A-League Women Young Footballer of the Year

This article is about the best young player 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 Young Footballer of the Year.

The A-League Women Young Footballer of the Year is an annual association football award presented to a player in the Australian A-League Women.

A-League Women Young Footballer of the Year
Awarded for	The top young player in a given A-League Women season.
Country	Australia
Presented by	Football Federation Australia
First award	2008
Currently held by	Indiana Dos Santos
Most wins	Ellie Carpenter (3) Steph Catley (2)

The W-League was established in 2008 as the top tier of women's football in Australia. The award is given to a top-performing young player over the regular season (not including the finals series). The inaugural award was shared by Elise Kellond-Knight of Brisbane Roar and Ellyse Perry of Canberra United.

Ellie Carpenter has won the award three times. Steph Catley won the award twice.

Winners

Ellie Carpenter has won the award three consecutive times.

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)
§	Denotes the club were W-League Champions in the same season
†	Indicates multiple award winners in the same season

Young Footballer of the Year winners

Season	Player	Nationality	Club	Reference
2008–09 †	Elise Kellond-Knight	Australia	Sydney FC	[1]
	Ellyse Perry	Australia	Sydney FC
2010–11	Kyah Simon	Australia	Sydney FC§	[2]
2011–12	Ashley Brown	Australia	Sydney FC	[3]
2012–13	Steph Catley	Australia	Melbourne Victory	[4]
2013–14	Steph Catley (2)	Australia	Melbourne Victory	[5]
2014	Amy Harrison	Australia	Sydney FC	[6]
2015–16	Larissa Crummer	Australia	Melbourne City§	[7]
2016–17	Remy Siemsen	Australia	Sydney FC	[8]
2017–18	Ellie Carpenter	Australia	Canberra United FC	[9]
2018–19	Ellie Carpenter (2)	Australia	Canberra United FC	[10]
2019–20	Ellie Carpenter (3)	Australia	Melbourne City	[11]
2020–21	Kyra Cooney-Cross	Australia	Melbourne Victory§	[12]
2021–22	Holly McNamara	Australia	Melbourne City	[13]
2022–23	Sarah Hunter	Australia	Sydney FC§	[14]
2023–24	Daniela Galic	Australia	Melbourne City	[15]
2024–25	Indiana Dos Santos	Australia	Sydney FC	[16]

See also

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

• List of sports awards honoring women
• W-League Golden Boot
• W-League records and statistics
• Julie Dolan Medal