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Siobhan Chamberlain (16057622952)
Siobhan Rebecca Chamberlain (born 15 August 1983) is an English sports pundit, commentator, and former professional Association football, footballer who last played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Manchester United W.F.C., Manchester United. She joined Manchester United in 2018 after playing for Liverpool F.C. Women, Liverpool. Before joining Liverpool in December 2015, she had been at Notts County Ladies F.C., Notts County on Loan (sports), loan from Arsenal W.F.C., Arsenal. Chamberlain previously played at the top club level for Chelsea F.C. Women, Chelsea, Fulham L.F.C., Fulham, Birmingham City W.F.C., Birmingham City and Bristol City W.F.C., Bristol Academy, as well as for North American USL W-League (1995–2015), W-League club Vancouver Whitecaps FC (women), Vancouver Whitecaps. She has represented the England women's national football team on 50 occasions since her debut in 2004. This included being part of the squad at three FIFA Women's World Cups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England Women's National Football Team
The England women's national football team, nicknamed the Lionesses, has been governed by the Football Association (FA) since 1993, having been previously administered by the Women's Football Association (WFA). England played its first international match in November 1972 against Scotland women's national football team, Scotland. Although most national football teams represent a sovereign state, England is permitted by FIFA statutes, as a member of the United Kingdom's Home Nations, to maintain a national side that competes in all major tournaments, with the exception of the Football at the Summer Olympics, Women's Olympic Football Tournament. England have qualified for the FIFA Women's World Cup six times, reaching the quarter-finals in 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup, 1995, 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2007 and 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2011, finishing fourth in 2019 Women's World Cup, 2019, third in 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2015 and as runners-up in 2023 FIFA Women's Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Women's Championship
The UEFA European Women's Championship, also called the UEFA Women's Euro, held every four years and one year after the men's UEFA European Championship first held in 1984, is the main competition in women's association football between national teams of the UEFA confederation. The competition is the women's equivalent of the UEFA European Championship. The reigning champions are England, who won their home tournament in 2022. The most successful nation in the history of the tournament is Germany, with eight titles. History In 1957 in West Berlin, a European Championship was staged by the International Ladies Football Association. Four teams, representing West Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and the eventual winners, England, played the tournament at the Poststadion, at a time when women's football teams were officially forbidden by the German Football Association, a ban that was widely defied. The FICF, which eventually merged into the Italian Football Federation, organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carly Telford
Carly Mitchell Telford (born 7 July 1987) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Club career Telford joined Leeds United Ladies in 2007 from relegated club Sunderland. In May of that year she had turned out for Charlton Athletic in a tournament in Spain, but Charlton disbanded their women's team shortly afterwards. At Leeds, Telford was named player of the match in the 2008 FA Women's Cup final, after an impressive performance in Leeds' 4–1 defeat to Arsenal. In summer 2010, Telford was called into the England squad as an unattached player, having left Leeds Carnegie. Matt Beard signed her for Chelsea Ladies ahead of the inaugural 2011 FA WSL season. In October 2012 it was announced that Telford would join Australian club Perth Glory for the 2012–13 winter season. Telford left Chelsea after three years in December 2013, signing for Notts County ahead of the 2014 FA WSL season. There she was reunited with her former Leeds coach Rick Passmoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Byrne
Emma Anne Byrne (born 14 June 1979) is an Irish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. She played for the Republic of Ireland on a record 134 occasions and served as captain of the team. She spent almost 17 years with Arsenal before joining Brighton & Hove Albion in January 2017. Club career Byrne started playing as a schoolgirl for Leixlip United before moving to as a goalkeeper to St Patrick's Athletic in the Dublin Women's Soccer League and then agreed to join professional Danish Elitedivisionen club Fortuna Hjørring after completing her schooling. After spending one year in Denmark, Byrne returned to Ireland because she was homesick and took a job as a secretary with the Health Board. When Arsenal Ladies' goalkeeper Lesley Higgs was injured, the club's Irish midfielder Ciara Grant alerted Arsenal manager Vic Akers to her friend Byrne's availability. Byrne joined Arsenal in January 2000 and quickly became their first choice goalkeeper. She won a domestic treble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siobhan Chamberlain (16057622952)
Siobhan Rebecca Chamberlain (born 15 August 1983) is an English sports pundit, commentator, and former professional Association football, footballer who last played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Manchester United W.F.C., Manchester United. She joined Manchester United in 2018 after playing for Liverpool F.C. Women, Liverpool. Before joining Liverpool in December 2015, she had been at Notts County Ladies F.C., Notts County on Loan (sports), loan from Arsenal W.F.C., Arsenal. Chamberlain previously played at the top club level for Chelsea F.C. Women, Chelsea, Fulham L.F.C., Fulham, Birmingham City W.F.C., Birmingham City and Bristol City W.F.C., Bristol Academy, as well as for North American USL W-League (1995–2015), W-League club Vancouver Whitecaps FC (women), Vancouver Whitecaps. She has represented the England women's national football team on 50 occasions since her debut in 2004. This included being part of the squad at three FIFA Women's World Cups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in Microblogging, short posts commonly known as "Tweet (social media), tweets" (officially "posts") and Like button, like other users' content. The platform also includes direct message, direct messaging, video and audio calling, bookmarks, lists, communities, a chatbot (Grok (chatbot), Grok), job search, and Spaces, a social audio feature. Users can vote on context added by approved users using the Community Notes feature. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams, and was launched in July of that year. Twitter grew quickly; by 2012 more than 100 million users produced 340 million daily tweets. Twitter, Inc., was based in San Francisco, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FA Women's Cup
