Samantha May Kerr (born on 10 September 1993) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a forward for Chelsea in the FA Women's Super League and the Australia ladies public soccer group (the Matildas), which she likewise commands.

Starting at 2021, Kerr is the unequaled driving scorer in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in the United States and until the 2020–21 season, held the record in the Australian W-League.

She is the main female football player to have won the Golden Boot in three unique associations and three distinct mainlands – the W-League (Australia) in 2017–18 and 2018–19, the NWSL (United States) in 2017, 2018, 2019, and the FAWSL (England) in 2020–21. 

Kerr at last endorsed with Chelsea, winning consecutive Women's Super League titles in her initial two seasons with the club, just as aiding the group arrive at the UEFA Women's Champion's League last without precedent for 2021. 

She is the solitary Australian ladies' footballer to be named to the waitlist for the Ballon d'Or, having been designated in all versions of the honor from 2018-2021. 

Chelsea, 2019–present 

On 13 November 2019, Chelsea reported Kerr would join the club for the second 50% of the 2019–20 FA WSL season on a more than a long-term contract.

Kerr made her Chelsea debut against Reading on 5 January 2020 and scored her first objective fourteen days after the fact against Arsenal.

She won her first prize with Chelsea in their 2–1 success over Arsenal in the 2019–20 Continental League Cup Final.

Chelsea proceeded to win the 2019–20 association title despite an abbreviated timetable because of COVID-19, given a focuses per-match premise. 

At the 2020 Women's FA Community Shield on 29 August 2020, Kerr made a progression of objective scoring openings before being subbed in Chelsea's 2–0 success over Manchester City.

She scored a full go-around in the 6–0 success over Bristol City with all due respect of the Continental League Cup title, and lead goalscoring for Chelsea during the season, eventually assisting her with winning her subsequent Women's Super League title during the 2020–21 FA WSL season.

She scored 21 objectives in 22 games, winning the Golden Boot, making her the principal player to win it in three distinct associations.

That equivalent season, Kerr helped Chelsea arrive at the finals of the Champion's League interestingly, before being crushed by Barcelona. 

During the 2021-2022 WSL season, Kerr kept displaying fine structure and was assigned for the Barclays Player of the Month for September.

On the sixteenth of November 2021, Kerr marked a long-term contract expansion, keeping her at the club till the summer of 2024, saying "I can't see myself going elsewhere on the planet or departing Europe, having what I have at Chelsea."

The next week, Kerr scored the triumphant objective in Chelsea's Champion's League bunch stage match against Servette, and scored her third association full go-around, against Birmingham City, inside 26 minutes, just as giving the help to colleague Fran Kirby's 100th Chelsea objective, with Kerr commending her accomplishment with her mark reverse somersault, whenever she first performed it at Chelsea's home ground of Kingsmeadow. 

2020 Olympic Games, Tokyo 

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Australia was gathered with the United States, Sweden, and New Zealand. Kerr scored in the initial game, wherein they beat New Zealand 2–1.

In the second game against Sweden, Kerr scored support however missed a punishment and wound up losing 4–2.

Advancing to the quarter-finals against Great Britain, Kerr scored an 89th-moment equalizer to see the game into additional time, before getting support to assist Australia with protecting triumph with a 4-3 scoreline and progress to the semi-finals against Sweden.

During this match, Kerr scored an objective that was disputably denied, and Australia, at last, lost by 1 objective to nothing.

In the bronze decoration match against the United States, she scored an objective in a 4–3 loss, to turn into the unsurpassed top scorer for the Matildas, outperforming Lisa De Vanna with 48 objectives. 

Post Olympics 

On 21 September, in their first match after their Olympics rout, and Australia's very first match against the Republic of Ireland, Kerr won her 100th cap, the tenth Matilda in history to do as such.

She got back with Australia to play two amicable matches against Brazil on home soil in October, the initial time doing as such since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and scored her 49th worldwide objective in the subsequent match. 

Individual life 

Kerr is right now involved with American soccer player Kristie Mewis. She was beforehand involved with previous Perth Glory and Chicago Red Stars partner, Nikki Stanton. 

An ally of the West Coast Eagles alongside her sibling Daniel Kerr, she was made the club's main ticket holder in 2019 and 2020.