The National Women's Soccer League Player of the Week is a weekly soccer award given to individual players in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). The honor is awarded by popular social media vote to the player deemed to have put in the best performances over the past week. The award has existed since the league's inception in 2013. In 2024, it was replaced by the Goal of the Week, but it was brought back in 2025.
Selection From 2013 to 2022, the winner was selected by the NWSL Media Association, an organization of journalists who regularly cover the league. Since week 2 of the 2022 NWSL season, the winner was selected by the results of a Twitter poll posted by the league.First posted poll for NWSL Player of the Week:
Winners
2013
Week Player Club 1 Sky Blue FC 2 Seattle Reign FC 3 Boston Breakers 4 Boston Breakers 5 Western New York Flash 6 Sky Blue FC 7 Boston Breakers 8 Sky Blue FC 9 (2) Western New York Flash 10 Chicago Red Stars 11 Portland Thorns FC 12 Western New York Flash 13 (2) Boston Breakers 14 (2) Portland Thorns FC 15 FC Kansas City 16 Seattle Reign FC 17 FC Kansas City 18 Washington Spirit 19 Chicago Red Stars
2014
Week Player Club 1 Western New York Flash 2 Houston Dash 3 Boston Breakers 4 Seattle Reign FC 5 FC Kansas City 6 Washington Spirit 7 Sky Blue FC 8 Boston Breakers 9 Western New York Flash 10 Portland Thorns FC 11 Portland Thorns FC 12 Western New York Flash 13 Seattle Reign FC 14 (2) Portland Thorns FC 15 Portland Thorns FC 16 (2) Seattle Reign FC 17 (3) Portland Thorns FC 18 Boston Breakers 19 Sky Blue FC
2015
Week Player Club 1 Seattle Reign FC 2 Chicago Red Stars 3 Washington Spirit 4 Western New York Flash 5 Chicago Red Stars 6 (2) Chicago Red Stars 7 Houston Dash 8 (2) Washington Spirit 9 Seattle Reign FC 10 Portland Thorns FC 11 (3) Washington Spirit 12 Portland Thorns FC 13 FC Kansas City 14 Western New York Flash 15 Seattle Reign FC 16 (4) Washington Spirit 17 Boston Breakers 18 (5) Washington Spirit 19 Seattle Reign FC 20 (6) Washington Spirit 21 Chicago Red Stars
2016
Week Player Club 1 Houston Dash 2 Seattle Reign FC 3 (2) Seattle Reign FC 4 Houston Dash 5 Chicago Red Stars 6 Portland Thorns FC 7 Western New York Flash 8 Western New York Flash 9 Chicago Red Stars 10 Western New York Flash 11 Seattle Reign FC 12 Orlando Pride 13 Washington Spirit 14 FC Kansas City 15 Houston Dash 16 Seattle Reign FC 17 (2) Houston Dash 18 Sky Blue FC 19 Portland Thorns FC
2017
Week Player Club 1 Seattle Reign FC 2 Seattle Reign FC 3 Boston Breakers 4 Washington Spirit 5 Seattle Reign FC 6 Chicago Red Stars 7 FC Kansas City 8 Portland Thorns FC 9 Sky Blue FC 10 Houston Dash 11 Seattle Reign FC 12 (2) Sky Blue FC 13 Houston Dash 14 (2) Seattle Reign FC 15 Washington Spirit 16 North Carolina Courage 17 (3) Sky Blue FC 18 Portland Thorns FC 19 FC Kansas City 20 Washington Spirit 21 (2) Boston Breakers 22 (2) Seattle Reign FC
2018
