Khadija Shaw

Khadija Monifa "Bunny" Shaw CD (born 31 January 1997) is a Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women's Super League club Manchester City and captains the Jamaica national team.

She is Jamaica's all-time top goalscorer for both women and men, holds the joint record for most hat tricks in the WSL, and was awarded CONCACAF Player of the Year in 2022.

Shaw played her first two years of junior college at Eastern Florida State College, earning NSCAA first-team National Junior College Athletic Association All-America honors in 2016.

In 2017, Shaw transferred to the University of Tennessee.

During her time with the Tennessee Volunteers, she was converted from a midfielder to a striker by her coach Brian Pensky.

She was named to the All-SEC first team in both her seasons with Tennessee and was awarded SEC Offensive Player of the Year as a senior in 2018.

She decided against entering into the NWSL Draft after college in order to look at overseas options in Europe and Asia.

In 2018, Shaw played for WPSL semi-pro team Florida Krush.

On 7 June 2019, D1 Féminine team Bordeaux announced they had signed Shaw on a two-year contract.

Khadija made her professional debut on 25 August 2019 with Bordeaux against FC Fleury 91.

On her debut game, she scored a brace that led to a 4–1 victory for the home team.

She repeated her performance, at an away game this time against Dijon FCO, on her second game.

In her first season, she scored 10 goals and made five assists in 15 league matches.

Shaw previously played for Division 1 club Bordeaux, became top scorer in the 2020–21 season, and was twice awarded Player of the Month.

With Manchester City, she is a League Cup winner and was voted Player of the Season for the club as top scorer in the 2022–23 season.

For the same season, Shaw was named in the WSL Team of the Year, and twice awarded WSL Player of the Month.

Shaw was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica to George Shaw, a shoemaker, and mother Monica, a chicken farmer.

She was the youngest of 13 brothers and sisters.

Shaw was nicknamed 'Bunny' by her brother Kentardo because of a fondness for carrots at an early age.

She attended high school at St. Jago High School.

Shaw began playing football with her older brothers before being taught by her brother Kentardo at age 10.

At age 13, Shaw was called up for the Jamaica U15s team for the first time.

While representing Jamaica, she received scholarship offers from Navarro College in Texas and Eastern Florida State College.

She was then scouted by the University of Tennessee.

She graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in communication.

Shaw scored four goals in a 6–1 victory over FC Fleury 91 on 10 October 2020.

She went on and scored hat-tricks against Dijon FCO and Stade de Reims during the season, with the former happening on 31 October 2020 to help earn them a 5–1 home victory and the later on 23 January 2021 to help Bordeaux to a massive 7–1 victory.

Her goal scoring run and general performance earned her the Division 1 Féminine Player of the Month twice in the months of October 2020 and January 2021.

She ended her second league season with 22 goals and seven assists in 20 matches winning the as the top goal scorer, beating Marie-Antoinette Katoto by a goal and also earning a place on the Trophées FFF D1 Féminine 2020–2021 Team of the Year.

She was nominated for the best player of the season awards for both Trophées UNFP du football and Trophées FFF D1 Féminine, however she was beaten by Kadidiatou Diani for both.

On 17 June 2021, Manchester City announced that they had signed Shaw from Bordeaux on a three-year deal.

Shaw spend her first season at the club primarily as the second choice striker behind Ellen White.

She scored her first hat-trick for the club in a 6–0 FA Cup win against Leicester City.

She also featured as the joint topscorer of the 2021–22 FA Women's League Cup.

Shaw went on to claim a winners medal as Man City triumphed, defeating Chelsea 3–1 in the League Cup final.

She later scored four goals in Man City's 7–2 win over Brighton and Hove in the Super League.

She would finish her first season as the team second highest goalscorer with 16 goals.

Shaw had her breakout year in her second season with the club as she established herself as the first choice striker following Ellen White's retirement.

On 12 March 2023, Shaw scored a brace in a 2–1 win over Brighton & Hove Albion taking her tally to an incredible 26 goals in 22 games with seven WSL games to go, becoming Manchester City's highest-scoring women's player in a single season and breaking Nikita Parris's record of 24 goals in the 2018–19 season.

On 5 May 2023, Shaw was named as the 2022 CONCACAF Female Player of the Year, becoming the first Caribbean player in history to win the award.