Michal Olise crowned Bundesliga Player of the Month for January
The Bundesliga is once again awarding the official Player of the Month prize for the 2025/26 season. The DFL (German Football League) has been conducting the voting since 2018 in cooperation with its licensing partner, EA SPORTS. Bayern Munich's Michael Olise won the January 2026 prize, finishing ahead of Miro Muheim, Luka Vušković, Luis Díaz, Nico Schlotterbeck and Stefan Bell in the vote.
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The selection process consists of two stages: first, the players' performance data is considered, and then the votes of fans and experts.
The determining factor for a Matchday is the month in which its Saturday falls. This time around, the data refers to Matchdays 16 to 20.
January 2026 winner
Thomas Müller, you have been warned. With the former Bayern legend lacing his boots in Canada, a certain Olise threatening to break his incredible record of 21 assists from the 2019/20 season. The 24-year-old Frenchman has already provided 156this campaign, eight of them in the last six matchdays alone.
Olise also scored three goals himself in January, making for ten goal involvements in the first month of 2026 – a figure no other player could match. In the 5-1 win against RB Leipzig on Matchday 18, Olise even came off the bench and still managed to contribute three assists – a feat last achieved by Franck Ribéry in March 2019.
Previous Player of the Month winners
December 2025
November 2025
October 2025
Jonathan Burkardt (Eintracht Frankfurt)
September 2025
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