Northern Ireland Football Writers' Player of the Year

The Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association's Award was instituted in 1970...

1970 Des Dickson..... Coleraine
1971 Bryan Hamilton.. Linfield
1972 Billy Humphries. Ards
1973 John McPolin.... Crusaders
1974 Ivan Murray..... Coleraine
1975 Ivan Murray..... Coleraine
1976 Warren Feeney... Glentoran
1977 Billy Caskey.... Glentoran
1978 Jim Martin...... Linfield
1979 Ray McGuigan.... Glenavon
1980 Lindsay McKeown. Linfield
1981 Gary Blackledge. Glentoran
1982 Felix Healy..... Coleraine
1983 George Dunlop... Linfield
1984 Billy Murray.... Linfield
1985 Martin McGaughey Linfield
1986 Trevor Anderson. Linfield
1987 Damien Byrne.... Ards
1988 Alan Paterson... Glentoran
1989 Marty Magee..... Portadown
1990 Ollie Ralph..... Newry Town
1991 Stepehn McBride. Glenavon
1992 Ray Morrison.... Glentoran
1993 Paul Byrne...... Bangor
1994 Noel Bailie..... Linfield
1995 Kevin McKeown... Crusaders
1996 Peter Kennedy... Portadown
1997 Stephen Baxter.. Crusaders
1998 Marty Tabb...... Cliftonville
1999 John Devine..... Glentoran
2000 Vinny Arkins.... Portadown
2001 Glenn Ferguson.. Linfield
2002 Vinny Arkins.... Portadown
2003 Gary Smyth...... Glentoran
2004 Glenn Ferguson.. Linfield
2005 Mark Glendinning Glentoran
2006 Glenn Ferguson.. Linfield
2007 William Murphy.. Linfield
2008 Michael Gault... Linfield
2009 Chris Scannell.. Cliftonville
2010 Rory Patterson.. Coleraine
2011 Stuart Dallas... Crusaders