Paris SG striker Tabitha Chawinga was named best player of the 2023-24 women’s D1 season on Monday evening, with the trophy for best coach going, like last year, to Lyonnaise Sonia Bompastor.
With 18 goals and ten assists one day before the end of the regular season, the 27-year-old Malawian player, who arrived on loan at PSG in September, is at the top of the individual statistics.
For her first season in France, she succeeds Kadidiatou Diani, crowned last year and has since moved from PSG to OL.
Sonia Bompastor, coach of Olympique Lyonnais since April 2021, received the award for best coach in the championship for the second year in a row.
The first woman appointed as head of women’s OL, Bompastor is experiencing a new intense season: her Lyonnaises are leading the D1 regular season and qualified this weekend for the Champions League final where they will challenge FC Barcelona, reigning European champion.
Innovation on the goalkeeper side, where the Nigerian Chiamaka Nnadozié, last bastion of Paris FC, put an end to the supremacy of Christiane Endler.
The Lyonnaise was eyeing the trophy for best goalkeeper in the women’s D1 for the fifth time in a row.
Le Havre’s Ines Benyahia, 21, scorer of 8 goals this season, received the revelation of the season prize.