Charisa Marie Casalda Lemoran (born September 21, 1998) is a Filipino professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a

midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in t ...

for

PFF Women's League The PFF Women's League (PFFWL) is the top-flight of women's association football in the Philippines. The league was launched by the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) in 2014, with its first season held from 2016 to 2017. It has featured vari ...

side Stallion Laguna and the

Philippines women's national football team The Philippines women's national football team represents the Philippines in international women's association football competitions. It is managed by the Philippine Football Federation (PFF), the sport's governing body in the country. The Ph ...

. She also represents the country at international level in

futsal Futsal is a variant of association football played between two teams of five players each on a court smaller than a football pitch. Its rules are based on the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game of association football, and i ...

Career

Youth

Prior to college, Lemoran represented her hometown of San Carlos winning several titles in

Negros Occidental Negros Occidental (; ), officially the Province of Negros Occidental (; ), is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Negros, Negros Island. Its capital is the city of Bacolod, of which it is geographically s ...

provincial tournaments.

College

Charisa Marie Casalda Lemoran plays for the University of Santo Tomas (UST) women's team which competes in

University Athletic Association of the Philippines The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), established in 1938, is an athletic association of eight Metro Manila universities in the Philippines. The eight-member schools are Adamson University (AdU), Ateneo de Manila Univ ...

(UAAP)

Football Championship The English Football League Championship, known simply as the Championship and for sponsorship purposes as Sky Bet Championship, is a professional association football league in England and Wales. Contested by 24 clubs, it is the highest divis ...

. In 2016, Lemoran debuted for UST as a first year student in

UAAP Season 78 UAAP Season 78 was the 2015–2016 athletic year of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). It opened on September 5, 2015, almost two months after the usual July opening of the league during previous seasons, due to the shi ...

scoring at least three goals. UST also played at the

, which featured both club and collegiate sides. In the 2016–17 season she was named as Best Midfielder. In 2017, at

UAAP Season 79 UAAP Season 79 (also known as UAAP LXXIX) is the 2016–2017 athletic year of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). This season, hosted by the University of Santo Tomas officially opened on September 3, 2016. The opening ...

, she led her school by scoring 11 of 16 goals scored by UST in the entire season. Her feat lead to the return of UST in the final where it lost to the

De La Salle University De La Salle University (), also referred to as DLSU, De La Salle or La Salle, is a private, Catholic coeducational research university run by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools with main campus in Taft Avenue, Malate, Man ...

. She was named part of Mythical XI team for the season along with three other teammates. Lemoran was named as the Most Promising Player at the

Dumaguete Dumaguete, officially the City of Dumaguete (; ; ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, component city and capital of the Provinces of the Philippines, province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it h ...

–

Negros Oriental Negros Oriental (; ), officially the Province of Negros Oriental (; ), is a province in the Philippines located in the Negros Island. Its capital is the city of Dumaguete, one of the two regional centers of Negros Island Region, with the other b ...

-hosted 3rd Pinay in Action Cup, an invitational collegiate tournament UST joined and won. She managed to help her team reach the final again in

UAAP Season 80 UAAP Season 80 was the 2017–18 athletic year of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). This season was hosted by the Far Eastern University. The eight member universities of the UAAP competed in the league's 28 events f ...

in 2018 and faced De La Salle once again by scoring seven goals. Lemoran was instrumental in scoring an equalizing goal of the match, passing the ball to Shelah Cadag who scored the goal but ultimately lost that match against De La Salle which ended in a 1–2 defeat.

Club

Lemoran joined Kaya–Iloilo on November 5, 2022.

International

Lemoran received her first call up to

in 2017 and was set to play in the

2017 Southeast Asian Games The 2017 Southeast Asian Games (), officially known as the 29th Southeast Asian Games, or the 29th SEA Games, and commonly known as Kuala Lumpur 2017, were a Southeast Asian multi-sport event that took place from 19 to 30 August 2017 in Kuala ...

. She was not initially included in the training pool in July 2017 but the injury of some players led to her inclusion. She was also considered to form the Philippine squad which participated at the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifiers but had to beg off due to academic reasons. She also played in the

2018 AFF Women's Championship The 2018 AFF Women's Championship was the tenth edition of the AFF Women's Championship, an international women's football tournament organised by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF). The tournament was hosted by Indonesia from 30 June to 13 July ...

International goals

:''Scores and results list Philippines's goal tally first.''

Honors

Kaya–Iloilo *

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

PFF Women's Cup The PFF Women's Cup is the national women's football cup of the Philippines organized by the Philippine Football Federation. History The inaugural edition was launched in 2014 by the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) and was contested by 10 ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

; runner-up:

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

Individual * PFF Women's League Best Midfielder: 2016–17,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lemoran, Charisa Living people Filipino women's footballers 21st-century Filipino sportswomen Philippines women's international footballers Women's association football midfielders University of Santo Tomas alumni University Athletic Association of the Philippines women's footballers 1998 births Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games People from San Carlos, Negros Occidental SEA Games competitors for the Philippines Kaya F.C.–Iloilo (women) players PFF Women's League players Stallion Laguna F.C. (women) players