USMNT Player of the Year winners

Year	US Soccer MNT Award	Futbol de Primera Award	US Soccer Young Player Award
1984	Ricky Davis
1985	Perry Van der Beck
1986	Paul Caligiuri
1987	Brent Goulet
1988	Peter Vermes
1989	Mike Windischmann
1990	Tab Ramos
1991	Hugo Perez	Hugo Perez
1992	Marcelo Balboa	Eric Wynalda
1993	Thomas Dooley	Thomas Dooley
1994	Marcelo Balboa	Marcelo Balboa
1995	Alexi Lalas	Alexi Lalas
1996	Eric Wynalda	Eric Wynalda
1997	Kasey Keller	Eddie Pope
1998	Cobi Jones	Cobi Jones	Josh Wolff
1999	Kasey Keller	Kasey Keller	Ben Olsen
2000	Chris Armas	Claudio Reyna	Landon Donovan
2001	Earnie Stewart	Earnie Stewart	DaMarcus Beasley
2002	Brad Friedel	Landon Donovan	Bobby Convey
2003	Landon Donovan	Landon Donovan	Freddy Adu
2004	Landon Donovan	Landon Donovan	Eddie Johnson
2005	Kasey Keller	Kasey Keller	Benny Feilhaber
2006	Oguchi Onyewu	Clint Dempsey	Jozy Altidore
2007	Clint Dempsey	Landon Donovan	Michael Bradley
2008	Tim Howard	Landon Donovan	Sacha Kljestan
2009	Landon Donovan	Landon Donovan	Luis Gil
2010	Landon Donovan	Landon Donovan	Gale Agbossoumonde
2011	Clint Dempsey	Clint Dempsey	Brek Shea
2012	Clint Dempsey	Clint Dempsey	Rubio Rubin
2013	Jozy Altidore	Jozy Altidore	Wil Trapp
2014	Tim Howard	Tim Howard	DeAndre Yedlin
2015	Michael Bradley	Michael Bradley	Matt Miazga
2016	Jozy Altidore	Jozy Altidore	Christian Pulisic
2017	Christian Pulisic	Christian Pulisic	Josh Sargent
2018	Zack Steffen		Alex Mendez
2019	Christian Pulisic		Sergino Dest
2020	Weston McKennie		Gio Reyna
2021	Christian Pulisic		Ricardo Pepi
2022	Tyler Adams		Yunus Musah
2023	Christian Pulisic		Kevin Paredes
2024	Antonee Robinson		Tanner Tessmann
2025	Chris Richards		Benjamin Cremaschi

The Futbol de Primera award was awarded from 1991 through 2017 and the US Soccer Federation began awarding the Young Player award in 1998.

Records & Trivia

Most Wins: Landon Donovan (12), Christian Pulisic (7), Clint Dempsey (6) across all three categories. Limiting it to the US Soccer Male Player of the Year, it’s Donovan (4), Pulisic (4), Dempsey (3).
Youngest Winner of the US Soccer Player of the Year and Futbol de Primera awards: Christian Pulisic (19 years old in 2017).
Goalkeepers: Kasey Keller (5 wins) holds the record for most wins by a goalkeeper, followed by Tim Howard (3) and Brad Friedel (1) across all three categories. It’s Keller (3), Howard (2), and Friedel (1) for the US Socer Male Player of the Year award.