EFL Championship Young Player of the Year: List of all winners

The Championship has been the breeding ground for some serious talent.

The English Football League Championship, additionally referred to as the EFL Championship in England and Sky Bet Championship for the sake of sponsorship, is the top division of the English Football League (EFL) and the second-highest league overall in the English football league system behind the Premier League. It is currently played by 24 clubs.

The two Championship clubs who finish in first and second place each year get automatic promotions to the Premier League. The clubs that finish third through sixth at the end of the regular season compete in a playoff round, with the victor earning promotion to the Premier League. The three EFL Championship teams with the worst records are demoted to League One.

The EFL Championship is the ninth-richest level in Europe, the tenth-best division in terms of participation (with the greatest per-match attendance of any secondary league), and the most prosperous non-top-flight football league in the world. It had a 20,181 average match audience for the 2018–19 campaign.

The third-placed team competes against the sixth-placed team in the playoffs, while the fourth-placed team competes against the fifth-placed club in two-legged (home and away) semifinal matches. The Premier League promotion and the Championship play-off are up for grabs when the champions of each semi-final face off in a single game at Wembley Stadium.

Here is the list of all the EFL Championship Young Player of the Year award winners:

Championship Young Player of the Year award in recent years:

• 2006: Phil Jagielka (Sheffield United)
• 2007: Jason Koumas (West Bromwich Albion
• 2008: Kevin Phillips (West Bromwich Albion)
• 2009: Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
• 2010: Kevin Nolan (Newcastle United)
• 2011: Adel Taarabt (Queens Park Rangers)
• 2012: Rickie Lambert (Southampton)
• 2013: Matěj Vydra (Watford)
• 2014: Danny Ings (Burnley)
• 2015: Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough)
• 2016: Andre Gray (Burnley)
• 2017: Anthony Knockaert (Brighton & Hove Albion)

• 2018: Ryan Sessegnon (Fulham)
• 2019: Max Aarons (Norwich)
• 2020: Jude Bellingham (Birmingham)
• 2021: Michael Olise (Reading)
• 2022: Brennan Johnson (Nottingham Forest)
• 2023: Alex Scott (Bristol City)

**This article was last updated on 24 April 2023.