There are two showpiece matches left to go — Saturday’s Champions League final between Barcelona and OL Lyonnes in Oslo, and May 31’s Women’s FA Cup final between Brighton & Hove Albion and Manchester City — before the curtain comes down on the 2025-26 season in European domestic women’s football.In England, Manchester City regained the Women’s Super League title for the first time in a decade, Chelsea lifted the Women’s League Cup, and the aforementioned Lyon and Barca will go head to head in a blockbuster Champions League final for the right to be crowned European champions.Now seems like a perfect opportunity to reflect on some of the campaign’s outstanding performers, and so The Athletic’s team of experts have been voting for their 2025-26 award winners, covering the WSL and European competition.We have also announced our winners from the men’s game — you can read about those here — but here are the players and managers we are recognising for their achievements this season in women’s football.WSL Player of the Season: Khadija Shaw (Manchester City)Is there anything more to say that hasn’t already been said about Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw?The Jamaica striker is the WSL’s Golden Boot winner for the third time since 2023. In March, she scored three times against Tottenham Hotspur to become the scorer of the fastest hat-trick in WSL history at 12 minutes and 37 seconds. She is also one of the driving forces behind City’s first WSL title in a decade.A No 9 scoring 21 league goals in a season might seem like little more than a one-dimensional blunt instrument, a cheat code to the back of the net, but this season, Shaw has firmly established herself as the total forward threat she has long promised to become, from her technique and deft touch, to her ability to hold up play and bring in team-mates in the attack. There are few others like her.Megan FeringaWSL Young Player of the Season: Aoba Fujino (Manchester City)Few outside the most esoteric women’s football fans would have tipped Fujino for this award at the start of the season but the Japan international has swiftly established herself as one of the most exhilarating, incisive and intelligent wide players in the WSL this season.Capable of playing on both wings, the 22-year-old, who signed with City in 2024, was crucial to City’s title charge as Kerolin, Mary Fowler and Lauren Hemp all returned from respective injuries, and has rightfully established herself amongst the starting XI. In total, she provided five goals and three assists in the WSL across 15 appearances.This award was voted for by The Athletic’s subscribers.Megan FeringaWSL Manager of the Season: Andree Jeglertz (Manchester City)As City inched closer to their first WSL title in a decade, the candidates for this award did not so much fall to the wayside as form a guard of honour.Jeglertz has two decades of elite football coaching experience but few in England expected him to have such a profound impact on City in such a short space of time. Yet this has long been Jeglertz’s superpower: an ability to identify areas for improvement and eventually coax everyone to transcend them.Jeglertz has incorporated innovative ways of operating (incorporating boys from City Football Group into training sessions, making analysis sessions more informal and collaborative), but he’s also focused heavily on shifting the mentality of City to that of a winner. To say he has succeeded would be an understatement.Megan FeringaWSL Team of the SeasonManchester City have won their first WSL title in a decade so unsurprisingly, City features heavily here. Chelsea’s inconsistency and drop in their usual standards means many of their players missed out on the final cut.