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PFA team of year: Mesut Ozil misses out as Leicester and Tottenham dominate

Mesut Ozil of Arsenal in action during the Barclays Premier League match between Arsenal and Swansea City at Emirates Stadium on March 2, 2016
Image: Mesut Ozil is one of six nominees for the PFA Player of the Year award

Leicester and Tottenham account for eight players in the Professional Footballers' Association's team of the season, but there is no room for Arsenal's Mesut Ozil.

Ozil is among six nominees to win the individual award on Sunday evening, but Hector Bellerin is the only Arsenal player to make a line-up decided by the votes of Premier League players.

Manchester United's David de Gea is named in goal while Dimitri Payet - also up for the players' award - is also included, but the line-up is otherwise made of players from the Premier League's top two.

Leicester are represented by captain Wes Morgan and their three individual nominees - Jamie Vardy, Riyad Mahrez and N'Golo Kante, while Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Danny Rose and Toby Alderweireld are Spurs' four inclusions.

The teams for the other three divisions have also been announced, and for the first time in the vote's history there was a tie for one position.

Middlesbrough's Daniel Ayala and Michael Dawson of Hull received the same number of nominations and share a place in the Championship side.

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The PFA, which had planned to reveal the Teams of the Year on Sunday at its awards dinner, was forced to release the information on Thursday afternoon after the Premier League team was leaked in a photograph on social media.

A statement on the organisation's website read: "The PFA is disappointed that a member of the public has chosen to deliberately leak our representative teams from the official brochure of the Awards Evening.

"As a matter of urgency, we are seeking a detailed explanation from the brochure printers as to how they were able to secure a copy of the publication.

"The unveiling of  the PFA representative teams is eagerly awaited by our members and football fans throughout the country and we hope that the unfortunate leak does not affect the wide-ranging debate and discussion which accompanies their normal release on the day of the event."

The individual player awards will be revealed on Sunday evening.

Image: Here's the team that was chosen.

PFA teams of the season

Premier League: David de Gea (Man Utd); Hector Bellerin (Arsenal), Wes Morgan (Leicester), Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham), Danny Rose (Tottenham); Riyad Mahrez (Leicester), Dele Alli (Tottenham), N'Golo Kante (Leicester), Dimitri Payet (West Ham); Jamie Vardy (Leicester), Harry Kane (Tottenham).

Championship: Tom Heaton (Burnley); Bruno (Brighton), Daniel Ayala/Michael Dawson (Middlesbrough/Hull), Michael Keane (Burnley), George Friend (Middlesbrough); Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough), Alan Judge (Brentford), Joey Barton (Burnley), Barry Bannan (Sheff Wed), Andre Gray (Burnley), Ross McCormack (Fulham).

League One: Jon McLaughlin (Burton); Reece Wabara (Wigan), John Egan (Gillingham), Craig Morgan (Wigan), Rico Henry (Walsall); Yanic Wildschut (Wigan), Bradley Dack (Gillingham), Romaine Sawyers (Walsall), Mark Duffy (Burton); Will Grigg (Wigan), Adam Armstrong (Coventry).

League Two: Adam Smith (Northampton); George Baldock (Oxford), Curtis Nelson (Plymouth), Aaron Pierre (Wycombe), Joe Jacobson (Wycombe); Ricky Holmes (Northampton), John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton), Matt Crooks (Accrington), Kemar Roofe (Oxford); Jay Simpson (Leyton Orient), Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers).

WSL: Hedvig Lindahl (Chelsea); Lucy Bronze (Man City), Casey Stoney (Arsenal), Niamh Fahey (Chelsea), Alex Greenwood (Notts County, now Liverpool); Jo So-yun (Chelsea), Vicky Losada (Arsenal), Jill Scott (Man City), Isobel Christiansen (Chelsea); Beth Mead (Sunderland), Danielle Carter (Arsenal).

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