Women's Super League Golden Boot
Women’s Super League Golden Boot | |
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![]() Khadija Shaw is the current holder of the award. | |
Awarded for | Leading goalscorer in the Women's Super League, England's top women's football league |
Presented by | Barclays |
First awarded | 2011 |
Currently held by | Khadija Shaw |
Most awards | Vivianne Miedema and Sam Kerr (2) |
The Women's Super League Golden Boot is an annual association football award presented to the leading goalscorer in Women's Super League (WSL). The award is sponsored by Barclays. The most recent winner is Khadija Shaw who scored 21 goals in 18 games for Manchester City in the 2023–24 season.[1] Vivianne Miedema and Sam Kerr are the only players to win the Golden Boot multiple times having both won it twice.[2] Rachel Daly for Aston Villa in the 2022–23 season,[3] and Miedema for Arsenal in the 2018–19 season, hold the record for the most goals in a season with 22.[2]
Winners
[edit]Player (X) | Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) |
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Games | The number of WSL games played by the winner that season |
Rate | The winner's goals-to-games ratio that season |
† | Indicates multiple award winners in the same season |
§ | Denotes the club were WSL champions in the same season |
# | WSL record |
Season | Player | Nationality | Club | Goals | Games | Rate | Ref(s) |
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2011 | Rachel Williams | ![]() | Birmingham | 14 | 14 | 1 | [4] |
2012 | Kim Little | ![]() | Arsenal § | 11 | 14 | 0.79 | [5] |
2013 | Natasha Dowie | ![]() | Liverpool § | 19 | 21 | 0.9 | [6] |
2014 | Karen Carney | ![]() | Birmingham | 8 | 16 | 0.5 | [7][8] |
2015 | Beth Mead | ![]() | Sunderland | 12 | 18 | 0.67 | [9] |
2016 | Eniola Aluko | ![]() | Chelsea | 9 | 16 | 0.56 | [10][11][12] |
Spring Series | Fran Kirby | ![]() | Chelsea § | 6 | 5 | 1.2 | [13][14] |
2017–18 | Ellen White | ![]() | Birmingham City | 15 | 14 | 1.07 | [15][16] |
2018–19 | Vivianne Miedema | ![]() | Arsenal § | 22 # | 20 | 1.1 | [2][17] |
2019–20 | Vivianne Miedema (2) | ![]() | Arsenal | 16 | 14 | 1.14 | [18][17] |
2020–21 | Sam Kerr | ![]() | Chelsea § | 21 | 22 | 0.95 | [19] |
2021–22 | Sam Kerr (2) | ![]() | Chelsea § | 20 | 20 | 1 | |
2022–23 | Rachel Daly | ![]() | Aston Villa | 22 # | 22 | 1 | [20] |
2023–24 | Khadija Shaw | ![]() | Manchester CIty | 21 | 18 | 1.36 | [1] |
See also
[edit]- The FA Women's Football Awards
- List of sports awards honoring women
- Premier League Golden Boot – the equivalent award in men's football
References
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- ^ "E. Aluko". Soccerway. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ^ "Aluko wins Golden Boot with nine goals in FAWSL 2016 season". Professional Footballers' Association. 8 November 2016. Archived from the original on 8 October 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ^ "F. Kirby". Soccerway. Archived from the original on 9 October 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ "Kirby Wins WSL Golden Boot". SheKicks.net. 6 June 2017. Archived from the original on 9 October 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
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- ^ "E. White". Soccerway. Archived from the original on 5 May 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ a b "V. Miedema". Soccerway. Archived from the original on 5 May 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ "Blues take Barclays' honours". The Football Association. Archived from the original on 5 May 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ "Chelsea Women 5–0 Reading Women". BBC Sport. 9 May 2021. Archived from the original on 9 May 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ "WSL round-up: Rachel Daly equals goal record in Aston Villa win at Arsenal". Sky Sports. Retrieved 27 May 2023.