Liverpool's Florian Wirtz has been named Germany's player of the year for the 2024-25 season after thriving with Bayer Leverkusen , while SC Freiburg's Julian Schuster won the coach's accolade.

Germany teammates Giulia Gwinn and Ann-Katrin Berger share the women's player of the year award after both received 608 votes from members of the Association of German Sports Journalists in the yearly poll organized by kicker magazine.

Kicker revealed that 22-year-old Wirtz, who made the move to Liverpool in June, received 191 votes, ahead of Michael Olise of Bayern Munich (81), Nick Woltemade of Stuttgart (71) and Thomas Müller (70), who last week joined MLS side Vancouver Whitecaps after spending 17 years at Bayern.

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