List of Women's National Basketball Association season steals leaders

The Women's National Basketball Association's (WNBA) steals title is awarded to the player with the highest steals per game (spg) average in a given season. The highest league-leading spg was Teresa Weatherspoon's 3.33 spg in 1998. The lowest league-leading spg was 2.21, achieved by Nykesha Sales and Yolanda Griffith in 2004.

Statistics accurate as of August 7, 2015


Year	Player	Pos.	Team	Games played	Total minutes	Minutes per game	Total steals	Steals per game
1997	Teresa Weatherspoon	G	New York Liberty	28	924	33.0	85	3.04
1998	Teresa Weatherspoon (2)	G	New York Liberty	30	1002	33.4	100	3.33
1999	Yolanda Griffith	C/F	Sacramento Monarchs	29	979	33.8	73	2.52
2000	Sheryl Swoopes	F/G	Houston Comets	31	1090	35.2	87	2.81
2001	Debbie Black	G	Miami Sol	32	946	29.6	82	2.56
2002	Tamika Catchings	F	Indiana Fever	32	1167	36.5	94	2.94
2003	Sheryl Swoopes (2)	F/G	Houston Comets	31	1084	35.0	77	2.48
2004	Yolanda Griffith (2)	C/F	Sacramento Monarchs	34	1031	30.3	75	2.21
2004	Nykesha Sales	G/F	Connecticut Sun	34	1096	32.2	75	2.21
2005	Tamika Catchings (2)	F	Indiana Fever	34	1174	34.5	90	2.65
2006	Tamika Catchings (3)	F	Indiana Fever	32	1071	33.5	94	2.94
2007	Tamika Catchings (4)	F	Indiana Fever	21	678	32.3	66	3.14
2008	Alexis Hornbuckle	G	Detroit Shock	34	747	22.0	79	2.32
2009	Tamika Catchings (5)	F	Indiana Fever	34	1084	31.9	99	2.91
2010	Tamika Catchings (6)	F	Indiana Fever	34	1068	31.4	77	2.26
2011	Sancho Lyttle	F	Atlanta Dream	22	577	26.2	52	2.36
2012	Angel McCoughtry	F	Atlanta Dream	24	718	29.9	60	2.50
2013	Tamika Catchings (7)	F	Indiana Fever	30	942	31.4	85	2.83
2014	Angel McCoughtry (2)	F	Atlanta Dream	31	970	31.3	74	2.39
2015	Sancho Lyttle (2)	F	Atlanta Dream	24	721	30.0	54	2.25
2016	Sancho Lyttle (3)	F	Atlanta Dream	19	572	30.1	39	2.05

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WNBA season steals leaders

1997: Weatherspoon 1998: Weatherspoon 1999: Griffith 2000: Swoopes 2001: Black 2002: Catchings 2003: Swoopes 2004: Griffith & Sales 2005: Catchings 2006: Catchings 2007: Catchings 2008: Hornbuckle 2009: Catchings 2010: Catchings 2011: Lyttle 2012: McCoughtry 2013: Catchings 2014: McCoughtry 2015: Lyttle 2016: Lyttle

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