Will Chiesa receive a Premier League title medal with Liverpool? | OneFootball

Liverpool are closing in on being mathematically confirmed as the Premier League champions for 2024-25, and a change in rules means that Federico Chiesa is still likely to receive a winners’ medal, even though he has only appeared in four league matches this season.

Liverpool require one point from their Premier League match at home against 16th-placed Tottenham Hotspur to mathematically win the league title for 2024-25.

Assuming that Liverpool are crowned champions, it will be their 20th title in the English top-flight, but only their second since the introduction of the Premier League in 1992. Their last league win came under Jurgen Klopp in 2019-20, and in 1989-90 before then.

Will Chiesa get a Premier League winners’ medal?

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – JANUARY 11: Federico Chiesa of Liverpool celebrates scoring his sides 4th goal during the Emirates FA Cup Third Round match between Liverpool and Accrington Stanley at Anfield on January 11, 2025 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Jan Kruger/Getty Images)

Liverpool made just one signing over the course of the 2024-25 season: That of Federico Chiesa from Juventus for a fee of €15m at the end of the summer transfer window.

As things stand, Chiesa has made four Premier League appearances this term, all of which have come as a substitute.

Under previous rules, players had to have made a minimum of 10 league appearances to be eligible for a winners’ medal. That was reduced to five appearances in 2011.

Now, teams receive 40 medals to distribute among their squad and staff. All players with five or more Premier League appearances must receive a medal, but after that, it is up to the club to decide who else gets one, whether that be players with fewer than five appearances, or to valued members of the club staff.

That means that Chiesa is still likely to receive a medal for multiple reasons. Firstly, he only requires one more appearance from the last five matches of the season to be guaranteed a medal.

Secondly, even if Chiesa does not get on the pitch again before the end of the season, Liverpool only have 21 players with five or more Premier League appearances in the 2024-25 season, which means the club will still have 19 spare medals to distribute.