Week Player Club 1 Seattle Reign FC 2 Washington Spirit 3 North Carolina Courage 4 Chicago Red Stars 5 (2) North Carolina Courage 6 Chicago Red Stars 7 (2) Seattle Reign FC 8 North Carolina Courage 9 Houston Dash 10 Chicago Red Stars 11/12 Washington Spirit 13 (2) North Carolina Courage 14 Portland Thorns FC 15 Chicago Red Stars 16 North Carolina Courage 17 Houston Dash 19 (2) North Carolina Courage 20 (2) Portland Thorns FC 21 Sky Blue FC 22 (2) Chicago Red Stars 24 Portland Thorns FC
2019
Week Player Club 1 Portland Thorns FC 2 Portland Thorns FC 3 Chicago Red Stars 4 Washington Spirit 5 Chicago Red Stars 6 (2) Chicago Red Stars 7 (2) Washington Spirit 8 North Carolina Courage 9 Reign FC 10 Reign FC 11 (3) Chicago Red Stars 12 (2) North Carolina Courage 13 Orlando Pride 14 (4) Chicago Red Stars 15 (3) North Carolina Courage 16 (5) Chicago Red Stars 17 Utah Royals FC 18 Sky Blue FC 19 Portland Thorns FC 20 Washington Spirit 21 Reign FC 22 North Carolina Courage 23 (6) Chicago Red Stars 24 Reign FC 25 North Carolina Courage
2020 The 2020 NWSL regular season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 Challenge Cup
Week Player Club 1 None awarded 2 Orlando Pride 3 Houston Dash 4 OL Reign 5 Portland Thorns FC
2021
Week Player Club 1 NJ/NY Gotham FC 2 Racing Louisville FC 3 Chicago Red Stars 4 Portland Thorns FC 5 Racing Louisville FC 6 North Carolina Courage 7 North Carolina Courage 8 Washington Spirit 9 (2) Chicago Red Stars 10 OL Reign 11 OL Reign 12 OL Reign 13 NJ/NY Gotham FC 14 OL Reign 15 Chicago Red Stars 16 (2) OL Reign 17 Orlando Pride 18 (2) OL Reign 19 Games postponed 20 Houston Dash 21 (2) NJ/NY Gotham FC 22 (3) OL Reign
2022 Challenge Cup
Week Player Club 1 Chicago Red Stars 2 Houston Dash 3 San Diego Wave FC 4 Portland Thorns FC 5 Kansas City Current
2022
Week Player of the Week Runner-up Reference Player Club Player Club 1 Angel City FC None 2 San Diego Wave FC OL Reign 3 Angel City FC Kansas City Current 4 Chicago Red Stars Racing Louisville FC 5 OL Reign NJ/NY Gotham FC 6 Houston Dash Portland Thorns FC 7 San Diego Wave FC Portland Thorns FC 8 (2) San Diego Wave FC Portland Thorns FC 9 OL Reign Chicago Red Stars 10 Kansas City Current NJ/NY Gotham FC 11 Houston Dash Portland Thorns FC 12 (2) OL Reign San Diego Wave FC 13 Portland Thorns FC Houston Dash 14 Kansas City Current OL Reign 15 San Diego Wave FC North Carolina Courage 16 OL Reign Chicago Red Stars 17 Washington Spirit North Carolina Courage 18 San Diego Wave FC Chicago Red Stars 19 North Carolina Courage Portland Thorns FC
2023
Week Player of the Week Runner-up Reference Player Club Player Club 1 NJ/NY Gotham FC Portland Thorns FC 2 Portland Thorns FC Racing Louisville FC 3 OL Reign Chicago Red Stars 4 (2) NJ/NY Gotham FC OL Reign 5 Kansas City Current OL Reign 6 Portland Thorns FC Angel City FC 7 NJ/NY Gotham FC Wang Shuang Racing Louisville FC 8 (3) NJ/NY Gotham FC Racing Louisville FC 9 NJ/NY Gotham FC Chicago Red Stars 10 Angel City FC Portland Thorns FC 11 North Carolina Courage Orlando Pride 12 Washington Spirit North Carolina Courage 13 (2) Portland Thorns FC NJ/NY Gotham FC 14 Orlando Pride OL Reign 15 Orlando Pride NJ/NY Gotham FC 16 Kansas City Current North Carolina Courage
2025