The Women's FA Challenge Cup 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 (currently known as the Adobe Women's FA Cup for sponsorship reasons). Designed as an equivalent to the FA Cup in men's football, the competition began in 1970–71 as the Mitre Challenge Trophy, organised by the Women's Football Association (WFA). There were 71 entrants, including teams from Scotland and Wales. The WFA ran the competition for the first 23 editions, during which time Southampton won the cup eight times. The Football Association (FA) began administering English women's football in mid-1993. Arsenal holds the record for most titles overall, having won fourteen times. The current cup holders are Chelsea, who defeated Manchester United 3–0 in the 2025 final to win their sixth FA Cup title. Name The competition, founded in 1970, was sponsored as the '' Mitre Challenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FA Women's Super League
The Women's Super League (WSL), also known as the Barclays Women's Super League for sponsorship reasons, and formerly the FA WSL, is a professional association football league and the highest level of women's football in England. Currently operated by WSL Football, the league was established in 2010 by the Football Association and features twelve fully professional teams. The league replaced the FA Women's Premier League National Division as the highest level of women's football in England, with eight teams competing in the inaugural 2011 season. In the WSL's first two seasons, there was no relegation from the division. The WSL discarded the winter football season for six years, between 2011 and 2016, playing through the summer instead (from March until October). Since 2017–18, the WSL has operated as a winter league running from September to May, as was traditional before 2011. From 2014 to 2017–18, the Women's Super League consisted of two divisions – FA WSL 1 and FA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol Academy W
Bristol () is a cathedral city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. Built around the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. The county is in the West of England combined authority area, which includes the Greater Bristol area ( eleventh most populous urban area in the United Kingdom) and nearby places such as Bath. Bristol is the second largest city in Southern England, after the capital London. Iron Age hillforts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities, after London, in tax receipts. A major port, Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004–05 FA Women's Premier League
The 2004–05 FA Women's Premier League season was the 14th season of the FA Women's Premier League. National Division The FA Women's Premier League National Division, National Division season started on 15 August 2004 and ended on 7 May 2005. Arsenal L.F.C., Arsenal were the defending champions, while Liverpool L.F.C., Liverpool and Bristol City W.F.C. (1990s), Bristol City entered as the promoted teams from the 2003–04 FA Women's Premier League, 2003–04 Northern and Southern Divisions. Arsenal won their second consecutive league title, and seventh overall. Table Results Top goalscorers Northern Division The FA Women's Premier League Northern Division, Northern Division season began on 15 August 2004 and ended on 2 May 2005. Table Results Top goalscorers Southern Division The FA Women's Premier League Southern Division, Southern Division season began on 15 August 2004 and ended on 24 April 2005. Cardiff City Ladies F.C., Cardiff City qualified for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Fletcher
Josephine Julia Fletcher (born 31 December 1980) is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Watford. She played at full international level for England. She hails from Malpas, Cheshire and attended Bishop Heber High School. Club career Fletcher joined Tranmere Rovers Ladies as an under–18 player. In summer 1998 she left FA Women's Premier League champions Everton for local rivals Liverpool. Fletcher spent the US 2001 and 2002 seasons playing for Oregon State in the Pac-10 league, playing 39 times In January 2003 she was selected as available to be drafted at the 2003 Women's United Soccer Association player draft. On returning to England, she re-joined Tranmere Rovers Ladies, where she was coached by Tranmere Rovers' keeper John Achterberg. She moved on to Doncaster Rovers Belles, leaving them to join Birmingham City in June 2004. She left City on joining the Army in 2005, but returned after initial training in October 2005. In the 2006 close season, Fletc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Women's Champions League
The UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–2009), is a European women's association football competition. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA. The competition was first played in 2001–02 under the name ''UEFA Women's Cup'', and renamed the Champions League for the 2009–10 edition. The most significant changes in 2009 were the inclusion of runners-up from the top eight ranked nations, a one-off final as opposed to the two-legged finals in previous years, and – until 2018 – playing the final in the same city as the men's UEFA Champions League final. In the 2021–22 season, the competition proper included a group stage for the first time in the Women's Champions League era, which will evolve into a league phase from the 2025–26 season onward. Lyon is the most successful club in the competition's history, winning the title eight times, including five consecutive titles fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
