw tally published on the checked pages—you cannot calculate the official winner from a social poll.

Player of the Season versus Young Player of the Season

Young Player of the Season is a separate award with its own shortlist and submission. In 2025/26, the senior and young lists were both published on 14 May and both closed at 12:00 BST on 18 May, but that shared window did not turn them into one ballot. A supporter who wanted to take part in both decisions had to evaluate the candidates presented for each award. Future editions may use different dates, so follow the current pages rather than copying the 2025/26 calendar.

Eligibility is based on age at the start of the campaign: the Premier League describes the Young Player award as recognizing the best performer who was 21 or younger when the season began. It is not determined by a player's age on the day you vote. The 2025/26 Young Player page said public choices would be combined with an expert panel; it did not state the 20-captain component identified for the senior Player of the Season. Compare nominees using the same season context visible in the league table, but do not merge the mechanisms.

How the Fan Team of the Season vote works

The Premier League Fan Team of the Season is a lineup-building fan ballot, not another name for EA SPORTS Player of the Season. Instead of selecting one overall winner whose vote is combined with captains and experts, supporters fill positions to create an XI. The official 2025/26 edition used a 4-3-3 formation. That format makes positional balance part of the task: choosing a goalkeeper does not compete directly with choosing a striker.

1. Open a positionIn the 2025/26 interface, supporters clicked each place in the 4-3-3.
2. Browse that shortlistSelect the player you believe best defined that position during the campaign.
3. Complete the XIFill every required place and review the overall lineup before sending it.
4. Submit the teamUse the ballot's submit control before its stated closing time.

For 2025/26, the league later reported a 60-player shortlist and more than 200,000 shared selections. The players receiving the most public votes in their respective positions formed the final XI. That is a direct positional fan outcome, unlike the combined-voter Player of the Season award. The result graphic below makes the difference tangible: it presents a goalkeeper, defenders, midfielders and forwards as a team, not one trophy recipient.

Do not assume the next Fan Team ballot will retain the same 4-3-3, 60-player pool or result date. Read the new interface's instructions before making selections, especially if a player can appear in more than one role. Use the final or current table to understand team-level performance, but remember that standings do not determine the Fan Team. Only the league's official result page confirms which positional choices won that edition.

Follow these steps to cast and verify your vote

The safest voting routine is the same even though forms, partners and deadlines change. Begin with the live official announcement, let that page define the award and period, and finish with the official result. Do not memorize an old EA SPORTS address or a date from last season and assume it still applies. In the historical examples, both monthly and season pages supplied nominee evidence and a precise closing time, but they led through separate award-specific journeys.

1. Find the announcementOpen the current shortlist on PremierLeague.com rather than starting from an unofficial poll.
2. Confirm the scopeRead the full award name, month or season and the eligible nominee list.
3. Review the evidenceUse the official profiles and completed league results for that performance period.
4. Record the deadlineNote the stated date, year and GMT or BST time before converting it to your location.
5. Use the supplied routeFollow the ballot or partner link from the official announcement, make the permitted selection and submit.
6. Verify the outcome laterReturn to PremierLeague.com for the separate official winner or Fan Team result.

The last step matters because a vote page is not an official results ledger. In 2025/26, the Player of the Season shortlist and the Bruno Fernandes winner story were separate pages. The result story—and the real award presentation shown below—confirms the outcome after the deciding inputs are combined. Predictions, screenshots of an unsubmitted lineup and social-media vote shares cannot replace that confirmation.

Treat the current interface as the authority for practical details. The 2025/26 Young Player notice used a login or sign-up step for its prize-draw entry, while Player of the Month notices have routed supporters to an EA SPORTS partner site. Do not promise that every category uses one account flow or that clicking a candidate without completing the shown submit action is enough. If the page does not display a clear completion state, avoid claiming that your vote counted and use only the options offered on that official ballot.

When Premier League award voting opens and results are announced

There is no fixed universal POTM announcement day published on the official pages checked for this guide. A monthly shortlist tells you its own closing time, and the related hub or later story tells you when that edition's result appears. Historical pages often show a short turnaround, but a pattern is not a guaranteed rule. Treat “next week” or a named Friday on one archived page as information for that ballot only.

