List of Golden Boy Nominees 2018- Golden Boy Award 40 Player Shortlist

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

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Best Dutch Eredivisie players 2017-18 season | Netherlands Eredivisie Team of the Season 2017-2018

Here is the Eredivisie team of the year 2018, officially announced by the league and based on stats collected by them. Not surprisingly, the team is dominated by players from champions PSV Eindhoven and runners up Ajax Amsterdam. Angelino and Mason Mount, loaned to NAC and Vitesse from Man City and Chelsea respectively, are also in this team of the 2017/2018 season.

Eredivisie Team of the Season 2017/18

Sergio Padt (Groningen), Matthijs de Ligt (Ajax), Daniel Schwaab (PSV), Santiago Arias (PSV), Angelino (NAC Breda), Lasse Schone (Ajax), Steven Berghuis (Feyenoord), Mason Mount (Vitesse), Hakim Ziyech (Ajax), Luuk de Jong (PSV), Hirving Lozano (PSV)

Holland Eredivisie Team of the Season by club:-

PSV (4)
Ajax (3)
Groningen, Vitesse, NAC Breda and Feyenoord- 1 each

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