Leeds United forward Dominic Calvert-Lewin had been named as the best player for the month of December 2025.
The former Everton player has been instrumental in helping Leeds find their form in the past few weeks in the Premier League. The 28-year-old has also become Leeds United’s first winner of the Premier League Player of the Month award since Rio Ferdinand in October 2001.
Calvert-Lewin ensured that Wolves had an amazing December by scoring in all five of his appearances and netting six times in total. He produced goals in wins against Chelsea and Crystal Palace (two) and providing crucial equalisers against both Brentford and Sunderland.
His penalty also helped to initiate a thrilling comeback in the 3-3 draw with Liverpool. This is the second time that Calvert-Lewin has won the award having previously done so September 2020 after scoring five times in three matches for previous club Everton.
He is the first player from a promoted club to claim the prize since Teemu Pukki in August 2019, for Daniel Farke’s Norwich City, who is now Calvert-Lewin’s head coach at Leeds.
Calvert-Lewin topped an eight-man shortlist, which included fellow strikers Haaland, Ollie Watkins and Hugo Ekitike, after the public’s votes on the EA SPORTS website were combined with those of a panel of football experts