Two details prevent avoidable missed votes. First, read the UK time-zone label: the December example used GMT, while the March example used BST. Convert the stated time for the ballot date, not today's offset. Second, keep the performance month separate from the voting date. “December 2025 Player of the Month” was voted on in January 2026 because December's league matches had to be completed before the shortlist could represent the full period.

End-of-season awards use broader official guidance rather than one permanent calendar. The league says Player of the Season and Young Player of the Season are announced from shortlists on or soon after the final weekend. Manager of the Season follows soon after the campaign ends. Goal, Save and Creative Moment of the Season are selected from monthly winners plus outstanding May entries and are announced about a week after the end. Watch the official announcement and our latest guide index; never substitute those approximate phrases with a made-up date.

Avoid confusing POTM and unofficial fan polls

“POTM” is not precise enough by itself. Supporters often use it for Player of the Month, while the Premier League has also used a URL titled “POTM explained” for Player of the Match. That match page, explicitly scoped through 2024/25, described a fixture-page vote opening after the final whistle and closing 15 minutes later. It was a direct most-votes decision for one match. None of that timing or method describes the senior monthly award, and it should not be presented as confirmed 2026/27 functionality.

The same identity check applies to searches for PFA, BBC, club, EA FC, FC Mobile or another league's awards. Read the publisher and the full award name before assuming it feeds the Premier League's official result. A BBC Sport page can legitimately ask readers to choose their season awards, but its page says BBC journalists selected the nominees; that makes it a BBC poll. Likewise, PL2 uses the Football Development Panel rather than the senior monthly public-panel-captain combination.

Some prominent Premier League prizes do not need a fan ballot at all. The Golden Boot recognizes the player or players with the most goals, the Golden Glove the goalkeeper or goalkeepers with the most clean sheets and the Playmaker the player or players with the most assists. They are statistical awards, so a “vote” claiming to decide the official Golden Boot is solving a different task. Verify the underlying league totals through official statistics and the completed results, then wait for the league's award confirmation.

Frequently asked questions

These answers cover official senior Premier League Player of the Month, Player of the Season and Fan Team ballots. They do not describe a BBC or PFA poll, an EA FC promotion, a club's own award or the panel-decided Premier League 2 prize. Keeping the organizer and full award title visible is the quickest way to apply the right answer.

For any live action, return to the current official announcement and read its deadline. An archived example can explain the mechanism but cannot accept a fresh vote, and a fan prediction cannot confirm the winner. The official result page closes that loop. The Premier League Schedule blog can add context around the campaign, while the league's ballot and result remain authoritative for the award.

Can fans vote for Premier League Player of the Month?

Yes. Fans can take part when an official EA SPORTS Player of the Month shortlist is open. Start on the current PremierLeague.com announcement, follow its authorized ballot route, select from the listed nominees and submit before the stated UK-time deadline. A historical page proves that public participation exists but does not stay open indefinitely: the March 2026 example closed at 12:00 BST on 30 March 2026.

Does the public vote decide Premier League POTM?

No. For the senior EA SPORTS Player of the Month award, public votes account for 10 per cent of the total. The result also includes an expert panel and votes from Premier League club captains. Fan support can therefore influence a close decision, but the leading choice in an unofficial poll is not automatically the winner. The official explainer does not publish separate percentages for the panel and captains, so do not assign them invented weights.

When is Premier League POTM announced?

There is no fixed announcement weekday confirmed across the official monthly pages checked. Read the current shortlist or monthly hub for that ballot's deadline and any result guidance, then verify the winner in the later official story. A September 2024 hub said its winners would be revealed “next week,” but that relative wording was not a permanent schedule. Check the latest articles for context without treating an old date as current.

Is Fan Team of the Season the same as Player of the Season?

No. Fan Team of the Season produces a positional XI from a separate public lineup ballot; in 2025/26, the highest vote-getters in their positions made the team. EA SPORTS Player of the Season names one standout player after combined input from the public, 20 club captains and an expert panel. Submitting a Fan Team therefore does not cast a Player of the Season vote. Complete each current official ballot separately if both are open.