The awards will be presented at the Ramside Hall Hotel on Sunday, 2nd March on an evening which will also feature the presentation of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation/NEFWA personality of the year award which has been won in the past by the likes of Alan Shearer, Chris Kamara, Jill Scott and current holder Gary Bennett.
Funds will be raised for Sir Bobby's foundation on the night when the Bob Cass and John Fotheringham awards will also be presented for 'outstanding services to North East football' to two unsuspecting recipients.
Sweden international Isak is the 45th winner the senior men's award and was the unanimous choice of the region's football writers, ahead of Newcastle team-mate Anthony Gordon in second and Middlesbrough's Emmanuel Latte Lath in third.
He succeeds team-mate Kieran Trippier and is the fourth Newcastle player in a row to win the award since Middlesbrough captain Jonny Howson picked it up in 2020.
Isak has been prolific for Eddie Howe since becoming Newcastle's club record signing from Real Sociedad in summer 2022, scoring 44 Premier League goals so far, and in total scored 28 goals in the calendar year.
He was named the Premier League's player of the month for December and won the Guinness goal of the month for his strike against Liverpool.
Isak started his career at local club AIK and became their youngest goalscorer at the age of 16, moving to Borussia Dortmund in 2017 before joining Willem II on loan and scoring 13 goals in 16 games.
He spent three years with Real Sociedad from 2019, scoring nearly 50 goals, impressed at Euro 2020, and moved to St. James' Park later that year.
Twenty-year-old Newcastle United Women midfielder Boddy played a major part in Becky Langley's side's promotion to the Women's Championship last season, while she also earned his first England Under-23 cap.
Teesside-born Boddy started playing boys' football with Marton at the age of four before moving into the girls' game with Teesside Girls RTC (Regional Talent Club) and then Middlesbrough Women at the age of 16.
She moved to Leicester Women, where she made her Women's Super League debut just a few weeks after her 18th birthday before joined Bristol City Women and then moving to Newcastle in summer 2023, helping the club to promotion to the Women's Championship last season.
Boddy becomes the second winner of the women's young player award, following Sunderland's Katy Watson who was the inaugural winner last year.
The winners of the men's young player and the women's senior player of the year awards will be announced on Thursday.
Tickets for the North East Football Writers' Association annual dinner at the Ramside Hall Hotel and Spa in Durham are available from [email protected].
