‘Women’s goalkeeping has improved so much’ – Hannah Hampton | OneFootball

Chelsea goalkeeper Hannah Hampton wants to ‘big up’ women’s goalkeepers after picking up the Women’s Super League Golden Glove award.

Hampton kept 13 clean sheets during Chelsea’s unbeaten domestic campaign, sharing the Golden Glove honour with Manchester United’s Phallon Tullis-Joyce.

Receiving her award at the Women’s Professional Game Awards on Sunday, the England international praised the growing standard of goalkeeping in the women’s game and spoke of her ambition to become one of the best in the world.

Hampton said: “The fact that two goalkeepers have won this award just shows how much goalkeeping in the women’s game has developed.

“I was asking Phallon where some of her other good saves were [in the video montage]! The double save against Man City with her reflexes just shows women’s goalkeeping has improved so much.

“There’s going to be so much scrutiny, but I’m here to just big it up, as they say, and just prove that women goalkeepers can do that, and really promote all the success that women keepers have had in the WSL and in the Championship.

“[Winning the Golden Glove] wasn’t something I was personally aiming for – I just wanted to win the WSL at the end of the long, hard season. But it’s a little add on and a little extra that is always a bonus.”

Hampton and Tullis-Joyce will meet again in one final match of the season, going head-to-head in the FA Cup final on Sunday 18 May.

After completing an unbeaten league campaign under manager Sonia Bompastor, who succeeded Emma Hayes last summer, the Blues are now targeting a domestic treble with a win at Wembley.

Chelsea beat Manchester City in March to lift the League Cup and have since gone on to win a sixth consecutive WSL title.

“Yeah, it’s exciting, but it’ll be tough,” Hampton added. “You’ve got the two Golden Glove winners going up against each other again for the third time this season.

“It will be a good challenge, and it’s always a close game when we play against Man United, and they’re obviously going there to keep the trophy.

“But I want to win the FA Cup for the first time. It’s a very prestigious trophy and everyone speaks about it so highly. So yeah, we’ll go and make sure we get that treble hopefully.”

She added: “It’s not really sunk in [that we went unbeaten] and I don’t think it will for a while.

“First and foremost, we just wanted to win the WSL and when we had that, we then used having an unbeaten season as our next drive and next focus to shift our mentality and keep our performances high.

“It just shows how hungry we are at Chelsea to go and win and create history.”