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Biography
Samantha May Kerr was born on the 10th of September 1993 to the family of Roger Kerr and Roxanne Kerr in East Fremantle, Australia. She is an Australian professional football player. Kerr plays the role of a forwarder for Chelsea in the FA Women’s Super League and the Australia women’s national football team (the Matilda’s), and as well captains the club since 2019. She is popularly seen as one of the best forwards of all time in women’s football. As of 2022, Kerr is the all-time leading Australian international footballer, and is the all-time leading scorer in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) in the United States. She is the only female football player to have won the Golden Boot in three different leagues and three different continents – the Women-League (Australia/New Zealand) in 2017–2018 and 2018–2019, the NWSL (North America) in 2017, 2018, and 2019, and the FAWSL (Europe) in 2020–2021 and 2021–2022.
Kerr was named the 2018 Young Australian of the Year as part of the 2018 Australia Day Honours, and as part of the 2022 Australia Day Honours, was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her “services to football,” becoming only the second Australian female footballer to receive such an honour after the inaugural Matildas’ captain, Julie Dolan. She was awarded the 2017 and 2018 Julie Dolan Medal as the best player in Australia. Kerr is a record five-time recipient of the PFA Australian Women’s Footballer of the Year, awarded it in 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2022, and was named International Player of the Year by the Football Media Association in 2013 and 2014. She received the ESPY Award for Best International Women’s Soccer Player in 2018, 2019, and 2022, and was nominated for the award in 2021. She also won the ESPY Award for Best NWSL Soccer Player in 2019, and was nominated for the award in 2018. In 2022, Kerr was awarded the FWA Women’s Footballer of the Year. She is the first and only Australian women’s footballer to be named to the shortlist for the Ballon d’Or Féminin, and one of only two players (alongside France international Wendie Renard) to have been nominated in all editions of the award since its inception in 2018, ranking 5th, 7th, 3rd, and 3rd respectively. She has also been shortlisted for The Best FIFA Women’s Player consistently since 2017, ranking 10th, 9th, 11th, 7th, and 2nd, respectively. Kerr has also been nominated for the BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year award from 2018 to 2022 and has been named to the Top 10 of The Guardian’s The 100 Best Female Footballers In The World from 2017 to 2022, ranking 3rd, 2nd, 1st, 6th, 3rd, and 3rd, respectively.
Kerr is known for her tactic style of playing “speed, skill, tenacity,” and backflip goal celebrations, and is widely considered one of the best footballers, and strikers, in the world, and one of Australia’s greatest athletes.
| Full Name: | Samantha May Kerr |
| Current club: | Super League club Chelsea and the Australia women’s national football team |
| Born: | September 10, 1993 |
| Place of Birth: | East Fremantle, Australia |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Height: | 5 feet 6 inches |
| Parents: | Roger Kerr (father) and Roxanne Kerr (mother) |
| Siblings: | Daniel Kerr |
| Partner• Spouse: | Kristie Mewis |
| Zodiac sign: Virgo | |
| Children: | N/A |
| Occupation: | footballer |
| Net Worth: | $1. 5 million. |
FIFA FIFPro Women’s World XI 2023
Australian of the Year Award for Young Australian of the Year 2018
Best International Women’s Soccer Player ESPY Award 2022, 2019, 2018
Best NWSL Player ESPY Award 2019
Early Life & Education
Samantha May Kerr was born on the 10th of September 1993 to the family of Roger Kerr and Roxanne Kerr in East Fremantle, Australia. Kerr started playing football at very tender age. During the time, she was growing up, there was no girls league, she then played with the boys, after which the game got too rough, she too a break.
Her father and uncles were professional footballers in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and another uncle J. J. Miller was a champion jockey who won the Melbourne Cup in 1966 with Galilee. Sam’s father, Roger Kerr, was born in Calcutta to an English father (a featherweight boxer) and an Indian mother who played basketball.
Kerr said thus: “I started at 12, Before that it was all AFL. I hated soccer when I was a kid. I never had a soccer ball around the house”.
In 2006, at the age of Thirteen, she met Bobby Despotovski, an Australian striker who introduced her to amateur football in western knights in Mosman Park due to her extraordinary way of playing. She joined Perth Glory in 2008 before joining the Australian women’s national football team, also known as Matilda’s, in 2009.
Kerr played Australian rules football when she was young. Both her father and older brother, Daniel Kerr, were professional Australian rules footballers. She played the sport until switching to association football at the age of 12, mostly due to gender restrictions.
At 17-years old, Kerr went to her first World Cup, joining seven other players under 20-years-old on the 2011 Australian roster. The Matildas advanced out of the competition’s group stage but fell to Sweden in the knockout round, ending the team’s World Cup run.
Kerr studied at Samson Primary School in Perth, Australia, after which She joined Kennedy Baptist College, a top co-educational Christian school.
Personal Life
Kerr is allegedly a gay and in a relationship with American footballer Kristie Mewis. Although, she previously dated former Perth Glory and Chicago Red Stars teammate, Nikki Stanton.
Kerr is a supporter of the West Coast Eagles along with her brother Daniel Kerr, she was made the club’s number-one ticket holder in 2019 and 2020.
