The Australia forward has been one of the greatest goalscorers in women’s football over the past decade and has won 11 major trophies at Chelsea.<\/p>\n
From thumping headers to audacious lobs and acrobatic backflips, Kerr has shown it all during her spell in London.<\/p>\n
Kerr arrived from Chicago Red Stars in January 2020 after agreeing a move with former Chelsea manager Emma Hayes.<\/p>\n
Despite leaving the USA six years ago, Kerr remains the all-time leading scorer in the National Women’s Soccer League.<\/p>\n
She also held the Australian W-League record upon her arrival at Chelsea and still sits third in the list.<\/p>\n
Kerr picked up the Golden Boot for three years in a row in the US – her last tally of 18 was the highest in a single campaign until Temwa Chawinga scored 21 in 2024.<\/p>\n
Goalscoring records continued at Chelsea as she struck 16 times in 29 games in all competitions this season, becoming the club’s all-time WSL top scorer with 64.<\/p>\n
She has twice won the Golden Boot and was the WSL player of the season in 2022 and the PFA fans’ player of the year in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n
In 2023, she finished second in the Ballon d’Or voting after netting 29 goals in 38 appearances as the Blues secure a WSL and FA Cup double.<\/p>\n
Kerr’s 158th – and final – appearance could come on Saturday as Chelsea end the season at home to Manchester United.<\/p>\n
She departs as the Blues’ fourth-highest appearance maker and could move level with all-time leading scorer Fran Kirby (112) if she scores on Saturday.<\/p>\n
But it is also the timing of her goals that have proven so crucial, with 22 of them proving to be the winning strike in WSL games.<\/p>\n
The Australia captain, who is the record scorer for her country, has also netted in five FA Cup finals and five League Cup finals.<\/p>\n
She will depart having won five WSL titles, three FA Cups, three League Cups and the Community Shield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australia forward has been one of the greatest goalscorers in women’s football over the past decade and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-672635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}