Yan Diomande named December Rookie of the Month!
December 2025 winner
Diomande made two starts in December before being called up to represent Ivory Coast at the Africa Cup of Nations. The Leipzig winger was already in blistering form when he delivered one of the most impressive individual performances of the season on Matchday 13, scoring a sensational hat-trick in a 6-0 drubbing of Eintracht Frankfurt.
At the age of just 19 years and 22 days, the Leipzig No.49 became the second-youngest player in Bundesliga history to score three goals in one game after Walter Bechthold (Frankfurt, aged 18, 1965). The summer signing from CD Leganés also made history as just the third Leipzig player to hit a Bundesliga hat-trick after club record goalscorer Timo Werner and club record appearance-maker Yussuf Poulsen.
League-wide, only Bayern Munich’s Harry Kane scored more goals in December than Diomande, who also stood out among players in his position with 88 passes and a 57 percent success rate for challenges won. Germany – who have been drawn alongside Ivory Coast in the FIFA 2026 World Cup group stage – have been warned.
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