Who has been the Bundesliga 2 Player of the Season so far in 2025/26?
We're already halfway through the 2025/26 Bundesliga 2 season, with 17 of 34 matchdays already chalked off. Which players have stood out for you so far? Vote now in the official Bundesliga app!
There are 16 on the shortlist for player of the 2025/26 Bundesliga 2 season so far, including leading scorer Younes Ebnoutalib - former of Elversberg but now with Eintracht Frankfurt - 2025 Goal of the Year winner Ivan Prtajin of Kaiserslautern and Schalke goalkeeper Loris Karius.
By voting in the official Bundesliga app every day, you can make sure your favourites make it to the next round.
How it works
Whether it's through goals, crucial tackles or brilliant saves, all of the nominees have made their mark on Germany's second division during the first half of the season.
In total, 16 players are up for the vote:
- Naatan Skyttä (Kaiserslautern)
- Ivan Prtajin (Kaiserslautern)
- Soufiane El-Faouzi (Schalke)
- Nikola Katić (Schalke)
- Loris Karius (Schalke)
- Younes Ebnoutalib (Elversberg)
- Isac Lidberg (Darmstadt)
- Benjamin Källman (Hannover)
- Filip Bilbija (Paderborn)
- Felix Klaus (Greuther Fürth)
- Noel Futkeu (Greuther Fürth)
- Julian Justvan (Nuremberg)
- Fabian Reese (Hertha Berlin)
- Timo Horn (Bochum)
- Marvin Wanitzek (Karlsruhe)
- Alexander Bernhardsson (Holstein Kiel)
The 16 nominees will go head-to-head in one-on-one match-ups from 2pm CET each day this week, leading to the final from Thursday.
Watch: Prtajin's Bundesliga 2's Goal of the Year!
The season resumes on Friday, 16 January.
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