Player of the Month Prediction — January 2026 (Bundesliga)

Hello and welcome to Bundesliga Player of the Month Predictions, been a bit of a crazy month, a lot of great results and a lot of good candidates for POTM.

Let’s get straight to business with my main candidate: Olise scored 3 goals and got 7 assists in 5 games, this is a bit insane stat to proceed, considering Bayern lost 1 game and drew another, but yeah, Olise having 1 for an ages season. 10 contributions might guarantee him another POTM, but we’ll see. He had 87 POTM and this one should be 89 or so. We should skip +1 upgrade on a case like this and go straight to 89. Should be kinda expensive, considering pricing of his other SBCs.

Next up, we’re having Andrej Kramaric and mighty Hoffenheim that won 5 games in a row and looks like ain’t stopping soon. Kramaric got 5 goals and 1 assist this month, with scoring 3 goals in 1 game, 2 goals in other game, 1 assist in 3rd game. Miss those times when we had Kramaric POTM yearly, so this might be the return of that. Kramaric is like an old leader and mentor of this young group and I think this month he’ll be recognized. His potential POTM would be around 89 rating and shouldn’t be more than 100k.

Then we have Stuttgart who are in insane form too, they are chasing UCL spots and looking good this season. Denis Undav continues to perform well and scoring. He got 3 goals and 3 assists this month and this should be enough for nominee. Undav has 84 rated IF and his potential POTM would be 87-88 rated card with some nice attacking stats, but overall it shouldn’t be more than 80k IMO.

Mainz trying their hardest to survive and after manager change they really have a good chance of doing that. Nadeem Amiri found form and scored 4 goals and got 1 assist this month. They won 3 games and lost only 1 this month and gained 10 points and now sitting right in Play-off spot. Amiri went crazy, reminded me of a last season and should be 100% nominated. His NIF is 81 rated card, so this potential POTM is 87-88 rated card for cheaps, but might be very decent EVO potential, if they give him right PS.

Speaking about relegation candidates – Augsburg also had a good month and won few games, drew and lost not as many. Climbed few spots and that’s because Claude-Maurice had great month with 2 goals and 2 assists. Highlight of the month would be a win vs Bayern and Claude-Maurice got 2 assists there. Potential POTM would be 87 rated, due to his NIF being only 77 rated card.

And last 2 spots are for defenders. Both had similar stats, but in different environments. Nico Shlotterbeck and Luka Vuskovic had 2 goals and 2 CS this month. Couldn’t find other player from BVB that was consistent over all 5 wins this month, was weird looking at them, as everyone performed differently in different games. Vuskovic had another crazy month, scored vs Bayern, kept 2 CS. Yeah, HSV didn’t win any games, but lost only 1 (and not that fairly). Both can be cool POTMs. Schlotti – 89 rated, Luka – 87 rated card.

I think, if we’re going by the stats – Olise clear winner. If we go by heart and impact then it’ll be tighter race between Olise, Kramaric and Amiri. We’ll see who will get nominated, but I think it’ll be close one this time.