Man City star named in Champions League Team of the Season alongside Jude Bellingham

Phil Foden was selected in Uefa's 2023/24 Champions League Team of the Season.Phil Foden was selected in Uefa's 2023/24 Champions League Team of the Season.
Phil Foden was selected in Uefa's 2023/24 Champions League Team of the Season. | Getty Images
Three Englishmen were named in Uefa’s XI from the 2023/24 campaign.

Phil Foden has been selected in Uefa’s Champions League Team of the Season, in another acknowledgement of his fantastic 2023/24.

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The Manchester City star has already scooped two of the three personal awards for the campaign and could yet collect the PFA Football of the Year prize. Foden netted 27 in all competitions this season, five of which came in the Champions League.

The England international also provided three assists in the competition from eight appearances. It’s unsurprising then, that Foden was selected in the Team of the Season, and was the only City representative in the fantasy XI.

In fact, the 24-year-old was the only player named in the team who didn’t make it beyond the quarter-final stages, with City eliminated by Real Madrid on penalties in the last eight. The 15-time European champions had four players in the UEFA team: Dani Carvajal, Antonio Rudiger, Jude Bellingham and Vinicius Junior.

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Runners-up Borussia Dortmund also had four inclusions, with Gregor Kobel, Mats Hummels, Ian Maatsen and Marcel Sabitzer selected. The other two spots were taken by Paris Saint Germain’s Vitinha, and Harry Kane, who scored eight in 12 Champions League appearances for Bayern Munich in 2023/24.

The 11 players were chosen by UEFA's Technical Observer panel, while Vinicius won the Player of the Season award and Bellingham scooped the other Young Player award.

Uefa Champions League Team of the Season: Kobel (Dortmund); Carvajal (Real),  Rudiger (Real), Hummels (Dortmund), Maatsen (Dortmund); Sabitzer (Dortmund), Vitinha (PSG), Bellingham (Real); Foden (City), Kane (Bayern), Vinicius (Real).

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