A-League Women 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.

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.

A-League Women Young Footballer of the Year
Awarded forThe top young player in a given A-League Women season.
CountryAustralia
Presented byFootball Federation Australia
First awarded2008
Currently held byDaniela Galic
Most awardsEllie 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
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  AustraliaSydney FC[1]
Ellyse Perry  AustraliaSydney 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)  AustraliaCanberra United FC [10]
2019–20 Ellie Carpenter (3)  AustraliaMelbourne City [11]
2020–21 Kyra Cooney-Cross  Australia Melbourne Victory§ [12]
2021–22 Holly McNamara  AustraliaMelbourne City [13]
2022–23 Sarah Hunter  AustraliaSydney FC§ [14]
2023–24 Daniela Galic  AustraliaMelbourne City [15]


See also

Notes

    References
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