Manchester United’s Earps and West Ham’s Arnold named Best FIFA Football Awards finalists | OneFootball

Manchester United’s Mary Earps and West Ham United’s Mackenzie Arnold have been named as finalists at The Best FIFA Football Awards 2023.

WSL Full-Time were informed of the news via an official press release from FIFA this afternoon.

Both players have been named in the top three nominees for The Best FIFA Women’s Goalkeeper category with the overall winner of the award to be announced next month.

Manchester United goalkeeper Earps has enjoyed a hugely successful year for club and country. The 30-year-old was a Barclays Women’s Super League runner-up with The Red Devils last season while she helped the club to reach a first Adobe Women’s FA Cup final. On the international stage, Earps was a FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023 runner-up with England while she won the Arnold Clark Cup and inaugural Women’s Finalissima with her country.

Earps’ personal accolades include winning the Golden Glove both in last season’s Barclays Women’s Super League and at the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023. She was also recently named England Women’s Player of the Year.

Australian international goalkeeper Arnold has been one of West Ham United’s top-performing players. She has brought her quality to the team along with a calming influence. In the summer, Arnold helped Australia to qualify for the FIFA Women’s World Cup semi-finals for the first time after starring in a penalty shootout victory over France in the quarter-finals.

Earps and Arnold will go up against FC Barcelona and Spain’s Catalina Coll for the right to become the world’s best female goalkeeper.

All the winners of The Best FIFA Football Awards 2023 will be crowned at a special ceremony on Monday 15 January 2024 in London.