Melissa Lawley (born 28 April 1994) is an English football

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

who plays for Barclays WSL club

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...

. She has previously played for Bristol Academy,

Birmingham City Birmingham City Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. Sin ...

and Manchester City. Lawley has represented England at the under-17, under-19, under-20, under-23 and senior levels.

Club career

Lawley made her senior debut for Arsenal in their 6–0 Champions League win against FK Bobruichanka on 5 October 2011. Lawley signed for

in 2013 from Bristol Academy. In January 2016, Lawley signed a new contract with Birmingham. In December 2016, she signed for Manchester City. On 15 June 2019,

announced they had signed Lawley ahead of the 2019–20 season.

Career statistics

International goals

:. ''England score listed first, score column indicates score after each Lawley goal.''

Honours

Manchester City *

FA Women's Cup The Women's FA Challenge Cup Competition is the top annual cup tournament for women's clubs in English football. Founded in 1970, it has been named the WFA Cup, FA Women's Cup and now Women's FA Cup (Vitality Women's FA Cup for sponsorship reas ...

: 2016–17 Liverpool FC * FA Women's Championship: 2021-22

References

External links

Profile
at the Liverpool F.C. website
Profile
at the Football Association website * * Living people 1994 births England women's under-23 international footballers England women's international footballers English women's footballers Women's association football midfielders Women's Super League players Bristol City W.F.C. players Birmingham City W.F.C. players Manchester City W.F.C. players Sportspeople from Kidderminster Liverpool F.C. Women players {{England-women-footy-bio-stub