Public vote opens for Barclays WSL and Women’s Championship awards | OneFootball

The Barclays WSL has opened its end-of-season Public Vote, with supporters now able to help decide key honours across the top flight and the Women’s Championship. That matters because the 2025/26 campaign has produced strong cases in both divisions, and the official WSL Awards now stretch across the full league structure rather than only the title race.

According to the league’s official announcement, voting opened on 8 May and will run until 13 May, with separate deadlines for the two tiers.

The vote covers six categories across the WSL and Women’s Championship

The current public ballot includes six categories in total: Player of the Season, Manager of the Season and Save of the Season in the Barclays WSL, plus Player of the Season, Goal of the Season and Save of the Season in the Women’s Championship, branded by the league as WSL2.

In the Barclays WSL Player of the Season category, the nominees are Kerstin Casparij, Kirsty Hanson, Olivia Holdt, Ruby Mace, Jess Park, Alessia Russo, Khadija Shaw and Alyssa Thompson. The shortlist for WSL Manager of the Season features Martin Ho, Andrée Jeglertz and Renée Slegers, while the save nominees are Janina Leitzig, Daphne Van Domselaar, Chiamaka Nnadozie, Elene Lete, Anneke Borbe and Ayaka Yamashita.

WSL voting closes at 5pm on 13 May, while the Women’s Championship deadline is earlier at 10am that same day. The process sits within the league’s official end-of-season programme, with more detail also reflected in wider coverage of this year’s women’s football awards nominations.

These awards reflect a season the league is asking supporters to help define

Public recognition always risks leaning toward profile, but fan voting also tells its own story about which performances have cut through over a long season. That is especially true in a year when title contention, European qualification and second-tier promotion races have all sharpened the conversation around who has actually driven results.

That fits a wider pattern She Kicks has been tracking. Recent recognition pieces, from Matt Beard’s WSL Hall of Fame induction to the title-shaping context around Manchester City’s place in the WSL race, point to a league getting more deliberate about how it records achievement. Attention is easy to count. Institutional memory takes more work.

What happens next is straightforward

According to reporting around the awards schedule, winners are due to be announced on 20 May, with the end-of-season honours feeding into the league’s final stretch and post-season framing. More broadly, they sit alongside a competition that continues to grow in visibility, with the WSL’s wider development outlined in recent season coverage and discussion around the professional game’s expansion tracked by BBC Sport’s women’s football reporting.