Nashville SC Midfielder Hany Mukhtar Voted MLS Player of the Week Presented by Continental Tire for Week 29
September 6, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) News Release
NEW YORK – Nashville SC midfielder Hany Mukhtar was voted the Major League Soccer Player of the Week presented by Continental Tire for the 29th week of the 2022 MLS season.
Mukhtar earned his second-straight MLS Player of the Week presented by Continental Tire honors after recording a brace in Nashville’s 3-0 victory over Austin FC on Saturday, September 3. Mukhtar has now scored five goals in his last two games and leads the league with 21 goals on the season. His 32 goal contributions (21 goals, 11 assists) are also the most in MLS and five more than the next-closest player (Austin FC’s Sebastián Driussi, 27). Mukhtar’s 32 goal contributions are already tied for the eighth most in a single season in league history. Additionally, the German midfielder has at least one goal contribution in 12 of his last 13 matches and multiple contributions in six of those.
With Nashville leading 1-0 in the 82nd minute, Mukhtar scored his first goal of the match when Alex Muyl played the ball into his path, and he buried a thunderous effort from a tight angle into the side-netting. The 2022 Landon Donovan MLS MVP candidate completed his brace in the first minute of stoppage time after Shaq Moore hit a low-driven pass to the open Mukhtar, who placed the ball past the diving Austin goalkeeper from short range for a 3-0 advantage.
Since the start of 2021, Mukhtar’s 37 goals lead all MLS players and his 23 assists rank as the third most behind the New England Revolution’s Carles Gil (31) and FC Cincinnati’s Luciano Acosta (26). The midfielder is the first player to produce at least 60 goal contributions in a two-year span since LAFC’s Carlos Vela (76) and the LA Galaxy’s Zlatan Ibrahimović (79) from 2018-19. His 60 goal contributions since the beginning of last season are 18 more than the next-closest player (Valentín Castellanos, 42). Of Nashville’s 103 goals over the past two seasons, the German has scored or assisted on 58.3 percent of those.
Mukhtar is the first player to win MLS Player of the Week presented by Continental Tire in consecutive weeks since Raúl Ruidíaz for Seattle Sounders FC in Weeks 19-20 of 2021. Since the start of 2016, he joins Ruidíaz, Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández, Vela, and Miguel Almirón as the only players to accomplish this feat. He is the lone player in MLS this season to earn the honor on three separate occasions. Mukhtar’s six Player of the Week awards since the start of 2020 are the most in MLS. Additionally, his six wins are tied for the third-most among active MLS players, behind Vela (eight) and Atlanta United FC’s Josef Martínez (seven).
Nashville will look to win five-consecutive games for the first time in club history when they host the LA Galaxy at GEODIS Park on Saturday, September 10 (3:30 p.m. ET, Univision / Twitter/ TUDN).
The MLS Player of the Week presented by Continental Tire is selected each week of the regular season through both media and fan voting in a process conducted by MLS Communications. A panel of journalists from the North American Soccer Reporters (NASR) comprises 75 percent of the vote, while a Twitter fan vote represents the remaining 25 percent of voting. NASR consists of members of print, television, radio, and online media.
2022 MLS Player of the Week
presented by Continental Tire Winners
Week
Player
Club
Week 1
Carlos Vela
Los Angeles Football Club
Week 2
Lewis Morgan
New York Red Bulls
Week 3
Dayne St. Clair
Minnesota United FC
Week 4
Jesús Ferreira
FC Dallas
Week 5
Javier “Chicharito” Hernández
LA Galaxy
Week 6
Leonardo Campana
Inter Miami CF
Week 7
Valentín “Taty” Castellanos
New York City FC
Week 8
Cristian Espinoza
San Jose Earthquakes
Week 9
Kamal Miller
CF Montréal
Week 10
Ronaldo Cisneros
Atlanta United FC
Week 11
Sebastián Blanco
Portland Timbers
Week 12
Jamiro Monteiro
San Jose Earthquakes
Week 13
Sebastián Ferreira
Houston Dynamo FC
Week 14 Dejan Joveljić
LA Galaxy
Week 15
Luquinhas
New York Red Bulls
Week 16
Hany Mukhtar
Nashville SC
Week 17
Brenner
FC Cincinnati
Week 18
Taxiarchis “Taxi” Fountas
D.C. United
Week 19
Julián Carranza
Philadelphia Union
Week 20
Jhon Durán
Chicago Fire FC
Week 21
Emanuel Reynoso
Minnesota United FC
Week 22
Michael Bradley
Toronto FC
Week 23
Gonzalo Higuaín
Inter Miami CF
Week 24
Gyasi Zardes
Colorado Rapids
Week 25
Alejandro Pozuelo
Inter Miami CF
Week 26
Julián Carranza
Philadelphia Union
Week 27
Dániel Gazdag
Philadelphia Union
Week 28
Hany Mukhtar
Nashville SC
Week 29
Hany Mukhtar
Nashville SC
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