The winners of January 2025's EA SPORTS Player, Barclays Manager, Guinness Goal and Premier League Save of the Month awards have been revealed.
Kluivert wins first EA SPORTS Player of the Month award
Justin Kluivert has been voted the EA SPORTS Player of the Month for January 2025, winning the award for the first time.
Kluivert produced five goals and two assists in his four appearances. His seven goal involvements in January were the joint-most of all players in the Premier League, as he helped to maintain AFC Bournemouth's pursuit of a European spot with three wins and a draw from four matches.
— AFC Bournemouth 🍒 (@afcbournemouth) February 7, 2025
The 25-year-old scored an equalising penalty in a draw at Chelsea before scoring a hat-trick and assisting Bournemouth's other goal in a 4-1 win away to a Newcastle United side who were undefeated in nine matches across all competitions. That hat-trick meant in one appearance at St James' Park he trebled the goal total at the stadium of his legendary father Patrick, a former UEFA Champions League winner who played at Newcastle for one season in 2004/05.
Kluivert then ended the month with a goal and an assist in a 5-0 win over Nottingham Forest, ending their opponents' eight-match unbeaten run in the Premier League.
Kluivert joins elite club of Dutch winners
Kluivert becomes just the second Bournemouth player to win a Player of the Month award, after Dominic Solanke back in December 2023.
He also joins an elite list of Dutch players to win the award, following in the footsteps of Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dennis Bergkamp, Arjen Robben, Rafael van der Vaart, Robin van Persie, Tim Krul and Virgil van Dijk. Van Dijk was the last Dutch winner, in December 2018.
Kluivert topped a seven-man shortlist that also included team-mate Dean Huijsen, after the public's votes on the EA SPORTS website were combined with those of a panel of football experts.
2024/25 EA SPORTS Player of the Month winners
August: Erling Haaland (Man City)
September: Cole Palmer (Chelsea)
October: Chris Wood (Nott'm Forest)
November: Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
December: Alexander Isak (Newcastle)
Iraola named Barclays Manager of the Month
Andoni Iraola has been named the Barclays Manager of the Month for January 2025, winning the award for the second time in his career.
Iraola led AFC Bournemouth through the month unbeaten, winning three matches and drawing the other, with his team scoring 12 goals in the process.
His team began January with a 1-0 win over Everton, followed by a 2-2 draw at Chelsea. The Cherries then won 4-1 away to a Newcastle United side who were undefeated in nine matches across all competitions, before they ended the month with an incredible 5-0 win against third-placed Nottingham Forest, a result that extended Bournemouth's unbeaten league run to 11 matches and moved them up to sixth place in the table.
Iraola adds to his Barclays Manager of the Month award from March 2024, making him the second Bournemouth manager to win the award on multiple occasions, after Eddie Howe, who won it three times with the Cherries between 2017 and 2018 before joining current club Newcastle.
Iraola topped a four-man shortlist that also included Arsenal's Mikel Arteta, Manchester City's Pep Guardiola and Newcastle's Howe, after votes from the public were combined with those of a panel of experts.
2024/25 Barclays Manager of the Month winners
August: Fabian Hurzeler (Brighton)
September: Enzo Maresca (Chelsea)
October: Nuno Espirito Santo (Nottingham Forest)
November: Arne Slot (Liverpool)
December: Nuno Espirito Santo (Nottingham Forest)
Brooks gives Bournemouth awards TREBLE with Guinness Goal of the Month
David Brooks' brilliant volley against Everton has been voted as January 2025's Guinness Goal of the Month, giving AFC Bournemouth a Premier League awards TREBLE.
Brooks' win comes after Justin Kluivert claimed the EA SPORTS Player of the Month award and Andoni Iraola won the Barclays Manager of the Month prize.
Bournemouth are just the third team to win all three awards in the same month. Manchester United did so in November 2023 with Harry Maguire, Erik ten Hag and Alejandro Garnacho, while Newcastle United were the first to do it, with Miguel Almiron and Eddie Howe in October 2022. Almiron won both the Player and Goal of the Month awards.
Brooks' goal was a 77th-minute winner, with the midfielder expertly volleying in from Milos Kerkez’s cross after coming off the bench just a few minutes earlier.
The Wales international wins a Premier League monthly award for the first time and becomes only the third Bournemouth player to win a Guinness Goal of the Month award, after Jermain Defoe in December 2017 and Charlie Daniels in August 2017.
Brooks' effort topped an eight-goal shortlist that also included two goals from team-mate Kluivert after the public's votes were combined with those of a panel of football experts.
2024/25 Guinness Goal of the Month winners
August: Cole Palmer (Chelsea)
September: Jhon Duran (Aston Villa)
October: Nicolas Jackson (Chelsea)
November: Harry Wilson (Fulham)
December: Alexander Isak (Newcastle)
Dubravka wins Save of the Month award
Martin Dubravka has won the Premier League Save of the Month award for January 2025 for his stunning point-blank stop for Newcastle United against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Dubravka showed incredible reactions to keep out Jorgen Strand Larsen’s close-range effort, which he somehow managed to deflect onto the woodwork to preserve a clean sheet in a 3-0 win.
It was one of two Dubravka saves on a shortlist of six of the best stops by goalkeepers across the month.
The 36-year-old Slovak wins the award for the first time in his career and becomes the second Newcastle goalkeeper to win it since it was introduced in 2022/23, after Nick Pope, who claimed it in August 2022 and January 2023.
2024/25 Save of the Month winners
August: David Raya (Arsenal)
September: Andre Onana (Man Utd)
October: Robert Sanchez (Chelsea)
November: Andre Onana (Man Utd)
December: Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa)