Career
In 2008, she officially joined the A-League side, Perth Glory, and made her senior appearance at the age of Fifteen (15). Having spent a 3-year successful stint, she signed her new contract with Western New York Flash by the 2013 National Women’s Soccer League inaugural season. In her appearance season, she made a total number of nineteen (19) starts in her 21 appearances and scored a total number of six (6) goals.
Her team could beat the Sky Blue FC 2–0 in the semi-finals and reach the final which wasn’t successful and Flash went over to Portland. She remained with the Flash in the 2014 season and play in all 20 matches and became the team’s leading scorer with a total number of nine (9) goals. Afterward, in August 2014, she decided to rejoin her former club, Perth Glory with a one-year contract. Kerr’s appearance season was almost successful but the following one brought her some difficulties.
Despite her brilliant performances in the appearance matches of the season, she got an ankle injury which forced her out for the rest of the season, however, her side decided to sign a one-year contract extension before the start of the new season. Following her extension, in October 2018, Kerr became the first marquee player in the WomenLeague as she was offered a 400,000 dollars contract to stay in Perth instead of joining other teams and going overseas.
This beneficial contract was delivered in the 2018–2019 Women-League season when she finished top of the goal-scoring table with a total number of seventeen (17) goals at above a goal a game. At the end of the season, Flash sold Kerr to Sky Blue FC in exchange for Elizabeth Eddy. In Sky Blue, Kerr could play along with her Matildas teammate Caitlin Foord as they both represented their national team in FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada. During her two-year spell with Sky Blue, she clinched several goals, but two, in particular, brought her the Week 18 NWSL Player of the Week. She finished the 2017 season with a record-breaking seventeen (17) goals and at the age of 23, she became the all-time NWSL goalscoring table.
Later on, in January, Kerr was sold to Chicago Red Stars in a trade with Nikki Stanton. She made her appearance, in the 2018 season which was not that much impressive as she could not score any goal until the eighth match of the season when she helped her side in a 1–1 draw match against North Carolina Courage. After that, her situation got better, and she could obtain several achievements as an individual player.
Afterward, at the end of 2019, despite her acceptable condition in Chicago Red Stars, she decided to take a bigger step and move to Europe.
On 13 November 2019, Chelsea officiated that they had signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Kerr. She later made her Premier League appearance on 5 January 2020 in a match against Reading, two weeks later she scored her appearance goal against Arsenal. Shortly after her appearance, she could become the leading goal scorer and assistant for Chelsea in the 2020-2021 season.
Kerr ended the 2021 calendar year as the leading goal scorer in the WSL, with a total number of twenty-three (23) goals, and was second in total assists with 10, behind only team-mate Fran Kirby.
Upon returning to Chelsea after being eliminated in the Asian Cup at the beginning of 2022, Kerr continued with a fine run of goal-scoring, scoring 10 goals in 7 consecutive matches, the first Chelsea player to do so. She scored the lone Chelsea goal in a 3–1 defeat at the hands of Manchester City in the League Cup final and in Chelsea’s 0–9 record-breaking win against Leicester City in the WSL on 27 March, Kerr scored a brace, repeating the feat the following week in a match against Reading, the 5th consecutive WSL match she had scored in. On 24 April, in a league game against Tottenham Hotspur, Kerr scored in her 6th consecutive WSL match, and in doing so, broke her own record set the previous season of scoring against the most opposing teams, by scoring against all opponents bar Arsenal. In April 2022, Kerr was awarded the FWA Women’s Footballer of the Year, receiving 40% of the vote ahead of Vivianne Miedema and Lauren Hemp, and won the FA WSL April Player of the Month.
Kerr ended the season with a total number of thirty-two (32) goals (including 3 goals of FA Cup 2020–2021 held during 2021–2022 season period) and 9 assists across all competitions, winning the FA Women’s Super League for the third consecutive time, and the FA Women’s Cup for the second consecutive time. After a formidable season in front of goal for the Blues, the 2021–2022 Golden Boot winner was voted Chelsea Women’s Player of the Year by Chelsea supporters with over 70 per cent of the vote and was also voted FA Women’s Super League Player of the Season. She also received the PFA Players’ Player of the Year, in addition to being named in the PFA WSL Team of the Year for second consecutive year. The No.20 finished top goal scorer, netting 32 times in all competitions. Kerr retained the Golden Boot award for the second consecutive year, having scored 20 times in the Barclays FA Women’s Super League in 2021–2022 season. The striker scored a number of important goals this season, including a crucial 92nd-minute winner against Aston Villa at Kingsmeadow in March 2022 to keep the Blues’ title hopes alive. Kerr also scored twice as Chelsea beat Manchester United on the final day of the season, with her well-taken volley against the Red Devils being voted FA Women’s Super League Goal of the Season. The No.20 also scored the winning goal at Wembley as the Blues secured their second consecutive FA Cup.
Net Worth
Samantha May Kerr has worked as a footballer right from child. she has accumulated a satisfactory fortune from playing football. Samantha May Kerr has an astonished net worth of $1.5 million.
Social Media
Samantha May Kerr as humble and hardworking as she is discovered that she also has some social media platforms where she can be connected.
- @Samantha May Kerr (@samanthakerr20) is her Instagram handle.
- @Samantha May Kerr (@samkerr1) is her Twitter handle.
