Very many congratulations indeed to Jack Marriott, who’s been voted as TTE’s 2025/26 player of the season!
In fact, he’s essentially completed the double, having also taken the club’s award. That’s not the case every year though – last season for example, Joel Pereira pulled off a surprise TTE win despite Tyler Bindon getting the official award.
You can see the full set of winners, going back to 2015/16, just below.
Marriott was a comfortable winner in the end. Going by our weighted voting system (six
points for a first-placed vote, five points for a second-placed vote and so on), he earned 583 points, finishing well ahead of second-placed Lewis Wing (493).
Completing an exact duplication of the club’s top three, Joel Pereira finished third, with 388 points. Derrick Williams wasn’t a million miles from a podium finish (fourth, 337 points), with Kamari Doyle (fifth, 280 points) and Paudie O’Connor (sixth, 250 points) rounding out the shortlist.
Here’s how it all breaks down visually:
Or if you’d prefer to see the unweighted voting, take a look at this chart below:
All in all, it’s a very well deserved win for Marriott, whose goalscoring form in 2025/26 was electric. He scored an impressive total of 17 goals in just 26 matches, or 1,864 minutes, meaning he found the net just over once for each full game played (a goal every 109 minutes).
He really was the talisman of this team in 2025/26. Despite not being given all that many opportunities in front of goal each game, he was ruthless with those chances and was a huge part of Reading pushing up the table under Leam Richardson.
And the fans loved him for it. No one in the squad had their name sung by the SCL faithful as unanimously, as passionately, as Marriott did. That wasn’t just down to his skill as a finisher – it’s also testament to his pure likability too.
Hopefully he can now follow this up with an equally impressive 2026/27 campaign. That’s a tall order though – such a purple patch was always going to be difficult to maintain in the long run, even before you consider Marriott’s injury record, which may not get any better, given he’ll be 32 in September.
Still, Reading are lucky to have such a good centre-forward, and I’m looking forward to seeing him next season.
Congrats Jack!
