A-League Women Golden Boot

This article is about the leading goalscorer award in the Australian premier women's association football league. For the equivalent award in the men's league of the same name, see A-League Men Golden Boot.

W-League Golden Boot
2024 winner Michelle Heyman
Awarded forThe leading goalscorer in a given W-League season.
CountryAustralia
Presented byFootball Australia
First awarded2008
Currently held byMichelle Heyman
Most awardsMichelle Heyman (3)

The W-League Golden Boot is an annual football (soccer) award presented to the leading goalscorer in the Australian A-League Women.

The W-League was established in 2008 as the top tier of women's football in Australia. The award is given to the top-scorer over the regular season (not including the finals series). The inaugural award was won by Leena Khamis of Sydney FC, who also scored the fewest to win with seven.

Michelle Heyman has won the award three times, while Kate Gill and Sam Kerr have each won the award twice. England's Jodie Taylor was the first non-Australian to have won the award.

Winners

Key
Player X Name of the player and X the number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
Games The number of W-League/A-League Women regular season games played by the winner that season[a]
Rate The winner's goals-to-games ratio that regular season
Golden Boot winners
Season Player Nationality Club Goals Games Rate Reference
2008–09 Leena Khamis  Australia Sydney FC 7 10 0.7 [1]
2009 Michelle Heyman  Australia Central Coast Mariners 11 10 1.1 [2]
2010–11 Kyah Simon  Australia Sydney FC 11 10 1.1 [3]
2011–12 Michelle Heyman (2)  Australia Canberra United 12 10 1.2 [4]
2012–13 Kate Gill  Australia Perth Glory 11 11 1.0 [5]
2013–14 Jodie Taylor  England Sydney FC 10 11 0.9 [6]
2014 Kate Gill (2)  Australia Perth Glory 12 12 1.0 [7]
2015–16 Larissa Crummer  Australia Melbourne City 11 10 1.1 [8]
2016–17 Ashleigh Sykes  Australia Canberra United 12 12 1.0 [9]
2017–18 Sam Kerr  Australia Perth Glory 13 9 1.4 [10]
2018–19 Sam Kerr (2)  Australia Perth Glory 13 11 1.2 [11]
2019–20 Morgan Andrews  United States Perth Glory 7 11 0.64 [12]
Natasha Dowie  England Melbourne Victory 12 0.58
Kristen Hamilton  United States Western Sydney Wanderers 12 0.58
Remy Siemsen  Australia Sydney FC 12 0.58
2020–21 Emily Gielnik  Australia Brisbane Roar 13 12 1.1 [13]
2021–22 Fiona Worts  England Adelaide United 13 14 1.0 [14]
2022–23 Hannah Keane  United States Western United 13 18 0.7 [15]
2023–24 Michelle Heyman (3)  Australia Canberra United 17 22 0.77 [16]
Michelle Heyman, top scorer for the 2009 A-League season

Awards won by club

Club Total
Perth Glory 5
Sydney FC 4
Canberra United 3
Adelaide United 1
Brisbane Roar 1
Central Coast Mariners 1
Melbourne City 1
Perth Glory 1
Western Sydney Wanderers 1
Western United 1

See also

Notes

  1. ^ This does not necessarily match the total number of games in a season.

References

  1. ^ "Khamis's Golden season spurs Sydney FC". Sydney FC. 8 January 2009. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  2. ^ Kasmarik, Morgan (10 December 2009). "W-League stars shine at awards". ABC Radio Grandstand. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  3. ^ "Kyah Simon named Julie Dolan Medal winner". Sydney FC. 8 March 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  4. ^ "A-League & W-League Awards Night". Football Federation Tasmania. 11 April 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  5. ^ "Rojas wins Johnny Warren Medal". The World Game. 16 April 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Lady Reds Barbieri Awarded Westfield W-League Goalkeeper of the Year". Football Federation South Australia. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  7. ^ "Gill looking to continue Glory's golden run". The Women's Game. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  8. ^ "Larissa Crummer claims Golden Boot". The Women's Game. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  9. ^ Tom Lowrey (31 January 2017). "Canberra United 'disappointed' at W-League semi-final move away from home turf to play before men's fixture". ABC News. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  10. ^ "Westfield W-League stats wrap: Kerr cruises to maiden Golden Boot". Football Federation Australia. 5 February 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  11. ^ "Matildas star Kerr driven towards Perth glory". SBS The World Game. 9 February 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  12. ^ Dejan Kalinic (12 March 2020). "Dowie Victory's first W-League Golden Boot winner". www.melbournevictory.com.au. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  13. ^ Lewis, Samantha (4 April 2021). "W-League completes unpredictable regular season with Sydney FC as minor premiers, setting up finals series". ABC News. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  14. ^ Lewis, Samantha (26 May 2022). "Fiona Worts and Jake Brimmer take out A-Leagues' top gongs at 2021/22 Dolan Warren Awards". ABC News.
  15. ^ "Players – A-League Women". Soccerway. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  16. ^ "PFA reveals player-voted 2023-24 A-League Women's Team of the Season". Professional Footballers Australia. 2 May 2024. Heyman's 17 goals for Canberra United saw her become the first player in A-League Women's history to win three Golden Boots