League Leaders Who Led?

WNBA Single-Season Steals per Game Record Progression

Every season that raised the bar, and the leader in every season between.

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The WNBA single-season steals per game record is 3.3, set by Teresa Weatherspoon in 1998. It has stood for 28 years. The mark has been raised 1 times since 1997.

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Record Holders

2 marks since 1997
Year Player SPG Stood for
1998 Teresa Weatherspoon 3.3 still standing
1997 Teresa Weatherspoon 3.0 1 year

The earliest marks here are records only in the sense that nobody had done better yet. Season length, schedule and the rules themselves have all changed, so a figure from the 1870s is not comparable with a modern one and is not offered as though it were.

Every Season

31 seasons
Year Leader SPG
2025 Gabby Williams 2.3
2024 Arike Ogunbowale 2.1
2023 Jordin Canada 2.3
2022 Brittney Sykes 2.0
2021 Sylvia Fowles 1.8
2021 Brittney Sykes 1.8
2020 Alyssa Thomas 2.0
2019 Jordin Canada 2.3
2018 Maya Moore 1.7
2017 Alana Beard 2.1
2016 Tamika Catchings 1.8
2015 Angel McCoughtry 2.1
2014 Angel McCoughtry 2.4
2013 Tamika Catchings 2.8
2012 Sancho Lyttle 2.4
2011 Epiphanny Prince 2.3
2010 Tamika Catchings 2.3
2009 Tamika Catchings 2.9
2008 Alexis Hornbuckle 2.3
2007 Loree Moore 2.2
2006 Tamika Catchings 2.9
2005 Tamika Catchings 2.7
2004 Yolanda Griffith 2.2
2004 Nykesha Sales 2.2
2003 Sheryl Swoopes 2.5
2002 Tamika Catchings 2.9
2001 Debbie Black 2.6
2000 Sheryl Swoopes 2.8
1999 Yolanda Griffith 2.5
1998 Teresa Weatherspoon 3.3 new record
1997 Teresa Weatherspoon 3.0 new record