Julian Brandt wins Bundesliga Player of the Month for February 2019
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 22-year-old player wins the award for the month of February.
22-year-old Bayer 04 Leverkusen player Julian Brandt has been awarded the Bundesliga Player Of The Month for February 2019 by the Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL) in cooperation with EA SPORTS FIFA 19.
Julian Brandt has been one of Bayer 04 Leverkusen’s key players this season.
No other Bundesliga player had a hand in more goals in February – six in total, which included four assists in four games, plus two goals in Bayer 04’s 5-1 victory against Mainz 05.
Brandt took the award ahead of other nominees including VfL Wolfsburg´s player Yannick Gerhardt and Jerome Roussillon, Vincenzo Grifo from SC Freiburg and the RB Leipzig players Marcel Halstenberg and Willi Orban.
Bundesliga Player Of The Month Award:
Six Bundesliga players are nominated each month, having previously been assessed using objective criteria.
The basis will be the official DFL match data (including goals, assists, and tackles won) as collected for each Bundesliga match by the DFL subsidiary Sportec Solutions.
One of the six players nominated on the basis of match data will be voted ‘Player of the Month’.
The decision on the Player of the Month is made by:
- Team captains of the 18 Bundesliga clubs – 30% of the vote
- Expert panel of Bundesliga legends and media representatives – 30% of the vote
- Online voting by Bundesliga fans – 40% of the vote.
Votes are entered directly on the EA SPORTS FIFA 19 website. Fans will soon be able to vote for next month’s player on Bundesliga Player of the Month.
