Bundesliga - Werder Bremen playmaker Diego has won the Bundesliga Player of the Season award organised by Kicker magazine.

The prize is given based on the votes of players in Germany, of which Diego won slightly more than 50 percent.

The 22-year-old scored 13 league goals - making him the club's joint top scorer with Miroslav Klose - and helped Bremen mount a serious, but ultimately unsuccessful, championship bid.

Diego joined the club from Porto last summer, and has produced a string of excellent performances to see him linked with Real Madrid and Chelsea among other top clubs.

Bochum striker Theofanis Gekas came in second with 10.7 percent having rattled in 20 goals, while Stuttgart's Mario Gomez, Leverkusen captain Bernd Schneider and Pavel Pardo - also of champions Stuttgart - completed the top five.

Gomez won the Young Player of the Season award after breaking into the full Germany squad, with Schalke goalkeeper Manuel Neuer losing a close battle by 14.8 percent to 13.7.