The numbers behind Bunny Shaw’s Golden Boot season | OneFootball

The clinical career of Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw continued last term with the Jamaican winning the Barclays Women’s Super League Golden Boot.

Despite enduring an injury-hit campaign, she still scored an impressive 12 top-flight goals in 14 outings which presented the division’s best average of just shy of 0.86 per match as she shared the trophy with Arsenal’s Alessia Russo.

Staggering statistics have accompanied Bunny’s time at City since her arrival in 2021 and 2024/25 was no different.

Read the numbers behind her season below…

POACHER’S INSTINCT

All 12 of Bunny’s goals last term came from inside the box – the joint-most from the area across the entirety of the WSL and the highest among her City team-mates.

A total of five of those were netted by headers and the Jamaican ranked the highest in this area across the top-flight.

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BACK-TO-BACK

Shaw’s Golden Boot triumph in 2024/25 is the second year in succession that she has won the award following  the 2023/24 award after scoring 21 goals in 18 games.

It means she has become only the third player in the WSL’s history to collect the prize back-to-back joining City team-mate Vivianne Miedema, who claimed the Golden Boot with Arsenal in 2018/19 and 2019/20, and Chelsea’s Sam Kerr who scored the most in 2020/21 and 2021/22.

Bunny is still the only City player to win the WSL Golden Boot while playing for the Club.

SHARP SHOOTER

Establishing herself as one of the WSL’s most prolific players is built on foundations of a willingness and a desire to shoot.

This was further exemplified last term in the division with Bunny ranking high in various categories when it comes to attempts on goal.

Despite playing only 14 league matches, her total shots of 52 is still the fourth highest across her top-flight counterparts and her tally of 22 shots on target ranked in third.

This means just over half (0.54) of every shot on target found the back of the net last term.

And her average shots per game of 5.3 among those who played 500+ minutes is the highest across the division.

FAVOURED OPPONENT

Bunny’s 12 goals were shared between six WSL teams last term with the Jamaican finding the most joy against Liverpool – who she scored four against in 2024/25.

In City’s dramatic 2-1 win over the Reds at Anfield in November, she equalised shortly after half-time before scoring a last-gasp winner in injury-time to seal all three points on Merseyside.

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Her goal two minutes after the clock ticked past 90 represented her latest strike across the term.

She then added two more to her Liverpool tally in the reverse fixture at the Joie Stadium in February when she bagged a first-half brace as we secured a 4-0 home victory.

HAT-TRICK HERO

En route to the Golden Boot, Bunny also wrote further history by becoming the leading WSL hat-trick scorer of all-time.

The Jamaican raised her tally to six with a treble in a 4-0 win over Tottenham at the Etihad Stadium in November which saw her overtake Miedema who currently possesses five.

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