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W-League Golden Glove
Awarded forThe top goalkeeper in a given W-League season.
CountryAustralia
Presented by Football Federation Australia
First awarded2008
Currently held by Lydia Williams
Most awards Lydia Williams (5)

The W-League Golden Glove is an annual football (soccer) award presented to the top goalkeeper in the Australian W-League.

The W-League was established in 2008 as the top tier of women's football in Australia. The award is given to the top goalkeeper over the regular season (not including the finals series). The inaugural award was won by Melissa Barbieri of Melbourne Victory FC.

Lydia Williams has won the award five times. Mackenzie Arnold has won the award three times and Melissa Barbieri has won twice.

Winners

Key
Goalkeeper 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 regular season games played by the winner that season [A]
GAA The winner's goals against average (GAA) ratio that regular season
§ Denotes the club were W-League Champions in the same season
† Indicates multiple award winners in the same season
Year Goalkeeper Club Reference
2008–09 Melissa Barbieri Melbourne Victory [1]
2009 Jillian Loyden Central Coast Mariners [2]
2010–11 Lydia Williams Canberra United [3]
2011–12 Lydia Williams 2 Canberra United [4]
2012–13 Mackenzie Arnold Canberra United [5]
2013–14 Melissa Barbieri 2 Adelaide United [6]
2014 Mackenzie Arnold 2 Perth Glory [7]
2015–16 Kaitlyn Savage Adelaide United [8]
2016–17 Lydia Williams 3 Melbourne City [9]
2017–18 Mackenzie Arnold 3 Brisbane Roar [10]
2018–19 Aubrey Bledsoe Sydney FC [11]
Lydia Williams 4 Melbourne City [11]
2019–20 Lydia Williams 5 Melbourne City [12]
2020–21 Teagan Micah Melbourne City [13]
2021–22 Casey Dumont Melbourne Victory [14]
2022–23 Hillary Beall Western United [15]

Awards won by club

Club Total
Melbourne City 4
Canberra United 3
Adelaide United 2
Melbourne Victory 2
Brisbane Roar 1
Central Coast Mariners 1
Perth Glory 1
Sydney FC 1
Western United 1

See also

Notes

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

References

  1. ^ "Hall of Fame: Melissa Barbieri". Football Victoria. 15 October 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2023. This was the second time she had won the W- League's top goalkeeping award, the first time being for Melbourne Victory in the inaugural W-League season in 2008-2009.
  2. ^ "Triple treat at W-League Awards". Canberra United. 7 December 2009. Archived from the original on 20 March 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Kyah Simon Named Julie Dolan Medal Winner". Sydney FC. 7 March 2011.
  4. ^ "Shipard named W-League Player of the Year". Football Federation Australia. 11 April 2012.
  5. ^ "Marco Rojas wins Johnny Warren Medal". Football Federation Australia. 16 April 2013.
  6. ^ "Thomas Broich wins A-League's Johnny Warren medal for a second time". ABC News. 29 April 2014.
  7. ^ "Hyundai A-League/Westfield W-League award winners". Football Federation Australia. 11 May 2015.
  8. ^ "Glory star Castro wins Johnny Warren medal". Football Federation Australia. 26 April 2016.
  9. ^ "Milos Ninkovic wins Johnny Warren Medal". The World Game. SBS. 1 May 2017.
  10. ^ Smithies, Tom (30 April 2018). "Dolan Warren Awards: Mierzejewski wins Johnny Warren; Kerr, Polkinghorn split the Dolan". The Daily Telegraph.
  11. ^ a b "Bledsoe named co-W-League Goalkeeper of the Year". Washington Spirit. 23 July 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  12. ^ "Lydia Williams crowned 2019/20 Westfield W-League Goalkeeper of the Year". Westfield Matildas. 23 July 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  13. ^ Monteverde, Marco (23 June 2021). "A-League: Milos Ninkovic and Ulises Davila share Johnny Warren medal honours". The Australian.
  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. ^ Harrington, Anna (1 June 2023). "Craig Goodwin, Alex Chidiac win A-Leagues top honours". Yahoo! Sports.
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