Andi Weimann's career year in front of goal has been recognised by established football monthly FourFourTwo in their annual review of the "Top 50 players in the EFL", with the Austrian named alongside teammate Antoine Semenyo in the prestigious list.
Weimann has reached 19 goals for the season, out-stripping his previous best campaign by seven goals and is on pace to hit and likely better his target of 20 with six games of the campaign remaining. That has also been achieved after the 30-year-old sustained a devastating ACL injury last October which ruled him out for the rest of 2020/21.
Having won his place back in the Austria squad recently, earning his first caps for his country since 2015, Weimann is ranked No34 on the list, four places below Semenyo who is enjoying a similarly impressive campaign, albeit of a slightly different nature.
Since returning to the first-team in late November, after being dogged by knee issues at the start of the campaign, Semenyo has developed into a powerful central striker for the Robins and has six goals and eight assists in 25 appearances this term, attracting interest from the Premier League, Scotland and across Europe.
It's the first time City have had a player on the list since 2020, when Nahki Wells was ranked at No26, although the bulk of the reason for that was the sensational first-half to the 2019/20 campaign he enjoyed on loan at QPR before transferring to the Robins permanently from Burnley in January. Prior to that, the 2019 list included Adam Webster at No30 before his club record sale to Brighton & Hove Albion that summer.
Unsurprisingly, Championship leaders Fulham dominate the upper reaches of the rankings with three players inside the top five - Aleksandar Mitrovic, Harry Wilson and Fabio Carvalho - with former City defender Lloyd Kelly also inside the top 20, at No19 following his fine campaign with second-placed Bournemouth.
The list was compiled by FourFourTwo with votes from fans across all 72 EFL clubs with Championship supporters naming their top 10 best players, and those in League One and League Two naming their respective top fives, with points weightings then applied accordingly. There are 32 Championship players named, 11 in League One and seven from League Two.
FourFourTwo's top 50 EFL players
50. Joe Allen (Stoke)
49. Peter Clarke (Tranmere)
48. Matt Jay (Exeter)
47: Cameron Brannagan (Oxford United)
46. Emil Riis Jakobsen (PNE)
45: James McClean (Wigan Athletic)
44. Jonny Williams (Swindon)
43. Matty Stevens (Forest Green)
42. Elijah Adebayo (Luton)
41: Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday)
40: Will Keane (Wigan Athletic)
39: Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers)
38. Kane Wilson (Forest Green)
37. Billy Sharp (Sheff Utd)
36: Dan Barlaser (Rotherham United)
35: Dapo Afolyan (Bolton Wanderers)
34. Andi Weimann (Bristol City)
33. Jamille Matt (Forest Green)
32. Joel Piroe (Swansea)
31 Joe Rothwell (Blackburn)
30. Antoine Semenyo (Bristol City)
29. Sam Johnstone (WBA)
28. Dom Telford (Newport)
27: Cole Stockton (Morecambe)
26. Jed Wallace (Millwall)
25: Ross Stewart (Sunderland)
24. Isaiah Jones (Boro)
23. Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn)
22. Sorba Thomas (Huddersfield)
21: Michael Smith (Rotherham United)
20. Neeskens Kabano (Fulham)
19. Lloyd Kelly (Bournemouth)
18. Lewis O'Brien (Huddersfield)
17. Viktor Gyokeres (Coventry)
16. Keane Lewis-Potter (Hull)
15. Josh Bowler (Blackpool)
14: Scott Twine (MK Dons)
13. Morgan Gibbs-White (Sheff U)
12. Djed Spence (Forest)
11. Ilias Chair (QPR)
10th: Rob Dickie (QPR)
9th: Philip Billing (AFC Bournemouth)
8th: John Swift (Reading)
7th : Chris Willock (QPR)
6th: Dominic Solanke (AFC Bournemouth)
5th: Fabio Carvalho (Fulham)
4th: Brennan Johnson (Nottingham Forest)
3rd: Harry Wilson (Fulham)
2nd: Ben Brereton Diaz (Blackburn Rovers)
1st: Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham)
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