Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall are finalists for the Golden Boy 2025.
Presented by Italian news outlet Tuttosport, the award honours the player determined by journalists to have been the most impressive under the age of 21 in a European nation's top division over a calendar year.
It is both Archie and Lucas' first time as finalists for the award with them named alongside 18 other young footballers, plus five wildcard choices, in a ceremony at Genoa's Badia di Sant'Andrea, Italy's oldest sports boarding school on Wednesday.
An international jury of 50 journalists from across the continent will now decide on the overall winner. That winner will be announced in a press conference next month before the award ceremony in Turin.
Both UEFA Europa League winners in 2025, Archie and Lucas have both enjoyed an incredible year.
Both arriving in north London in the summer of 2024, their debuts seasons saw them make 91 appearances combined as we enjoyed European glory.
Lucas completed a clean sweep of Player of the Season awards, becoming the first teenager since the legendary Glenn Hoddle (1976) to win such an award, as he produced a number of sensational performances after breaking into the side in the winter of 2024.
Sadly missing the Europa League Final through injury, the midfielder rebuilt his fitness over the summer and has since found another level to his game, continuing to impress in Lilywhite while he scored his first Premier League goal in our 3-0 win over West Ham United last month.
Slightly younger Archie played every minute of the League Phase of our triumphant Europa League campaign before making his Premier League breakthrough in December, 2024.
Thrust into action and having to spend most of his minutes deputising in the centre of our defence, the teenager adapted superbly and ultimately thrived amid the pressure.
Despite not playing in the quarter-finals or semi-finals of the Europa League, he did make a late cameo appearance in Bilbao as we defeated Manchester United 1-0 on that famous night at the San Mames.