FIFA Women's World Cup awards 2023: Every player and team honour won in Australia and New Zealand
While all teams and players were aiming to win the ultimate prize of the World Cup trophy in Australia and New Zealand, there were also a host of other trophies and individual awards on offer for performances in the tournament.
Women's World Cup 2023 awards: Who won the Golden Boot, Golden Glove and Golden Ball?
There were nine awards on offer at the 2023 Women's World Cup, with eight going to individual players for their on the pitch achievements during the tournament, and one award given to one of the 32 participating nations.
- Spain beat England 1-0 in the Women's World Cup final to win the tournament for the first time. The following are the winners of the various awards presented after the final:
Golden Boot: Hinata Miyazawa (Japan) - five goals, one assist
Silver Boot: Kadidatou Diani (France) - four goals, one assist
Bronze Boot: Alexandra Popp (Germany) – four goals
Golden Glove: Mary Earps (England)
Golden Ball: Aitana Bonmati (Spain)
Silver Ball: Jennifer Hermoso (Spain)
Bronze Ball: Amanda Ilestedt (Sweden)
Best Young Player: Salma Paralluelo (ESP)
Fair Play Award: Japan
FIFA Women's World Cup Golden Ball Award Winners All-Time 1991-2023
The Golden Ball is the award to the player adjudged to have been the best performer of all players at the tournament,
The 2023 prize was won by Spain star Aitana Bonmati.
These are the past winners of the award:
2023: Aitana Bonmati (Spain)
2019: Megan Rapinoe (USA)
2015: Carli Lloyd (USA)
2011: Homare Sawa (Japan)
2007: Marta (Brazil
2003: Birgit Prinz (Germany)
1999: Sun Wen: (China)
1995: Hege Riise (Norway)
1991: Carin Jennings (USA)
FIFA Women's World Cup Silver Ball Award Winners All-Time 1991-2023
The Silver Ball is awarded to the player who finishes second in the media voting for best player at the tournament, coming from the same shortlist as the Golden Ball winner.
2023: Jenni Hermoso (Spain)
2019: Lucy Bronze (England)
2015: Amandine Henry (France)
2011: Abby Wambach (USA)
2007: Birgit Prinz (Germany)
2003: Victoria Svensson (Sweden)
1999: Sissi (Brazil)
1995: Gro Espeseth (Norway)
1991: Michelle Akers (USA)
FIFA Women's World Cup Bronze Ball Award Winners All-Time 1991-2023
The Bronze Ball is given to the player who finishes third in the voting process of best overall player at the Women's World Cup. United States' Rose Lavelle won the award in 2019.
2023: Amanda Ilestedt (Sweden)
2019: Rose Lavelle (USA)
2015: Aya Miyama (Japan)
2011: Hope Solo (USA)
2007: Cristane (Brazil)
2003: Maren Meinert (Germany)
1999: Michelle Akers (USA)
1995: Ann Kristin Aarones (Norway)
1991: Linda Medalen (Norway)
FIFA Women's World Cup Golden Boot Award Winners All-Time 1991-2023
The Golden Boot award is given to the top scorer at the World Cup; if two players finish with the same number of goals, the player who has more assists in the tournament will be given the award.
The 2023 Golden Boot was won by Hinata Miyazawa of Japan, with six goals.
2023: Hinata Miyazawa, 6 goals (Japan)
2019: Megan Rapinoe, 6 goals (USA)
2015: Celia Sasic, 6 goals (Germany)
2011: Homare Sawa, 5 goals (Japan)
2007: Marta, 7 goals (Brazil)
2003: Birgit Prinz, 7 goals (Germany)
1999: Sun Wen (China) and Sissi (Brazil), 7 goals
1995: Ann Kristin Aarones, 6 goals (Norway)
1991: Michelle Akers, 10 goals (USA)
FIFA Women's World Cup Silver Boot award Winners All-Time 1991-2023
The Silver Boot is the award given to the player with the second-most goals at the World Cup tournament; note the award was not given in 1999 due to the Golden Boot being shared.
2023: Kadidiatou Diani, 4 goals (France)
2019: Alex Morgan, 6 goals (USA)
2015: Carli Lloyd, 6 goals (USA)
2011: Marta, 4 goals (Brazil)
2007: Abby Wambach, 6 goals (USA)
2003: Maren Meinert, 4 goals (Germany)
1995: Hege Riise, 5 goals (Norway)
1991: Heidi Mohr, 7 goals (Germany)
FIFA Women's World Cup Bronze Boot award Winners All-Time 1991-2023
The Bronze Boot is awarded to the player ranked third in the overall goalscoring list, with the same tiebreaker rules as the Golden Boot.
2023: Alexandra Popp, 4 goals (Germany)
2019: Ellen White, 6 goals (England)
2015: Anja Mittag, 5 goals (Germany)
2011: Abby Wambach, 4 goals (USA)
2007: Ragnhild Gulbrandsen, 6 goals (Norway)
2003: Katia, 4 goals (Brazil)
1999: Ann Kristin Aarones, 4 goals (Norway)
1995: Shi Guihong, 3 goals (China)
1991: Linda Medalen (Norway) and Carin Jennings (USA), 6 goals
FIFA Women's World Cup Golden Glove award Winners All-Time 1999-2023
The Golden Glove award is given to the best performing goalkeeper at the tournament who keeps the most clean sheets (matches without conceding a goal), the award was first given at the 1999 World Cup.
England's Mary Earps won the prize at the 2023 World Cup.
2023: Mary Earps, 3 clean sheets (England)
2019: Sari van Veenendaal, 3 clean sheets (Netherlands)
2015: Hope Solo, 5 clean sheets (USA)
2011: Hope Solo, 2 clean sheets (USA)
2007: Nadine Angerer, 6 clean sheets (Germany)
2003: Silke Rottenberg, 2 clean sheets (Germany)
1999: Gao Hong (China) and Briana Scurry (USA), 4 clean sheets
FIFA Women's Young Player Award Winners All-Time 2011-2023
The FIFA Young Player award is given to the best performing player at the tournament who is at most 21 – the award is given by the FIFA Study Group.
The 2023 award went to Salma Paralluelo of Spain.
2023: Salma Paralluelo, 19 years old (Spain)
2019: Guila Gwinn, 20 years old (Germany)
2015: Kadeisha Buchanan, 19 years old (Canada)
2011: Caitlin Foord, 16 years old (Australia)
FIFA Women's Fair Play Award Winners All-Time 1991-2023
The FIFA Fair Play Award is given to the team who has demonstrated the best record of fair play throughout the tournament, meaning the side with the fewest yellow and red cards will receive the award.
Japan won the award in 2023.
2023: Japan
2019: France
2015: France
2011: Japan
2007: Norway
2003: China
1999: China
1995: Sweden
1991: Germany
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