Kansas City Current forward Temwa Chawinga has won the NWSL Golden Boot for the second year in a row – and in both years she has played in the NWSL.
She scored 15 goals and three assists across her 23 regular season appearances – two more goals and two more assists than second-placed Gotham FC’s Esther González.
Chawinga also won the Golden Boot last year, so she is now the second player in the league’s 13-year history to win the award multiple times, joining Sam Kerr who won it in three consecutive seasons from 2017 to 2019.
Temwa Chawinga: Her other records
In May, Chawinga became the fastest player to notch 25 regular season goals, doing so in six fewer matches than anyone else in what was her 34th appearance.
Six games later, she scored her 30th regular season goal – 11 fewer than any other player.
This season, she has become the first player to score in each of her first four regular season matches against two different clubs as well as the first player in the league to score in seven consecutive regular season away matches. Six of her 15 regular season goals were winning ones, equalling her own league record that she set last year.
She was named the NWSL Player of the Month in March and May, bringing her career player-of-the-month accolades up to five – the most in league history – and was nominated for the Ballon d’Or this year, finishing 17th in the rankings.
Kansas City Current: Their record-breaking season
Kansas City Current finished the regular season with a 2-1 win over San Diego Wave, coming back from a goal behind thanks to strikes from Debinha and Nichelle Prince.
It makes them the sixth team in NWSL history to go unbeaten at home in a regular season, and extends their own record for number of matches won (21) and most points gained (65) ahead of the play-offs for the NWSL Championship.
“I think it was the mindset of going into the second half that changed the most… We’re not going to give this game up no matter what,” said head coach Vlatko Andonovski. “I know it doesn’t mean anything for us for the standings or for the play-offs, but it’s important we go into play-offs with the right rhythm, and that’s what we wanted to do. We wanted to get a good rhythm in the second half to carry on into the play-offs.”
The NWSL play-offs take place next weekend.
