NWSL Golden Boot

The NWSL Golden Boot is awarded annually to the highest goal scorer in the regular season of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).

2024 winner Temwa Chawinga

Lauren Holiday (2013) won the first Golden Boot in the NWSL's inaugural season. Temwa Chawinga holds the record for most goals scored in a season with 20 in 2024.^[1][2] Sam Kerr is the only player to win Golden Boot more than once (2017–2019).

Winners

Season	Player	Nationality	Club	Goals	Games	Rate	Ref.
2013	Lauren Holiday	United States	FC Kansas City	12	18	0.67	[3]
2014	Kim Little	Scotland	Seattle Reign FC	16	23	0.70	[4]
2015	Crystal Dunn	United States	Washington Spirit	15	20	0.75	[5]
2016	Lynn Williams[a]	United States	Western New York Flash	11	19	0.58	[6]
2017	Sam Kerr	Australia	Sky Blue FC	17	22	0.77	[7]
2018	Sam Kerr (2)	Australia	Chicago Red Stars	16	19	0.84	[8]
2019	Sam Kerr (3)	Australia	Chicago Red Stars	18	21	0.86	[9]
2020	2020 regular season cancelled due COVID-19 pandemic						[10]
2021	Ashley Hatch	United States	Washington Spirit	10	20	0.50	[11]
2022	Alex Morgan	United States	San Diego Wave FC	15	17	0.88	[12]
2023	Sophia Smith	United States	Portland Thorns FC	11	17	0.65	[13]
2024	Temwa Chawinga	Malawi	Kansas City Current	20	25	0.80	[2]

See also

• Women's association football portal
• Association football portal
• Sports portal

• List of sports awards honoring women
• NWSL awards
• NWSL Players' Awards
• NWSL records and statistics
• Women's soccer in the United States

Notes

1. Kealia Ohai also scored 11 goals in 2016, but Williams won the tiebreaker with five assists to Ohai's four.