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Haiti’s Melchie Dumornay is as soon as once more on the shortlist for Concacaf Ladies’s Participant of the Yr, alongside stars from the U.S., Mexico and Jamaica.
She is eyeing a historic repeat win after being awarded the highest prize final season.
Haitian soccer star Melchie Daëlle “Corventina” Dumornay has been shortlisted for the 2024-2025 Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Affiliation Soccer (Concacaf) Ladies’s Participant of the Yr Award, giving her an opportunity to defend the title she gained final season.
Dumornay, 21, headlines an inventory of six nominees that additionally contains Charlyn Corral (Mexico/Pachuca), Emily Fox (USA/Arsenal), Lindsey Heaps (USA/OL Lyon), Jacqueline Ovalle (Mexico/Orlando Satisfaction), and Khadija Shaw (Jamaica/Manchester Metropolis).
The Lyon midfielder loved one other standout marketing campaign in Europe and the area. She was named UEFA Ladies’s Champions League Younger Participant of the Season, made the Greatest XI, and scored six objectives within the match. In France, she helped Olympique Lyonnes win the French league title, ending because the division’s second-highest scorer with 15 objectives. For Haiti, Dumornay remained an important power, carrying the nationwide staff in Concacaf and FIFA competitions.
The Concacaf Participant of the Yr program, as introduced Monday, acknowledges the highest female and male gamers within the area. Nominees had been chosen primarily based on efficiency statistics and skilled enter. To qualify, gamers should have competed for a Concacaf member nationwide staff or in a Concacaf/FIFA-sanctioned top-division membership competitors.
Winners might be determined by a weighted voting system:
- 41 votes from nationwide staff coaches. It’s one vote for every Concacaf Member Affiliation’s Ladies’s Nationwide Staff Head Coach.
- 41 votes from nationwide staff captains—one vote for every Concacaf Member Affiliation’s Ladies’s Nationwide Staff captain.
- 9 votes from regional media, with every of the 9 consultant members of the media from the Concacaf area counting as one vote.
- Fan voting counts for as much as 9 votes, with the participant who receives probably the most fan votes incomes 4 votes within the general tally. The second-place participant will get three votes, and the third-place participant will get two, no matter what number of votes followers forged on-line.
Fan ballots will be forged on-line at www.concacaf.com/awards, with voting closing on Sept. 30, 2025.
If Dumornay, who can also be nominated for one in every of soccer’s greatest honors, the Ballon d’Or this yr, wins, she is going to grow to be one of many few gamers — male or feminine — to seize back-to-back Concacaf Participant of the Yr titles. Final yr, she turned the primary Haitian lady to earn the glory, a milestone celebrated throughout Haiti and the Haitian diaspora.
Her major competitors this yr contains Shaw, who gained a number of Participant of the Yr honors in England’s Ladies’s Tremendous League, and Fox, who earned Olympic gold with the U.S.
The awards program additionally options Concacaf Males’s Participant of the Yr and a Aim of the Yr class, the latter decided solely by followers.
The participant in every class with probably the most votes out of the 100 out there might be named Concacaf Males’s Participant of the Yr and Concacaf Ladies’s Participant of the Yr.
Whereas voting begins Sept. 15 and concludes Sept. 30, the regional soccer governing physique has not but introduced the precise date by which the winner might be revealed.