Jessie Fleming wins 2021 Canada Soccer Player of the Year award

Olympic champion Jessie Fleming from Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team has been named the 2021 Canada Soccer Player of the Year. Fleming won the national award for the first time after leading Canada in matches, starts and minutes played while also co-leading Canada in goals scored. She also helped Chelsea FC win the FA Women’s Super League, the FA Cup, the FA League Cup, and reach the Final of 2020-21 UEFA Champions League.
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​Fleming scored four goals for Canada in 2021, including penalty goals in the 1:0 victory over USA and the 1:1 equalizer against Sweden in the Olympic Final before Canada won 3-2 on kicks to capture the world title. The win over USA in the Olympic Semi-Final was Canada’s first victory against their Concacaf rivals in 20 years. Across the year for Canada, Fleming played in 17 matches, made 16 starts, featured in 1,481 minutes, and also helped Canada set a Women’s National Team record with a 12-match unbeaten streak from April through October.
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​In England, she helped Chelsea FC win League Cup in March, the FA Women’s Super League in May, and the FA Cup at Wembley Stadium in December. She scored her first league goal on 26 September and her first UEFA Champions League goal in 9 November.
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​Alongside winning Canada Soccer Player of the Month honours in March, October and November, Fleming won FA Women’s Super League Player of the Month honours in November. Through mid-December, she has scored three goals and two assists in her first nine matches of the 2021-22 FA Women’s Super League season with Chelsea FC in second place.
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​Fleming was honoured from a vote shared by Canadian media and Canadian coaches. The Canada Soccer Players of the Year Award is shared by winners from both the Women’s National Team and Men’s National Team, with Alphonso Davies the co-winner from the 2021 calendar year.
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​Fleming from London, Ontario was just 14 years old when she made her debut with Canada Soccer’s Youth National Teams in 2012. She was 15 years old when she made her international “A” debut for Canada on 15 December 2013, the second youngest Women’s National Team player in program history. She scored her first goal for Canada on 4 March 2015.
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​2021 CANADA SOCCER PLAYER AWARDS
​This marks the 29th edition of the Canada Soccer Player Awards. Amongst women’s footballers, Jessie Fleming finished first in voting ahead of runner up Stephanie Labbé and top-five finishers Ashley Lawrence, Christine Sinclair and Kadeisha Buchanan.
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​As part of the 2021 Canada Soccer Player Awards, Theo Corbeanu and Jade Rose were named Canada Soccer Youth International Players of the Year while Joshua Lemos was named the Canada Soccer Futsal Player of the Year.
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​Winners of the Canada Soccer Players of the Year Award
​2021 Alphonso Davies & Jessie Fleming
​2020 Alphonso Davies & Kadeisha Buchanan
​2019 Jonathan David & Ashley Lawrence
​2018 Alphonso Davies & Christine Sinclair
​2017 Atiba Hutchinson & Kadeisha Buchanan
​2016 Atiba Hutchinson & Christine Sinclair
​2015 Atiba Hutchinson & Kadeisha Buchanan
​2014 Atiba Hutchinson & Christine Sinclair
​2013 Will Johnson & Christine Sinclair
​2012 Atiba Hutchinson & Christine Sinclair
​2011 Dwayne De Rosario & Christine Sinclair
​2010 Atiba Hutchinson & Christine Sinclair
​2009 Simeon Jackson & Christine Sinclair
​2008 Julian de Guzman & Christine Sinclair
​2007 Dwayne De Rosario & Christine Sinclair
​2006 Dwayne De Rosario & Christine Sinclair
​2005 Dwayne De Rosario & Christine Sinclair
​2004 Paul Stalteri & Christine Sinclair
​2003 Pat Onstad & Charmaine Hooper
​2002 Jason deVos & Charmaine Hooper
​2001 Paul Stalteri & Andrea Neil
​2000 Craig Forrest & Christine Sinclair
​1999 Jim Brennan & Geraldine Donnelly
​1998 Tomasz Radzinski & Silvana Burtini
​1997 Mark Watson & Janine Helland
​1996 Paul Peschisolido & Geraldine Donnelly
​1995 Alex Bunbury & Charmaine Hooper
​1994 Craig Forrest & Charmaine Hooper
​1993 Alex Bunbury
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