Women's Super League Golden Boot

Women's Super League Golden Boot
Khadija Shaw is the current holder
Awarded forLeading goalscorer in the Women's Super League, England's top women's football league
Presented byBarclays
First award2011
Currently held byJamaica Khadija Shaw (3rd win)
Highlights
Most winsJamaica Khadija Shaw
(3 wins)
Most team wins
Arsenal
Chelsea
(4 each)

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. Khadija Shaw, the most recent winner, has won the award for the third consecutive season, after scoring 21 goals in the 2025–26 season.

The record for the most goals in a season is 22 held by Rachel Daly for Aston Villa in the 2022–23 season, and Vivianne Miedema for Arsenal in the 2018–19 season. Miedema and Sam Kerr are the only players to have won the Golden Boot twice.

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
2012 Kim Little  Scotland Arsenal § 11 14 0.79
2013 Natasha Dowie  England Liverpool § 19 21 0.9
2014 Karen Carney  England Birmingham 8 16 0.5
2015 Beth Mead  England Sunderland 12 18 0.67
2016 Eniola Aluko  England Chelsea 9 16 0.56
Spring Series Fran Kirby  England Chelsea § 6 5 1.2
2017–18 Ellen White  England Birmingham City 15 14 1.07
2018–19 Vivianne Miedema  Netherlands Arsenal § 22 # 20 1.1
2019–20 Vivianne Miedema (2)  Netherlands Arsenal 16 14 1.14
2020–21 Sam Kerr  Australia Chelsea § 21 22 0.95
2021–22 Sam Kerr (2)  Australia Chelsea § 20 20 1
2022–23 Rachel Daly  England Aston Villa 22 # 22 1
2023–24 Khadija Shaw  Jamaica Manchester CIty 21 18 1.36
2024–25† Alessia Russo  England Arsenal 12 21 0.57
Khadija Shaw (2)  Jamaica Manchester CIty 12 14 0.86
2025–26 Khadija Shaw (3)  Jamaica Manchester CIty § 21 22 0.95

See also

References

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