Women’s Footballer of the Year contender Hampton

After assisting England to win Euro 2025, Hannah Hampton was honored as the best female goalkeeper in the world at the 2025 Ballon d’Or ceremony.

Chelsea won the title last year and finished the season with an outstanding unbeaten Women’s Super League record.

Hampton has taken up the position of Mary Earps’ number one in England. Before her international retirement, she frequently surpassed Earps and has demonstrated her worth to Sarina Wiegman’s side.

She saved two penalties in their quarter-final victory over Sweden and saved another two when Spain defeated Spain in the final.

Along with Phallon Tullis-Joyce from Manchester United, she also had the WSL golden glove with her 13 league victories for Chelsea.

Hampton on overcoming the odds because he was born with a serious eye condition:

No one or even the doctors would have predicted that your national goalkeeper had a squint and had no depth perception, according to me. I don’t believe it would have ever been thought up by people as being possible.

“But I believe I’ve just always tried to refute doctors’ claims that I’m not permitted to play professional sports, and I only wanted to do what made me happy and make people smile.”

On “psychological monsters” playing for “Chelsea:

“I believe that Chelsea is a club of mentality monsters just because of how it operates.” They want to win every aspect of the club, from the owner to the players to the backroom staff to the coach. They merely desire to succeed in every way. You can’t help but feel their feelings and pursue their goals. I want to bring trophies to this amazing club and help them succeed as much as I can in this game.

Regarding penalty shootouts for Euro 2025:

My back was under pressure. But I wasn’t thinking about that at the time. I was considering doing it for the girls. I had to hold still in my own 18-yard box for 120 minutes while they ran around. It almost seemed like a way to express gratitude to them for surviving those penalty shootouts and maintaining their defensive standing.

Regarding the words of wisdom she would offer to her younger self:

Hampton kept 13 clean sheets in 22 games as Chelsea’s unbeaten Women’s Super League campaign.

You might have missed a crucial component of Hampton’s technique that allowed her to save as many penalties as she did thanks to her shootout performances, which ensured England won the Euros this summer.

Given her preparation using data analysis, Hampton was aware of which side she would eventually choose. The key to Hampton’s success came from placing her foot the closest to the side she was diving to as the opponent began to advance.

Some keepers use their inward-pointing to force their way out before crashing into the goal’s corner. Keepers can quickly descend because of this, but in reality, the foot’s inward movement leads the keeper to the goal’s corner. They must travel a greater distance as a result.