The champions are given 40 commemorative medals made of silver, which are 2.25in (5.7cm) in diameter.

They can be distributed to the manager, players and officials, as the club see fit, as long as every player who has made at least five Premier League appearances during the title-winning season gets one.

Additional medals may only be presented with the consent of the Premier League Board, and that will only be granted if more than 39 players have made at least five PL appearances during the campaign.

Source PL website, last year.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So, if you made at least 5 appearances, you get a medal automatically. If you didn't make 5 appearances, you have to wait until all the players who did get their medal. If there are any left over at that point, the club can decide to give you one.

Apparently Dowman, Nwaneri and Norgaard automatically get medals because they had 5, 6 and 6 sub appearances, respectively. Nobody else made more than 1 but fewer than 5 sub appearances. There are a total of 24 players who get medals this way, leaving 16 extra medals. I guess Kepa will get one, even though he didn't make any PL appearances.

My guess is that the rest will go to coaches / staff. There are other players who played a bit this season in other competitions, players like Marli Salmon, Andre Harrington-Annous, etc. But, I don't think they contributed enough to the PL victory compared to say Nicolas Jover. Maybe Per Mertesacker? I wonder if anybody who isn't at the club anymore will get one. Edu? Carlos Cuesta? Maybe an outside shot for an important former player like Granit Xhaka?

[–] Astrealix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

They can also request more medals, iirc. I assume they might have to pay for some of it if it's too egregious but they might do it anyway given... yknow... 22 years.

Wrighty and Wenger need one each. Give an honorary one to Rocky if Wrighty won't take it