Shaw wins PFA Women’s Player of the Year award

Reggae Girl Khadija 'Bunny' Shaw has added another award to her collection. She pocketed the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Women's Player of the Year Award in Manchester, England, last night.

Shaw earned the award after an outstanding 2023/24 Women's Super League campaign as she ended the season as the league's top scorer with 21 goals - including three hat-tricks - and three assists in just 18 appearances.

The season also saw Shaw becoming Manchester City's all-time leading goal scorer last season with 72 goals, surpassing Georgia Stanway's total of 67 goals.

Shaw's season ended prematurely in April due to a broken leg which required surgery.

The 27-year-old is the third City player to receive the PFA Player of the Year Award , with Lucy Bronze and Izzy Christiansen, the previous club winners.

Shaw clinched the title, over City teammates Lauren Hemp and Yui Hasegawa and Chelsea trio Erin Cuthbert, Niamh Charles, and Lauren James.

Already the winner of the Football Writers' Association Women's Player of the Year award in May, Shaw has completed a notable double. She is now the third woman after Chelsea's Fran Kirby (2018 and 2021) and Sam Kerr (2022) to win both individual awards, voted on by players and journalists respectively, in the same year.

The male PFA Player of the Year award was won by another Manchester City player, England's Phil Foden.

Foden, 24, was instrumental in City winning a fourth consecutive English Premier League title, scoring 19 times and providing eight assists.

Founded in 1907, the PFA is the football players' trade union. Each year since 1974, their male members have voted on their Player of the Year. A new award for the women's Player of the Year was introduced in 2013 with all Women's Super League players made eligible to join the previously all-male union the next season.