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MLS Player of the Month

monthly soccer award given to players in Major League Soccer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ6716652 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Major League Soccer Player of Month is a monthly soccer award given to players in Major League Soccer. The honor is given to the player deemed to have had the best cumulative performance in each month by a panel of journalists from the North American Soccer Reporters organization. The award was formerly voted on by the Professional Soccer Reporters Association.

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“MLS Player of the Month” enters the record as monthly soccer award given to players in Major League Soccer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Player, Month and monthly can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “MLS Player of the Month” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.