Newcastle United supporters have crowned Dan Burn as their Player of the Season with 52 per cent of the vote.
Dan Burn has been named Newcastle United’s Player of the Season for the 2025-26 campaign.
An iconic season saw the 6ft 7in defender star in all but one of the club’s Premier League fixtures last season. But most importantly, his towering first-half header in March sent the Magpies on their way to winning the Carabao Cup final.
Burn is now etched into Toon folklore at his boyhood club despite arriving as a stop-gap signing. Viewed as someone who can do a job following the Saudi-backed takeover, the Blyth native remains an essential part of Eddie Howe’s squad three-and-a-half years on.
The 33-year-old was released by Newcastle as a schoolboy but rose through the lower-league ranks before earning his Premier League stripes. By his own admission, a return to the Magpies looked unlikely once PIF bought the club but he has gone on to become a local hero.
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Few could argue that Burn did not do it the hard way and his Wembley strike immortalised him on Tyneside. A maiden England call-up amplified the praise to an international audience and being crowned Newcastle’s Player of the Season has placed the cherry on top of an incredible campaign.
“Newcastle United defender Dan Burn has won the club's official Player of the Season award for 2024-25 as voted for by the fans,” an official club announcement read. “It has been a season like no other for the Geordie defender after scoring in United's Carabao Cup final victory against Liverpool, ending the club's 70-year wait for a domestic trophy, as well as helping the Magpies secure UEFA Champions League qualification for a second time in their last three seasons following a fifth-placed finish.
“Burn was also rewarded a first-ever international call-up with England at the age of 32, two days before his cup final heroics at Wembley Stadium, before keeping a clean sheet on his Three Lions debut in a 2-0 win against Albania at the same venue the following week. Picking up 52 per cent of the votes, the boyhood Magpies supporter beat the likes of Alexander Isak, Jacob Murphy and Lewis Hall to win the award and is the third of the Magpies' current defenders to do so, following in the footsteps of Jamaal Lascelles in 2017-18 and Kieran Trippier in 2022-23.”
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