CommBank Matilda Mary Fowler has taken out this year's PFA Young Women's Footballer of the Year award.
Up against a strong shortlist of candidates, including the likes of fellow national team teammates, Kyra Cooney-Cross, Charlotte Grant and Kaitlyn Torpey, Fowler was voted by PFA members as the outstanding performer.
It is the second time Fowler has won the player-voted award which considers the performances of professionals playing in the A-Leagues, as well as Australian players plying their trade overseas between June 2023 and June 2024, who are under the age of 23 at the time.
Fowler starred in the English Women's Super League last season for Manchester City, with the attacking midfielder scoring four times and adding six assists as City secured second place, behind champions Chelsea on goal difference.
The 21-year-old also delivered strong performances on the international stage. Fowler was an integral figure in six of seven of the CommBank Matildas’ 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup matches and played a key role for the CommBank Matildas in the lead-up to, and at, the Paris 2024 Olympics. The former Montpellier and Adelaide United player scored four goals in five appearances during Olympic qualifying.
Fowler joins Alex Chidiac (2017, 2018) and Ellie Carpenter (2020, 2021) as players who have won the Young Women's Footballer of the Year twice. Fowler last won the award in 2022.
"It means a lot to me,” Fowler said. “I think it's one of the best awards I can receive because getting something from the players I play alongside, and play against means a lot to me.
"To know that they think I'm doing well and give me that kind of recognition. I just feel super grateful for that."
The PFA will reveal the 2024 Men’s and Women’s Footballers of the Year next week.
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