Nigerian and Brighton & Hove Albion goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie has been awarded the Barclays Women’s Super League (WSL) Save of the Month for November.
The 24 year old, recently crowned 2025 Africa Women’s Goalkeeper of the Year, claimed the honour after a superb reflex save in Brighton’s 1–1 draw with Liverpool Women. In the buildup to halftime, she leapt acrobatically to tip a powerful long-range strike from Fuka Nagano onto the crossbar a moment widely praised as match-defining.
In doing so, Nnadozie edged out strong contenders including keepers from Aston Villa Women, Liverpool Women and Manchester City Women to secure the monthly award.
The award is seen as another marker of her growing influence in the WSL, following her move to Brighton from Paris FC Women in the summer.
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Editorial
In a league where goals thrill but saves sustain, Chiamaka Nnadozie’s November stop was far more than reflex and reaction it was a declaration. As Liverpool surged forward in search of a second, the ball bore down like a bullet yet Nnadozie, lithe, alert, unflinching, turned it away. In that split second, Brighton’s fate was skewed.
To call the award a just reward would be to understate the significance of what it represents. This is not merely a monthly honour, but a signal here stands a goalkeeper no longer learning the ropes, but defining them. For someone who traded the French game for England’s cauldron of pressure, it is validation. For Nigerian football long starved of global recognition beyond the men’s pitch it is pride.
Yet potential must never be confused with permanence. The WSL is a demanding theatre: tactical variety, physical intensity, relentless schedule. For Nnadozie, the challenge now is consistency. To follow one jaw-dropping save with another to cement a pattern rather than chase single moments.
If she manages that if the fingers, the reflex, the composure become habitual rather than heroic then this award will step beyond symbolism into substance. And Brighton, and Nigeria, will have more reason than ever to believe in her hands.
Did You Know?
- Chiamaka Nnadozie joined Brighton & Hove Albion in summer 2025 after playing for Paris FC Women making this her first season in the WSL.
- The save that won Nnadozie the award was made against a shot from Fuka Nagano a Japanese international and occurred during a 1–1 draw between Brighton and Liverpool on November 9, 2025.
- Nnadozie is also the current first-choice goalkeeper for the Nigerian women’s national team (the Super Falcons), and her WSL success adds to her growing profile as one of Africa’s top shot-stoppers.
- Before this award, she had been nominated for the WSL Save of the Month in October but missed out signalling that her November win is part of a rising trajectory rather than a one-off fluke.
- The WSL Save of the Month is decided via fan and expert votes, meaning Nnadozie not only delivered on the pitch she also captured the admiration of supporters and pundits alike across England and beyond.
