DBL Defensive Player of the Year
# DBL Defensive Player of the Year

Dutch Basketball League awards, honours, and leaders :

Individual awards :

Most Valuable Player

Coach of the Year

Defensive Player of the Year

MVP Under 23

Sixth Man of the Year

Playoffs MVP

Statistical Player of the Year

Most Improved Player

Rookie of the Year

Kees Akerboom Trophy :

Honors :

All-DBL Team

All-Rookie Team

All-Defense Team :

Statistical leaders :

Scoring

Assists

Blocks

Rebounding

Steals :

vte :

The Dutch Basketball League Best Defender of the Year is an award that is yearly given to the best defensive player in the DBL, the highest professional basketball league in the Netherlands. The award is handed out after the regular season since 2013. The award is handed out by the FEB (Federatie Eredivisie Basketbal).

## Winners

Key :

| Player (X) | Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) |
| - | - |
| Nationality | Nationality as registered by FIBA, player may hold more nationalities |
| † | Indicates multiple award winners in the same season |
| ‡ | Denotes the club were DBL champions in the same season |

DBL Defensive Players of the Year :

| Season | Player | Position | Nationality | Team |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2012–13 | Jason Dourisseau | Forward | United States | GasTerra Flames |
| 2013–14 | Jason Dourisseau (2) | Forward | United States | GasTerra $Flames^‡$ |
| 2014–15 | Mohamed Kherrazi | Forward | Netherlands | ZZ Leiden |
| 2015–16 | Mohamed Kherrazi (2) | Forward | Netherlands | ZZ Leiden |
| 2016–17 | J.T. Tiller | Guard | United States | Landstede |
| 2017–18 | Sean Cunningham | Guard | Netherlands | $Donar^‡$ |
| 2018–19 | Mohamed Kherrazi (3) | Forward | Netherlands | ZZ Leiden |
| 2020–21 | Worthy de Jong | Guard | Netherlands | ZZ Leiden |

## Awards won by nationality

| Country | Total |
| - | - |
| Netherlands | 5 |
| United States | 3 |

## Awards won by club

| Country | Total |
| - | - |
| ZZ Leiden | 4 |
| Donar | 3 |
| Landstede | 2 |

* ↑ Sean Cunningham, born in Los Angeles, California, also owns the American nationality.
* ↑ Previously also known as "GasTerra Flames".
