Having taken home the Player of the Season award for the first time last year, Kerr emerged as the overwhelming fans’ choice again for 2022/23, as she received 51 per cent of the votes in the online poll which determined the winner.

That was almost twice as many as the player who came second in the voting, Guro Reiten, who ended with 28 per cent. Lauren James was in third place with a 10 per cent share of the fan votes.

Kerr was handed her trophy, as well as being revealed as the winner of the vote among her team-mates for the Players’ Player of the Season, at a private event for the Chelsea Women players and staff on Saturday evening.

It completes another impressive campaign for the Australian international, who has already been named Women’s Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association for the second year running in addition to being nominated for the Women’s Super League Player of the Season award.

Kerr scored 29 goals as we competed for silverware on four fronts during a 2022/23 season which ended with Chelsea Women lifting two trophies, the Women’s FA Cup and Women’s Super League, as the Blues made it a third consecutive domestic Double.

An impressive six of those goals came in just four appearances in the triumphant FA Cup campaign, including the only one of the final as we defeated Manchester United 1-0 in front of a record crowd at Wembley.

Her tally also included four in one Champions League game, when we thrashed Vllaznia 8-0 en route to the semi-finals, and crucial strikes in our WSL campaign, including the late equaliser in the 1-1 draw with Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, plus in home and away wins over our closest challengers in the title fight, Manchester United.

That impressive contribution to another successful year for Chelsea Women, during which she made her 100th appearance for the Blues and reached the 50-goal landmark in the WSL, makes Kerr a worthy Player of the Season, and the first to receive the award for our women’s team in back-to-back campaigns.

In the same ceremony as Kerr was given her double honour, Magdalena Eriksson and Pernille Harder received the inaugural AllBright Award for driving the gender equality agenda.

The two Blues, who have bid an emotional farewell to Chelsea before departing the club this summer, became the first recipients when they were presented with the prize by AllBright CEO Viv Paxinos, who praised the pair as role models on and off the pitch.

Chelsea Women's Player of the Year winners

2015 – Eniola Aluko
2016 – Katie Chapman
2017 – Karen Carney
2018 – Fran Kirby
2019 – Erin Cuthbert
2020 – Bethany England
2021 – Fran Kirby
2022 – Sam Kerr
2023 – Sam Kerr