Landon Donovan MVP Award

The award was renamed in 2015 to honor of its 2009 winner, Landon Donovan

The Landon Donovan MVP Award is an annual award for MLS players. It is voted on by media, MLS players and club management and is given to the player deemed the most valuable player in the league each season.

From 1996 to 2007 the award was known as the Honda MLS Most Valuable Player, for commercial purposes. From 2007 to 2014, the award was titled the Volkswagen MLS Most Valuable Player.

Players for D.C. United have won the award a record four times, while Kansas City and Los Angeles Galaxy players have won a second best three times. Kansas City's Preki is the only player to ever win twice, in 1997 and 2003.

On January 15, 2015 MLS renamed its MVP award in honor of Landon Donovan.[1][2]

Winners

Season Player Club Other Finalists
1996 Colombia Carlos Valderrama Tampa Bay Mutiny Roy Lassiter, Preki
1997 United States Preki Kansas City Wizards Marco Etcheverry, Carlos Valderrama
1998 Bolivia Marco Etcheverry D.C. United Cobi Jones, Peter Nowak
1999 United States Jason Kreis Dallas Burn Marco Etcheverry, Jaime Moreno
2000 United States Tony Meola Kansas City Wizards Mamadou Diallo, Clint Mathis
2001 Honduras Alex Pineda Chacón Miami Fusion Jeff Agoos, Diego Serna
2002 Guatemala Carlos Ruíz Los Angeles Galaxy Mark Chung, Taylor Twellman
2003 United States Preki (2) Kansas City Wizards Ante Razov, John Spencer
2004 Honduras Amado Guevara MetroStars Joe Cannon, Jaime Moreno
2005 United States Taylor Twellman New England Revolution Dwayne De Rosario, Jaime Moreno
2006 Argentina Christian Gómez D.C. United Jeff Cunningham, Dwayne De Rosario
2007 Brazil Luciano Emilio D.C. United Juan Pablo Ángel, Cuauhtémoc Blanco
2008 Argentina Guillermo Barros Schelotto Columbus Crew Landon Donovan, Cuauhtémoc Blanco
2009 United States Landon Donovan Los Angeles Galaxy Shalrie Joseph, Jeff Cunningham
2010 Colombia David Ferreira [3] FC Dallas Edson Buddle, Chris Wondolowski
2011 Canada Dwayne De Rosario [4] D.C. United Brad Davis, Brek Shea
2012 United States Chris Wondolowski [5] San Jose Earthquakes Thierry Henry, Graham Zusi
2013 United States Mike Magee [6] Chicago Fire Robbie Keane, Marco Di Vaio
2014 Republic of Ireland Robbie Keane [7] Los Angeles Galaxy Lee Nguyen, Obafemi Martins
2015 Italy Sebastian Giovinco [8] Toronto FC Kei Kamara, Benny Feilhaber

References

  1. ↑ "Major League Soccer names Most Valuable Player award after Landon Donovan". mlssoccer.com. January 15, 2015. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
  2. ↑ "MLS renames MVP award to honor Landon Donovan". January 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ "FC Dallas attacker Ferreira voted 2010 Volkswagen MVP". mlssoccer.com. November 19, 2010.
  4. ↑ "D.C. United's De Rosario voted Volkswagen MLS MVP". mlssoccer.com. November 18, 2011.
  5. ↑ "San Jose's Wondolowski wins 2012 Volkswagen MLS MVP". mlssoccer.com. November 29, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Chicago Fire forward Mike Magee voted 2013 Volkswagen MLS Most Valuable Player". mlssoccer.com. December 5, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Robbie Keane named 2014 Volkswagen MLS Most Valuable Player". lagalaxy.com. December 3, 2014.
  8. ↑ John Molinaro (2 December 2015). "TFC’s Giovinco named Major League Soccer MVP". Sportsnet.ca. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
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