Harrogate hotshot Rachel Daly is to return to her roots on Sunday to open a cafe named after her.

Killinghall Nomads opened Nomads Daly Brew this year in honour of the England and Aston Villa striker, who started playing football for the junior club near Harrogate.

Now Daly, who is leading this season’s race to win the Women’s Super League Golden Boot, will return to officially open the cafe.

Sunday’s opening, which will take place at 12.30pm at the cafe at Killinghall Moor Community Park, gives local people a rare opportunity to meet the local superstar, who had advertised her attendance to her 327,000 Instagram followers.

England men’s manager Gareth Southgate and former England player turned pundit Micah Richards have been invited but it is not known if they will attend.

Daly has had a remarkable season since her summer transfer from Houston Dash to Aston Villa Women.

Her hat-trick in Aston Villa Women’s 5-0 defeat of Reading Women on Sunday catapulted her to the top of the list of leading goal scorers in the 2022/23 season.

Whoever finishes top is awarded the prestigious golden boot.

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With two games remaining, she has 20 WSL goals — two more than Manchester City’s Khadija Shaw.

Manchester United Women’s Leah Galton, who like Daly was born in Harrogate, is joint third with 10.

Nobody has ever scored more than 22 goals in a season since the golden boot was introduced in 2011.

Daly’s form up front has been a major factor in Aston Villa Women’s rise to fifth place in the WSL. They also reached the Women’s FA Cup semi-finals.

Two footballers who started out on pitches in Harrogate and Knaresborough will be bidding for a place in the Women’s FA Cup final this weekend.

Leah Galton and Rachel Daly have risen from local leagues to play as strikers for two of the biggest clubs in the country.

Galton, who began as a junior with Knaresborough Celtic and then played for Harrogate Railway, has banged in 29 goals for Manchester United Women since she joined them from Bayern Munich in 2018.

She is the joint third highest scorer in the Women’s Super League this season with eight goals.

Manchester United Women will line-up against Brighton & Hove Albion Women at 5.15pm today.

United, who have never won a major women’s trophy but are top of the Women’s Super League, will be fancied to beat lowly Brighton.

Tomorrow, Daly’s Aston Villa Women will take centre stage in the second semi-final against Chelsea Women at 2.15pm.

Daly, who started at Killinghall Nomads and won Euro 2022 with England last year, is second on this year’s leading scorer list with 13 goals.

If Manchester United and Villa win, it could result in the remarkable prospect of two local women playing up front in the cup final at Wembley.

Both semi-finals will be televised live on the BBC.

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Harrogate-born Leah Galton has won Barclays Women’s Super League Player of the Month for December.

Galton, who plays as a winger for Manchester United, picked up the award after scoring against Aston Villa and Manchester City last month.

The former Knaresborough Celtic and Harrogate Railway forward has found the net for United 23 times since signing in 2018.

It is the third time a Harrogate-born player has won Player of the Month in 2022 after Aston Villa’s Rachel Daly picked up the award for September and November.

Galton, who was a student at St John Fisher Catholic High School, has also represented Leeds United, Sky Blue FC and Bayern Munich in her career.

Meanwhile, United manager Marc Skinner also won Barclays Manager of the Month for the Women’s Super League.

Skinner oversaw an unbeaten month for the club in December, which saw them pick up four points.

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