Celtic attacker Daizen Maeda has won PFA Scotland's Player of the Year award.

As voted for by his fellow professionals, the 27-year-old has been named as the best player in the country for the 2024/25 season.

Across 48 appearances in all competitions, Maeda has scored 33 goals and assisted 10 in a stellar campaign.

Unfortunately for him, he wasn't able to add to his tally in Sunday's Glasgow derby at Ibrox.

Maeda raced through one-on-one with Liam Kelly in the dying embers, only to see his effort saved.

Manager Brendan Rodgers let the attacker away with it: "Yeah, we have to give him a bit of leeway," he said post-match.

"He'd been in Japan all week; he had his first training day with us yesterday. He flew expecting his wife to have their third child, and she didn't have it, so we had to come back and then come into a game here at Ibrox.

"It's one of those tough ones, you look at it and you analyse it, he's through in goal. What can he do? He can toe poke it, can he get around the keeper? But in fairness to Liam (Kelly), he's done well, he's had a good spread on it, and I'm not sure Daizen can get it square for us to finish.

"But it just shows you we kept going right to the very end, the will was there to score, to fight, to run, and yeah, it was pleasing, especially the second half."