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Women's Super League Golden Glove

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ118746879 ↗
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The Women's Super League Golden Glove is an annual association football award presented to the goalkeeper who has kept the most clean sheets in the Women's Super League. In football a team's defense or goalkeeper may be said to "keep a clean sheet" if they prevent their opponents from scoring any goals during an entire match. For sponsorship purposes, it has been referred to as the Barclays WSL Golden Glove since its inception during the 2019–20 season.

In 2020, the inaugural Women's Super League Golden Glove was awarded to Ellie Roebuck of Manchester City.

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This entry incorporates text from “Women's Super League Golden Glove” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.