Mukhtar Will Be Formally Presented at the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame 2023 Banquet
Nashville Soccer Club in conjunction with the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame have announced that reigning 2022 Landon Donovan MLS MVP Hany Mukhtar has been named Tennessee’s Professional Player of the Year by the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.
Mukhtar became the first Nashville SC player to win the 2022 Landon Donovan MLS MVP and the MLS Golden Boot.
The German was named the 2022 Landon Donovan MLS MVP after receiving 48.03 percent of the total votes, including 78 percent of the media vote. He led the league with 34 goal contributions (23 goals, 11 assists), which tied for the fifth-most in a single MLS season. The attacker accounted for 44.2 percent of Nashville’s goals (23 of 52) in 2022, which was the highest percentage in MLS.
Mukhtar joins a list of high-profile Tennesseans who have earned achievements this past year and will be recognized at the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame Banquet on July 22 at the Omni Nashville Downtown.
Full information on all of the 2023 Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame Honorees can be found here.
This season, Mukhtar is the team leader in goal contributions with eight and has been named to the MLS Team of the Matchday three times, including this past week after his performance in the 3-1 victory over rival Atlanta United FC.
Mukhtar and Nashville SC will be in action tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. CT against Chicago Fire FC from GEODIS Park. Limited tickets are available at www.NashvilleSC.com/Tickets.
Nashville SC joined Major League Soccer on Feb. 29, 2020, in front of the largest attendance ever recorded for a soccer match in the State of Tennessee. In its inaugural MLS season, Nashville SC defeated expectations by becoming the second MLS expansion side to win and advance to the Conference Semifinals in the 2020 Audi MLS Cup Playoffs. Nashville SC returned to the 2021 Audi MLS Cup Playoffs in its sophomore season after becoming just the seventh team in MLS history to go unbeaten at home in a season. Nashville SC inaugurated GEODIS Park, the largest soccer-specific stadium in the United States and Canada, in front of a 30,109-sellout crowd on May 1, 2022. For more information, visit NashvilleSC.com and follow the club at @NashvilleSC on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Spotify.
