Football. PSG ready to sweep the board, Cherki appointed... What you need to know about the UNFP Trophies

On cloud nine , PSG should not be left behind on Sunday during the grand mass of French football and glean several awards at the UNFP Trophies. The 2025 French champions are dominating the nominations, like the title of best player of the season where only Lyonnais Rayan Cherki competes with four Parisian players: Ousmane Dembélé , the big favorite, Désiré Doué, Achraf Hakimi and Vitinha. After the long reign in this jersey of Kylian Mbappé , winner of the last five editions before leaving for Real Madrid last summer, the trophy should remain in Paris.

Luis Enrique also starts with the prognosis for the trophy of best coach at this 33rd ceremony celebrating the talents of French football, at the Pavillon Gabriel, a stone's throw from the Champs-Élysées. The Spaniard, builder of the collective strength of PSG , could well succeed Eric Roy (Brest), who is once again among the five contenders like Bruno Genesio (Lille), crowned in 2022 when he managed Rennes, and the Englishman from Strasbourg, Liam Rosenior , praised for his tactical sense throughout the season.

On the other hand, the Italian from Marseille, Roberto De Zerbi, is not included in the list of five "papabili", completed by the Austrian technician from Monaco, Adi Hütter.

The recent European exploits of Gianluigi Donnarumma , already crowned in 2022 and 2024, will perhaps influence the vote of his peers, who make up the jury, more than the advent of Lille's Lucas Chevalier, also brilliant in the Champions League and entered this season in the France group.

The capital club also has two players among the contenders for the Most Promising Player award to succeed... Parisian Warren Zaïre-Emery : Doué and Joao Neves. They are in competition with Monaco's Eliesse Ben Seghir, Lille's Ayyoub Bouaddi, and Strasbourg's Andrey Santos.

Even among the women, PSG has a candidate, Sakina Karchaoui, facing three Lyonnaises, Melchie Dumornay , Lindsay Heaps and Tabitha Chawinga , and the Paris FC striker Clara Mateo, already named best player by the Women's League (LFFP).

Only the Just Fontaine trophy for the best goal of the year will surely elude PSG. For the only category awarded by public vote, the popular jury must decide between the goals of Santos against Toulouse, Esteban Lepaul (Angers), who scored his first goal in Ligue 1 with a volley from the outside of his right foot against Paris, the solo action of Nantes' Simon Moses in the middle of the Rennes defense or the overhead kicks of Maghnes Akliouche (Monaco) against Rennes and Amine Gouiri (OM) against Brest.

Finally, the players' union will also reward the best referee, François Letexier having won the prize the two previous seasons, and the citizen player trophy for social action.