FWA Tribute Award explained

The Football Writers' Association Tribute Award (often called the FWA Tribute Award, or simply the Tribute Award) is given by the Football Writers Association to an individual that the committee feels has made an outstanding contribution to the national game.^[1] ^[2]

The award was first given in 1983, and was won by Ron Greenwood.

In 2024, Emma Hayes became the first woman to win the award, for the first time in its 42 year history.

All-time winners

Season	Person	Nationality
1982–83
1983–84
1984–85
1985–86
1986–87
1987–88
1988–89
1989–90
1990–91
1991–92
1992–93
1993–94
1994–95
1995–96
1996–97
1997–98
1998–99
1999–2000
2000–01
2001–02
2002–03
2003–04
2004–05		France
2005–06
2006–07
2007–08
2008–09
2009–10
2010–11		France
2011–12
2011–12
2012–13
2013–14		Portugal
2014–15
2015–16		France
2016–17
2017–18	Pelé	Brazil
2018–19
2019–20		Belgium
2020–21
2022–23	^[3]
2023–24	Emma Hayes

Winners by country

Country	Number of wins
	27
	3
	3
	2
	2
	1

External links

Football Writers' Association (archived 13 December 2007)

Notes and References

Web site: Football Writers' Association: The FWA Tribute Award . 26 December 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110927095932/http://www.footballwriters.co.uk/awards/fwa-tribute/ . 27 September 2011 . dead .
Web site: Previous Winners – Tribute Football Writers' Association. footballwriters.co.uk. 8 May 2018.
Web site: Yaya Toure honoured with FWA Tribute Award . footballwriters.co.uk . 20 February 2023 . 20 February 2023.