Antoine Semenyo has capped a breakthrough season in English football with inclusion in the Premier League Fans Team of the Season, as supporters across the league voted the Ghana international among the standout performers of the 2025/26 campaign.
The Black Stars forward’s remarkable year — split between AFC Bournemouth and Manchester City — earned him the ultimate recognition from the fans who watch Premier League football week in, week out, placing him alongside some of the most celebrated names in the division.
It has been the kind of campaign that redefines a player’s standing in the game. Semenyo delivered consistently across the season, registering 21 goal contributions through a combination of crucial goals, important assists, and relentless attacking displays that kept defenders across the league on edge.
His pace, physicality, and versatility made him one of the most difficult forwards to contain in England’s top flight, and the numbers reflected what the eye test confirmed — Semenyo was operating at a level that demanded recognition. That recognition duly arrived: he was nominated for the Premier League Player of the Season award and claimed the Premier League Player of the Month honour earlier in the campaign, signalling that his form was not just consistent but genuinely elite.
The Premier League Fans Team of the Season is determined entirely by supporter vote — a shortlist of standout performers whittled down to an XI by the millions who follow the league most closely. That Semenyo earned his place in the team speaks to the impression he left not just on statisticians and analysts, but on ordinary football fans.
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He was not alone in receiving expert validation. Former Manchester United captain and pundit Gary Neville also included the Ghanaian in his own Premier League Team of the Season — a nod from one of English football’s most respected voices that further underscored the legitimacy of Semenyo’s rise.
The Full Fans XI
The complete Premier League Fans Team of the Season for 2025/26 reads:
GK: David Raya | RB: Jurrien Timber | CB: William Saliba | CB: Gabriel Magalhães | LB: Nico O’Reilly | RM: Antoine Semenyo | CM: Declan Rice | CM: Bruno Fernandes | LM: Rayan Cherki | FW: Erling Haaland | FW: Igor Thiago
For Semenyo personally, the honour represents the latest — and perhaps most significant — milestone in a career trajectory that has accelerated sharply. Once a promising attacker developing his game on the south coast of England, he is now regarded as one of the Premier League’s elite wide players and, increasingly, one of Ghana’s most influential football exports.
The timing matters beyond the personal. With international football on the horizon, Semenyo arrives at the Ghana national team setup carrying the form, confidence, and reputation of a player operating at the very highest level. For the Black Stars, a forward capable of troubling any defence in the world is exactly the kind of asset that can shift the fortunes of a nation with serious ambitions on the continental and global stage.
The 2025/26 season has not merely been a good year for Antoine Semenyo — it has been the season that announced him to the world.