CAF Awards 2025 Winner List VIRAL

CAF Awards 2025 Winner List VIRAL; Why Mo Salah Couldn’t Secure the Best African Player Award

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CAF Awards 2025 Winner List VIRAL; Why Mo Salah Couldn’t Secure the Best African Player Award

Summary

Achraf Hakimi is the first defender in 52 years to be crowned the CAF African Player of the Year.
Despite winning the Premier League Golden Boot, Mohamed Salah lost due to Hakimi’s historic Champions League success with PSG.
The CAF Awards 2025 winner list was swept by Morocco, winning Player, Goalkeeper, and Young Player of the Year categories.

The CAF Awards 2025 Winner List has officially gone viral, marking a historic night for Moroccan football. In a glittering ceremony held in Rabat, Paris Saint-Germain defender Achraf Hakimi was crowned the African Player of the Year, ending a 52-year wait for a defender to claim the continent's most prestigious individual honor.

While fans celebrate Hakimi’s triumph, social media is buzzing with debate over why Liverpool star Mohamed Salah missed out on the top prize yet again. Despite a record-breaking season in England, the Egyptian King had to settle for second place.

Men's Categories: CAF Awards 2025 Winner List

Let's take a detailed look at the CAF Awards 2025 Winner List.

Category	Winner	Club/Country
Player of the Year	Achraf Hakimi	PSG/Morocco
Goalkeeper of the Year	Yassine Bounou	Al-Hilal/Morocco
Coach of the Year	Bubista	Cape Verde
Young Player of the Year	Othmane Maamma	Watford/Morocco
Club of the Year	Pyramid FC	Egypt
National Team of the Year	Morocco U-20	-

Men's CAF Awards 2025 winner list

Women's Categories: CAF Awards 2025 Winner List

Here's a look at the CAF Winner list for the women's category.

Category	Winner	Club/Country
Player of the Year	Ghizlane Chebbak	Al-Hilal/Morocco
Goalkeeper of the Year	Chaimaka Nnadozie	Brighton/Nigeria
Young player of the Year	Doha El Madani	AS FAR/Morocco
National Team of the Year	Nigeria	-

Women's CAF Award Winners 2025

Why Mohamed Salah Couldn’t Secure the Award

This exclusion has created quite a furor among football purists, who argue the case of Mohamed Salah. He had a brilliant individual season, equalling Thierry Henry's mark with a fourth Premier League Golden Boot, and claimed the Playmaker of the Season award. Under his influence, Liverpool also recovered the Premier League title.

But the voting panel, made up of CAF experts, journalists, and coaches, gave precedence to major trophies won in the just-ended 2024/25 season, and it is here that Achraf Hakimi had an uncontested advantage.

The Moroccan full-back was instrumental in PSG's historic quadruple – their first ever UEFA Champions League title, the Ligue 1 title, and the Coupe de France. Whereas Mohamed Salah delivered incredible individual stats, Hakimi’s contribution to European glory and his role in guiding Morocco to 2026 World Cup qualification created a narrative of "team success" that voters found impossible to turn a blind eye to. Consequently, Hakimi topped the CAF Awards 2025 Winner List, leaving Salah as the runner-up, with Victor Osimhen coming third.

A Historic Night for Morocco

The CAF Award Winners 2025 ceremony served as a testament to Morocco's growing influence in world football. Beyond Hakimi, Ghizlane Chebbak became the first Moroccan woman to win Player of the Year, with Yassine Bounou winning the best goalkeeper award. This dominance by Moroccans in the recent CAF Award Winner List signifies a golden generation for the Atlas Lions.