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 for	The leading goalscorer in a given W-League season.
Country	Australia
Presented by	Football Australia
First award	2008
Currently held by	Holly McNamara
Most wins	Michelle 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
	Remy Siemsen	Australia	Sydney FC
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	0.8	[16]
2024–25	Holly McNamara	Australia	Melbourne City	15	18	0.8	[17]

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
Melbourne City	2
Adelaide United	1
Brisbane Roar	1
Central Coast Mariners	1
Perth Glory	1
Western Sydney Wanderers	1
Western United	1

See also

• Australia portal
• soccer portal
• Women's association football portal

• List of sports awards honoring women
• A-League Women records and statistics
• Julie Dolan Medal

Notes

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

References

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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. Archived from the original on 30 September 2021. 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
17. Pisani, Sacha (21 April 2025). "Melbourne City superstar Holly McNamara wins Ninja A-League Golden Boot". A-Leagues. Retrieved 21 April 2025.