{"id":9684,"date":"2026-06-18T16:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=9684"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:36:52","slug":"25-26-player-of-the-season-second-spot-for-raya-player-of-the-season-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=9684","title":{"rendered":"25\/26 Player of the Season: Second spot for Raya | Player of the season | News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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After another brilliant campaign between our posts, David Raya has finished second in the voting for our men\u2019s Player of the Season award for 2025\/26.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our Spanish shot-stopper polled a massive 40% of the votes to come away with a silver medal to add to his Golden Glove, Premier League title-winning campaign as he continues to produce heroics in our net.<\/p>\n

David kept 19 clean sheets in the league to finish well ahead of his rival shot-stoppers in the race for the Golden Glove, with Manchester City\u2019s Gianluigi Donnarumma four behind in second spot. That saw our custodian claim the prize for the third straight season, joining an elite list of goalkeepers to achieve the feat: Pepe Reina, Joe Hart and Ederson.<\/p>\n

His 19 shutouts were also the joint-most of any Arsenal goalkeeper in a single Premier League campaign, matching David Seaman\u2019s totals in 1993\/94 and 1998\/99.<\/p>\n

On top of that, David kept nine clean sheets in 14 Champions League appearances as we made it all the way to the final, where he also saved a penalty in the shootout loss to Paris Saint-Germain. In fact, no goalkeeper kept more clean sheets for a big five European league side in 2025\/26 than David\u2019s total of 28.<\/p>\n

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He played in 37 out of our 38 Premier League games en route to the title, while he missed just one of our European matches, giving way to Kepa Arrizabalaga in our final league and Champions League league phase games respectively. <\/p>\n

A string of spectacular saves caught the eye during that time, including Save of the Month contenders against Manchester United, Chelsea and Brighton & Hove Albion, for which he won December\u2019s prize. His exploits also saw him nominated for the Premier League\u2019s Player of the Month award in March.<\/p>\n

His seasonal haul can be boosted as he has been included on a six-player shortlist for the PFA Player of the Season award, while he was in the running for the Premier League\u2019s equivalent. He is also hoping to return home from the World Cup with a winner’s medal, having been included in Spain’s squad for the finals.<\/p>\n

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David Raya completes Golden Glove hat-trick <\/span>
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Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After another brilliant campaign between our posts, David Raya has finished second in the voting for our men\u2019s Player of the Season award for 2025\/26. Our Spanish shot-stopper polled a massive 40% of the votes to come away with a silver medal to add to his Golden Glove, Premier League title-winning campaign as he continues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}