Manchester Metropolis striker Khadija Shaw has been named on an eight-strong shortlist for participant of the season on the 2025-26 Ladies’s Tremendous League Soccer Awards.
Shaw, 29, is about to win a 3rd consecutive WSL Golden Boot after scoring 19 instances in 21 appearances, along with her targets serving to Metropolis elevate their first league title since 2016.
She received the Soccer Writers’ Affiliation Ladies’s Footballer of the Yr award earlier in May.
Shaw is joined on the listing by team-mate Kerstin Casparij, who has 10 aim involvements from defence, in addition to Aston Villa’s Kirsty Hanson – the second-highest scorer within the league with one match to play, with 12 targets – and Arsenal ahead Alessia Russo.
Additionally shortlisted are Manchester United midfielder Jess Park, Chelsea striker Alyssa Thompson, Tottenham winger Olivia Holdt and Everton defender Ruby Mace.
Arsenal’s Olivia Smith, who joined the membership from Liverpool for a file charge of £1m final summer time, leads the nominees for WSL rising star. The Canada worldwide has scored 5 targets and registered three assists in 19 appearances.
Everton’s Ornella Vignola, who scored a hat-trick within the Merseyside derby on her WSL debut, additionally makes the shortlist, as does Chelsea’s 20-year-old defender Veerle Buurman.
Man United’s Anna Sandberg, Brighton teenager Emilie Homosexual, West Ham ahead Leila Wandeler, and Aston Villa midfielder Lucia Kendall full the nominees.
Hannah Hampton (Chelsea), Phallon Tullis-Joyce (Man United), and Ayaka Yamashita (Man Metropolis) are tied on seven clear sheets within the race for the WSL Golden Glove with one sport to play.
The winners throughout 17 totally different classes shall be confirmed on Monday 18 Could, with the ceremony additionally seeing Casey Stoney, Kerys Harrop and Matt Beard inducted into the WSL Corridor of Fame.