Week Player Club 1 Orlando Pride 2 San Diego Wave FC 3 Washington Spirit 4 Angel City FC 5 San Diego Wave FC 6 NJ/NY Gotham FC 7 Angel City FC 8 Debinha Kansas City Current 9 Manaka Matsukubo North Carolina Courage 10 Adriana Leon San Diego Wave FC 11 Brittany Ratcliffe Washington Spirit 12 Jessie Fleming Portland Thorns FC 13 Aubrey Kingsbury Washington Spirit 14 Croix Bethune Washington Spirit 15 Jordyn Bloomer Racing Louisville FC 16 Jordyn Huitema Seattle Reign FC 17 Ludmila Chicago Stars FC 18 Riley Tiernan (2) Angel City FC 19 Trinity Rodman Washington Spirit 20 Tara McKeown Washington Spirit 21 Leicy Santos Washington Spirit 22 Gift Monday Washington Spirit 23 Rosemonde Kouassi Washington Spirit 24 Kennedy Fuller Angel City FC 25 Manaka Matsukubo (2) North Carolina Courage 26 Jessie Fleming (2) Portland Thorns FC
2026
Week Player Club 1 North Carolina Courage 2 Angel City FC 3 San Diego Wave FC 4 Houston Dash 5 Washington Spirit 6 Washington Spirit 7 Kansas City Current 8 Denver Summit FC 9 Portland Thorns FC 10 North Carolina Courage 11 (2) Washington Spirit 12 Gotham FC 13 Gotham FC 14 Racing Louisville FC 15 North Carolina Courage 16 Portland Thorns FC 17 Portland Thorns FC 18 (2) North Carolina Courage 19 San Diego Wave FC 20 No award 21 (3) North Carolina Courage 22 Chicago Stars FC 23 (2) Portland Thorns FC
Multiple winners
The below table lists players who have won on more than one occasion.
Indicates current NWSL player italics Indicates player still playing professional soccer
Rank Player Team(s) Wins 1 * Western New York Flash, NJ/NY Gotham FC, Chicago Stars FC 2 Washington Spirit, North Carolina Courage, Portland Thorns FC 3 Seattle Reign FC * Western New York Flash, North Carolina Courage, NJ/NY Gotham FC 5 * Seattle Reign FC * Chicago Stars FC, Seattle Reign FC * Boston Breakers, Seattle Reign FC, FC Kansas City, Orlando Pride, Angel City FC 8 * Washington Spirit, Chicago Stars FC * Boston Breakers, Chicago Stars FC * Portland Thorns FC 11 Portland Thorns FC, Kansas City Current North Carolina Courage, Kansas City Current Seattle Reign FC * Washington Spirit Portland Thorns FC, San Diego Wave FC Chicago Stars FC, Utah Royals FC, Angel City FC 17 Portland Thorns FC Houston Dash * North Carolina Courage, Kansas City Current * Portland Thorns FC, Denver Summit FC Seattle Reign FC Portland Thorns FC, Chicago Stars FC * Boston Breakers, San Diego Wave FC Seattle Reign FC Manaka Matsukubo North Carolina Courage * Portland Thorns FC, NJ/NY Gotham FC * Washington Spirit * North Carolina Courage 29 Seattle Reign FC Portland Thorns FC, Racing Louisville FC NJ/NY Gotham FC * Portland Thorns FC FC Kansas City * Washington Spirit Portland Thorns FC Western New York Flash Western New York Flash, North Carolina Courage Chicago Stars FC Seattle Reign FC, NJ/NY Gotham FC * Washington Spirit Boston Breakers Portland Thorns FC Washington Spirit, Seattle Reign FC * Angel City FC Western New York Flash Houston Dash North Carolina Courage
See also
List of sports awards honoring women NWSL awards NWSL Team of the Month NWSL Rookie of the Month NWSL Player of the Month NWSL records and statistics Women's soccer in the United States
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