Your votes have been counted and we can now confirm the overall winner of the women's GOAL50 2022!
GOAL50 is an annual award that gives fans the power to rank the 50 best footballers in the world over the previous 12 months.
This year GOAL50 featured three categories of players to vote on. In addition to the Men and Women categories, we added a special once-off World Cup Wonders category to pay tribute to the legends of the past.
GOAL50 employs a unique voting system that sees fans voting on a series of head-to-head clashes between players in each category.
There were 2,450 possible player match-ups in each category, and the players with the most victories have now been crowned the GOAL50 2022 winners.
Here are the final standings, and the overall winner, of the women's GOAL50 2022!
GOAL1Alexia Putellas – Barcelona & Spain
In 2022, Putellas become the first female player to win the Ballon d'Or for two years in a row – she was also named FIFA Best Women's Player. Had it not been for an ACL injury on the eve of the tournament, Spain may well have enjoyed more success at the Euros. A true force to be reckoned with within the world of football and a worthy GOAL50 winner for the second year in a row.
AdvertisementGOAL2Aitana Bonmatí – Barcelona & Spain
Named in the official UEFA Women's EURO 2022 Team of the Tournament as well as being nominated for the Ballon d’Or 2022, the Barcelona midfielder is simply a joy to watch whenever she takes to the field of play. Very much the present and future for both club and country, the world is at her feet.
GOAL3Alex Morgan – San Diego Wave & USA
She may have not made Goal’s top 50 last year, but Morgan is back with a bang this time around to break the top three. Despite now being 33 years of age, the striker reminded everyone of her quality netting 15 goals in 17 regular season games to win the golden boot in the NWSL – she also scored the winning goal at the 2022 Concacaf W Championship for the USWNT.
GOAL4Beth Mead – Arsenal & England
Despite Arsenal finishing the 2021-22 season second in the WSL, Mead’s eight assists was the league’s highest total and made her the WSL’s all-time assists leader. After the Euros, Mead was named BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year, before coming runner-up in the 2022 Ballon d’Or Feminin.