The NWSL 2025 common season is over, and whereas we await for MVP, Finest XI, and finish of 12 months awards, we already know who the Iron Girls are for this season.
Seattle Reign’s Claudia Dickey
Seattle’s No. 1 Claudia Dickey has performed 2.340 minutes defending the membership’s purpose. She has a 75.2% success price on saves, registered seven clear sheets, 17 catches, two punches, two drops and 13 clearances.
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Relating to distribution, she has a 72.3% success price briefly passes (968 complete, 700 profitable, 37.2 passes per 90 minutes) and a 31.5% success price on lengthy passes.
She additionally leads your complete NWSL in objectives prevented.
Chicago Stars’ Taylor Malham
Left again Taylor Malham has been with the membership since 2023. She performed 20 matches with Chicago final season and this one, she went all in and have become the membership’s iron girl.
Malham performed and began 26 video games, accumulating 2,340 minutes underneath her belt. On the defensive aspect, she made 78 clearances (67.3% success price), 5 blocks (53.3% success price), and 32 interceptions (42.4% success price). She additionally gained 17 fouls and earned 4 yellow playing cards.
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Her distribution was good, with 796 complete passes, with 606 being profitable (76.1% success price) and with a price of 30.6 passes per 90 minutes.
We will add that she made 41 complete open play crosses, with eight profitable crosses, one help and 18 key passes.
North Carolina Braveness’s Kaleigh Kurtz
The stalwart heart again has registered 159 clearances, 25 blocks, and 33 interceptions for the Braveness this season. With a 64.5% success price in tackles, 63.6% success price in duels and 67.2% success price in aerial duels, Kurtz has been key for the Braveness’s backline.
Not solely that however the heart again has put her title on the rating sheet as soon as within the match when NC confronted off towards Kansas Metropolis.
If we speak about distribution, she has an 81.2% success price briefly passes after registering 1,566 complete passes, with 1,272 of them being profitable. , and 43.9% in lengthy passes.
Regardless of this not being a superb 12 months for the membership, Utah might all the time rely on Kate Del Fava.
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The defender had a excessive success proportion in tackles with 83.3%, a 57.6% success price on duels and a 64.6% success price on aerial duels. She additionally registered 174 clearances, 16 blocks and 32 interceptions.
She’s gained 5 yellow playing cards and gained 16 fouls.
If we speak about distribution, she boasts an 85.6% success price briefly passes. That proportion comes from 1,315 complete passes made, with 1,125 being profitable (5036 passes per 90). In lengthy passes, her success price is 45.3%.
Though the assault isn’t her space of experience, she contributed to it with one help, 9 key passes, and three complete open play crosses.
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Bay FC’s Caprice Dydasco
One other defender who’s the membership’s iron girl is Caprice Dydasco. The veteran registered 90 clearances this season, together with 13 blocks and 43 interceptions. She additionally has a 62.5% success price in tackles, 59.5% in duels, and 50% in aerial duels.
Relating to distribution, she has a 79.1% success price briefly passes (1,123 complete passes, with 888 profitable ones and 43.2 passes per 90) and a 39.1% success price in lengthy passes.
She’s all the time serving to within the ultimate third and that’s how she’s made 43 complete open play crosses, 15 profitable crosses, 26 key passes and registered one help.
Out of the opposite iron ladies defenders, she’s the one with probably the most fouls gained, with 40.
