Here is the 40 player shortlist for the 2018 Golden Boy award. The award was won last season by Kylian Mbappe, who is also the favourite to win it this year. If Mbappe wins, he will become the first player to win it twice. The vast majority of nominees-10, a quarter of them, ply their trade in France, with Mbappe’s PSG themselves having three representatives- the most of any club.
List of Golden Boy nominees by club and country of club/league
Golden Boy nominees from Premier League/England
Liverpool: Trent Alexander Arnold
Man Utd: Diogo Dalot
Everton: Tom Davies
Man City: Phil Foden
Golden Boy 2018 nominees from Ligue 1/ France
Toulouse: Kelvin Amian, Manu Garcia
Lyon: Houssem Aouar
PSG: Moussa Diaby, Kylian Mbappe, Timothy Weah
Marseille: Boubacar Kamara
Dijon: Jules Keita
Monaco: Pietri Pellegri
Rennes: Ismaila Sarr
Golden Boy Nominees from Italy / Serie A
Atalanta: Musa Barrow
AC Milan: Patrick Cutrone
Juventus: Moise Kean
Roma: Justin Kluivert, Nicolo Zaniolo
Fiorentina: Alban Lafont
Golden Boy nominees from Eredivisie/ Netherlands
Ajax: Matthijs de Ligt
Feyenoord: Justin Bijlow
Groningen: Ritsu Doan
Golden Boy nominees from Portuguese Liga/Portugal
Porto: Eder Militao
Benfica: Joao Felix, Joao Pedro Neves Filipe Jota
Sporting Lisbon: Jovane Cabral
Golden Boy Nominees from La Liga/Spain
Real Madrid: Vincius Jr
Barcelona: Moussa Wague
Golden Boy Nominees from Bundesliga/Germany
Dortmund: Achraf Hakimi, Christian Pulisic
RB Leipzig: Marcelo Sarrachi, Dayot Upamecano
Wolfsburg: Josip Brekalo
Other Leagues (Belgium, Croatia, Scotland, Denmark, Austria and Serbia, in that order)
Standard Liege: Moussa Djenepo
Dinamo Zagreb: Dani Olmo
Celtic: Edouard Odsonne
Midtjylland: Evander
RB Salzburg: Amadou Haidara
Red Star: Dejan Joveljic
