Women's Super League Golden Boot

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]

Women’s Super League Golden Boot
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)

Winners

Key

Player (X)	Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
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

WSL Golden Boot winners

Season	Player	Nationality	Club	Goals	Games	Rate	Ref(s)
2011	Rachel Williams	England	Birmingham	14	14	1	[4]
2012	Kim Little	Scotland	Arsenal §	11	14	0.79	[5]
2013	Natasha Dowie	England	Liverpool §	19	21	0.9	[6]
2014	Karen Carney	England	Birmingham	8	16	0.5	[7][8]
2015	Beth Mead	England	Sunderland	12	18	0.67	[9]
2016	Eniola Aluko	England	Chelsea	9	16	0.56	[10][11][12]
Spring Series	Fran Kirby	England	Chelsea §	6	5	1.2	[13][14]
2017–18	Ellen White	England	Birmingham City	15	14	1.07	[15][16]
2018–19	Vivianne Miedema	Netherlands	Arsenal §	22 #	20	1.1	[2][17]
2019–20	Vivianne Miedema (2)	Netherlands	Arsenal	16	14	1.14	[18][17]
2020–21	Sam Kerr	Australia	Chelsea §	21	22	0.95	[19]
2021–22	Sam Kerr (2)	Australia	Chelsea §	20	20	1
2022–23	Rachel Daly	England	Aston Villa	22 #	22	1	[20]
2023–24	Khadija Shaw	Jamaica	Manchester CIty	21	18	1.36	[1]

See also

• Women's Super League Player of the Season
• Women's Super League Golden Glove

• 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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