PSG’s Achraf Hakimi voted African Footballer of the Yr | Soccer Information

Hakimi is the primary Moroccan since 1998 and the primary defender since 1973 to win Africa’s most prestigious award.

French facet Paris Saint-Germain footballer Achraf Hakimi has been named African Footballer of the Yr, turning into the primary defender to say the prize in 52 years.

Moroccan proper again Hakimi completed forward of Liverpool’s Egyptian ahead Mohamed Salah and Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen in Wednesday’s vote on the 2025 CAF Awards within the Moroccan metropolis of Rabat.

Hakimi was awarded the trophy after serving to PSG to their first ever Champions League title in Could after they bulldozed Italy’s Inter Milan 5-0 within the ultimate as a part of a historic treble-winning season through which in addition they gained the Ligue 1 title and the Coupe de France.

In August, PSG additionally beat English facet Tottenham Hotspur within the UEFA Tremendous Cup to select up their fourth trophy within the 2025 calendar 12 months.

Hakimi – the primary Moroccan to win the award since Mustapha Hadji in 1998 and the primary defender since Bwanga Tshimen of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, then Zaire, in 1973 – stated it was “actually a proud second”.

“This trophy isn’t just for me however all of the robust women and men who’ve goals of being a footballer in Africa,” he stated.

“And for people who all the time believed in me since I used to be a toddler, that I might be knowledgeable footballer sooner or later, I want to thank all of them,” he added.

A recognition that crowns years of onerous work, success, and unforgettable moments.

My gratitude goes to my household, my teammates, and everybody who works with me each day, on and off the sphere. Your belief, dedication, and help make me stronger and permit me to develop.

Thanks… pic.twitter.com/ZssdnZ2T55

— Achraf Hakimi (@AchrafHakimi) November 19, 2025

Hakimi additionally completed sixth within the males’s 2025 Ballon d’Or rankings in September, the annual award for the world’s finest footballer, reaching the very best place ever by a Moroccan. His teammate and French worldwide ahead Ousmane Dembele was named the Ballon d’Or winner.

Moroccan footballers additionally picked up the boys’s Goalkeeper of the Yr award and the Ladies’s Footballer of the Yr awards as they had been awarded to Saudi Arabia-based gamers Yassine Bounou and Ghizlane Chebbak, respectively.

Coronary heart, expertise, affect. By no means unnoticed.

For giving her all, Ghizlane Chebbak is the Ladies’s Participant of the Yr. 🌟🇲🇦#CAFAwards2025 pic.twitter.com/kYSSHtdsi5

— CAF_Online (@CAF_Online) November 19, 2025

Nigerian goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie, who just lately sealed a transfer to the English membership Brighton & Hove Albion within the Ladies’s Tremendous League, gained the Ladies’s Goalkeeper of the Yr award for a 3rd successive 12 months.

Cape Verde supervisor Bubista was awarded Coach of the Yr after main the African island nation of 525,000 individuals to a debut look at subsequent 12 months’s World Cup in the USA, Mexico and Canada.

Cape Verde won’t be the smallest nation on the World Cup, nonetheless, after the Caribbean island nation Curacao, dwelling to only 156,000 individuals, certified after a 0-0 draw with Jamaica on Wednesday.