Our Champions League end-of-season awards for 2025/26

One other spectacular UEFA Champions League marketing campaign has come to an in depth, that means it’s time handy out our end-of-season award for 2025/26.

Paris Saint-Germain retained their crown following a penalty shootout win over Arsenal within the last in Budapest, that means the Gunners must wait at the least one other yr to win the competitors for the primary time ever.

Our Champions League end-of-season awards for 2025/26:

Participant of the Season – Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

When PSG wanted him to step up probably the most this season, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia delivered. After the French membership ambled by means of the league part, the Georgian winger got here alive within the knockout stage.

‘Kvaradona’ was sensational towards Bayern Munich within the semi-finals, and although Arsenal saved him quiet for a lot of the ultimate, he nonetheless received the penalty that despatched the sport to further time.

Kvaratskhelia vs Bayern 😮‍💨

A particular semi-final efficiency ✨#UCL pic.twitter.com/DNuiLF7zZa

— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) Could 8, 2026

The 25-year-old ended the marketing campaign with the joint-most assists (6) and objective involvements (16).

Younger Participant of the Season – Lennart Karl

A star was born this season. Lennart Karl made a splash for Bayern Munich this yr when handed a possibility by Vincent Kompany.

The German attacker didn’t look misplaced within the Champions League regardless of his age, changing into the youngest participant within the competitors’s historical past to attain in three consecutive video games at 17-years-old.

LENNART KARL – REMEMBER THE NAME 👏

Lovely objective from the 17-year outdated as he picks up the ball and drives by means of midfield and fires dwelling from distance to present Bayern a lead!@tntsports & @discoveryplusUK pic.twitter.com/KZC03lzD2C

— Soccer on TNT Sports activities (@footballontnt) October 22, 2025

Karl, who turned 18 in February, completed the marketing campaign with 4 objectives and two assists in Europe, and one other 5 objectives and 5 assists within the Bundesliga. The younger man has a vibrant future forward of him.

Learn – Our Champions League Workforce of the Season for 2025/26

Second of the Season – Bodø/Glimt knock out Inter Milan

With the Champions League changing into an more and more insular competitors for the most important golf equipment in Europe, it was heartwarming to see it might nonetheless ship surprising moments and shocks.

Bodø/Glimt’s run to the spherical of 16 was undoubtedly the story of the event. The Norwegian membership relies in a small city with a inhabitants of round 53,000 folks within the Arctic Circle, but they someway punch properly above their weight.

They pulled off big upsets over Manchester Metropolis and Atletico Madrid to guide their place within the play-off spherical, the place they eradicated final yr’s runners-up Inter Milan. If Kjetil Knutsen’s facet had been maybe a contact lucky to win the house leg 3-1, they had been totally deserving of the victory over each legs after successful 2-1 on the iconic San Siro.

That is the stuff desires are fabricated from.

Objective of the Season – Luis Diaz vs PSG

This may simply be the most effective ever objective scored within the Champions League. The lobbed go from Harry Kane is beautiful, the contact from Luis Diaz is excellent, and the end is completely excellent. This was road soccer on the very highest stage of the game.

The ball from Kane 😮‍💨 The management and end from Diaz 😍 pic.twitter.com/C4r6n0XSUi

— Soccer on TNT Sports activities (@footballontnt) April 28, 2026

Help of the Season – Vinicius Jr to Kylian Mbappe vs Olympiacos

This was a chaotic season for Actual Madrid off the pitch, however they nonetheless produced some stunning soccer on it when their gamers took a break from feuding with one another.

Vinicius Junior unleashed Kylian Mbappe in behind the Olympiacos defence with an outstanding outside-of-the-boot go from out broad. The timing and placement couldn’t have been higher, permitting Mbappe to slip the ball beneath the goalkeeper.

Equaliser for Actual Madrid, and who else as Kylian Mbappe races away from the defence to fit dwelling ⚡️@tntsports & @discoveryplusUK pic.twitter.com/PNw9nMKMiR

— Soccer on TNT Sports activities (@footballontnt) November 26, 2025

Match of the Season – PSG 5-4 Bayern Munich

For pretty much as good as PSG had been, Bayern Munich had been the nice entertainers of the Champions League this yr. A lot in order that that they had two contenders for the competitors’s finest match.

Their battle with Actual Madrid within the quarter-finals was breathtaking, but it surely was solely overtaken by a basic encounter between PSG and Bayern within the semis.

The primary leg featured 9 objectives, with neither facet placing the handbrake on for 70 minutes. You might not look away as the most effective attacking expertise in soccer went toe to toe with one another on the Parc des Princes.

It might go down as the best contest in Champions League historical past.

Howler of the Season – Antonin Kinsky vs Atletico Madrid

A mistake by a goalkeeper is usually deadly. Spurs participant Antonin Kinsky made two towards Atletico Madrid that led on to objectives. And on his Champions League debut, too.

A slip from the Czech allowed Atletico to attain the opener simply 5 minutes into the spherical of 16 tie. His head was clearly gone, as he mishit the ball to present Julian Alvarez a tap-in for the Spanish facet’s third objective after quarter-hour.

Supervisor Igor Tudor put Kinsky out of his distress, instantly changing him with Guglielmo Vicario to place an finish to a nightmare efficiency.

Fortuitously for Kinsky, he recovered from that horror to play a key half in Spurs’ profitable survival bid within the Premier League.

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