The year is ending and we’re only days away from the start of a new season in Liga MX Femenil. But wait… who were some of the best players in the league in 2025?
Greta Espinoza
The Tigres veteran has always been important for her club but with the passing seasons, she’s taking on even more responsibilities within the team. She has proven the consistency and has become one of the top defenders in the league.
Espinoza accumulated 2,017 minutes in 23 matches played, registered two assists and 133 recoveries.
Irene Guerrero
One of Club
América’s midfielders arrived in Coapa in 2024 and ever since, she has taken the league by storm. In Apertura 2025, she became integral to the Eagles’ work on the field and made fans fall in love with her.
Even though she’s more of a six, under coach Ángel Villacampa, she’s gained more confidence to display her game in the attack as well. Will she inherit the captain’s armband soon? It would not be a surprise.
Her personality on the field gives her that toughness that made her so valuable this year, where she played 21 games (1,759 minutes), registered eight assists and scored 11 goals.
Charlyn Corral
Liga Mx Femenil’s perennial top goalscorer is undoubtedly among the best for 2025. Pachuca’s most lethal forward has scored 22 goals and registered 10 assists in 17 games played (1,327 minutes) only in the Apertura 2025. If you want to know how many goals she scored in the year, you will have to add 21 more goals, which earned her the Golden Boot consecutive awards in 2025.
Cecilia Santiago
Tigres’ No.1 has been pivotal for the club’s first place in the table and yet another championship. She showed confidence and composure at goal, where she accumulated 1,800 minutes in 20 games played, made 68 saves and received only 15 goals against.
Aerial Chavarin
The former Pumas’ finisher was head-to-head with Charlyn Corral during the entire year to win the Golden Boot, finishing second in both tournaments. She scored 16 goals in 17 games in the Clausura 2025 and added 18 goals in the following tournament.
If it weren’t for Corral’s prowess in the finishing department, which gets better and better with every passing season, Chavarin would be attracting much more attention.
Montse Saldivar
At 19 years-old, she’s one of the best young prospects internationally. Just recently, she’s been listed as No. 6 in the IFFHS U-20 ranking. Additionally, she’s the only Mexican player in that list. Her speed, technique and dribbling in 1v1 situations have granted her call-ups for the Mexican senior national team.
Thembi Kgatlana
One of Tigres’ most lethal players, Thembi Kgatlana, has been the player who can change a game at any point, this year. Proof of that is the goal she scored in the final’s first leg, a goal that drew the game and sealed a 2-2, giving Tigres the momentum heading into the second leg. Even though that tally was amazing, what makes it even more amazing is the fact that she played that final with a muscle fiber rupture.
Her strength, speed, dribble and ball control in acceleration to pass defenders has never been seen in Liga MX Femenil – she’s one of the best ball carriers in the league.
Eugénie Le Sommer
Even though she’s only spent a semester in Mexico, she’s already been one of the best in the league and has contributed to the best season Toluca has had in the club’s history. Le Sommer has been featured in the best XI for the past season after scoring 13 goals and helping Toluca to finish 4th in the table and qualify for the playoffs as a result.
The duo with Faustine Robert in the attack, while being served by veteran Amandine Henry in the midfield, has helped Le Sommer adapt to the league quickly and shape the vision coach Patrice Lair had for the team this year.
Stephanie Ribeiro
The striker who arrived at Pumas in 2022 this year has written her name in indelible ink when, in August, she became one of the club’s top goalscorers.
The Portuguese international also contributed to a historic result last April when Pumas got its first win against Tigres, when she netted one of the two tallies that secured the victory. Added to that, the central midfielder scored eight goals in Apertura 2025, which placed her among the top goalscorers of the tournament.
Diana Ordóñez
After spending some seasons in the NWSL since 2022, with the North Carolina Courage and Houston Dash, Diana Ordóñez moved to Tigres at the end of last May.
Despite some criticism, she scored the lone goal in the playoff final’s second leg that granted the championship to the Amazonians. Additionally, her 10 goals scored in the regular season helped Tigres to finish first in the table and placed her among the top goal scorers in the league.
Sandra Paños
Although Tigres’ goalkeeper Cecilia Santiago got most of the highlights when we talk about the MVP in goal, Club América’s goalies’ work cannot be denied. Of course, the fact that América couldn’t win the Championship for yet another season has played a part in her not being chosen as the best goalkeeper in the league, but, again, her performances have made a difference to put her club among Mexico’s elite.
Sandra Paños has been making a difference in her role for the Eagles since she arrived in 2024 and it has been noticed. So much so that she was nominated for the 2025 FIFA FIFPRO World XI along with top goalkeepers such as Hannah Hampton, Ann-Katrin Berger, Cata Coll, Phallon Tullis-Joyce, among others.
