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Cast your vote in Women’s Goal of the Season poll
Monday 12 May 2025 17:00
The shortlist for Manchester United Women’s 2024/25 Goal of the Season, in association with Tezos, has been announced.
It features 10 standout strikes from a progressive campaign for Marc Skinner’s side, who still have the Women’s FA Cup final to come after securing European football for next season via the WSL.
Last year’s FA Cup final – a 4-0 victory over Tottenham a year ago today (12 May) – was when our last Women’s Goal of the Season was scored, with Ella Toone’s long-range opener at Wembley voted our eventual winner.
Now, it’s time to choose your successor to Tooney’s triumphant thunderbolt and you can do so via the poll towards the bottom of this article. But first, why not refresh your memory on the nominated efforts via the video shortlist below?
It’s quite the watch!
Toone is again in the running to win the award this year for a sumptuous curling effort in January’s high-scoring FA Cup win over West Brom, but that goal faces fierce competition from her team-mates’ best attempts.
Celin Bizet is one of three Reds to have two strikes shortlisted – her first being a pleasing piledriver from distance that beat Brighton’s goalkeeper after the winger had pulled off a nonchalant nutmeg in the middle of the park. The second is her FA Cup semi-final opener away to Man City that she precisely bent just inside the post after more impressive skill.
Melvine Malard also has a derby goal as one of her two shots at the prize, following her crucial equaliser at home to City that secured our place in next season’s Champions League earlier this month. The other from our French no.9 is an ice-cold finish to a swift, back-to-front United move against Leicester.
Top scorer Elisabeth Terland, meanwhile, scored emphatic volleys in our home and away meetings with Tottenham this term and sees both of those finishes among the contenders. Our no.19’s woodwork-slapping strike at Leigh was her first for the club, months before she met a flighted Jayde Riviere delivery to guide home the only goal at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Completing the list is three unstoppable right-footed strikes, which are all very different but each involve high levels of accuracy and technique.
Leah Galton’s Old Trafford nominee against West Ham may have come all the way back on September’s opening day, but possessed the agility, control and precision to make the end-of-season cut, after she squeezed the ball inside the near post on her weaker side, following a commendable left-footed dribble.
There was no need for Maya Le Tissier to work an angle for her thumping volley away to Everton, though – the next of the aforementioned three – simply touch and hit. The skipper coolly brought down a cleared corner delivery with her midriff, before belting the ball through the dark Merseyside night and into the net.
Last but not least, Grace Clinton’s Rooney-esque long-range lob at Aston Villa. The energetic midfielder stole the ball back in midfield, took three touches to get it out of her feet and, having seen Villa keeper Sabrina D’Angelo off her line, successfully dipped in a classy flighted effort from just outside the centre circle.
So, which one gets your vote?
As mentioned above, Toone took home the prize last year while Alessia Russo was the winner a year before, for her memorable stoppage-time winner at Arsenal in the 2022/23 season.
This year’s victorious goal will be announced when the poll closes on Saturday.
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