Chelsie Dawber (born 12 January 2000) is an Australian professional women's

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player who plays for

Adelaide United Adelaide United Football Club is a professional men's soccer club located in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club was one of the eight founding members of the A-League Men and have competed in it concurrently since its formation, u ...

in the

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. She has previously played for

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club

Chicago Red Stars Chicago Stars Football Club is an American professional soccer team based in the Chicago metropolitan area that competes in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). A founding member of the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league as the Chic ...

and had loan spells at

Adelaide City FC Adelaide City Football Club is a semi-professional soccer club based in Oakden, a north-eastern suburb of Adelaide. The club was a founding member of the now-defunct National Soccer League (NSL) and currently competes in the National Premier ...

and

IFK Norrköping Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional association football, football club based in Norrköping. The club is affiliated to Östergötlands Fotbollför ...

Club career

In 2016, Dawber suffered a serious head injury while playing indoor soccer. This injury kept her out of the game for one year.

Adelaide United

In 2017, Dawber joined her first club,

in the W-League. She made her debut on 3 November 2017 in a 2–1 loss against

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coming on as a substitute for

Emily Condon Emily Rose Condon (born 1 September 1998) is an Australian football (soccer) player for Adelaide United in the Australian W-League. She became the first women's player to achieve 100 appearances for Adelaide United in March 2024. Club career ...

. In the 2021/22 season, Dawber had a breakout year for the Reds, scoring 10 goals. This helped place Adelaide into their first ever finals campaign. Dawber finished sixth in the A-League Women's Julie Dolan Medal, an award given to the best performer throughout the season. She finished on 13 votes, with teammate Fiona Worts collecting the award.

Adelaide City

In 2020, Dawber scored a record 31 goals in 11 games for Adelaide City in the Women's National Premier League. Her team would go on to win the cup that season, but lose 2–1 to Metro United in the grand final. In 2021, Dawber won the Women's National Premier League most prestigious award, the Shirley Brown Medal with 23 votes.

Chicago Red Stars

On 6 April 2022, it was announced Dawber had signed for

. In November 2022, Dawber returned to

on loan for the

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season. In March 2023, Dawber was recalled early from her loan to be loaned to Swedish club

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for the

2023 Damallsvenskan The 2023 Damallsvenskan was the 36th season of the Swedish women's association football top division, Damallsvenskan. The league began on 24 March 2023, and ended on 11 November 2023. The league had an eight-week break between rounds 17 and 18 ( ...

season. In November 2023, Chicago declined to exercise the option in Dawber's contract.

Return to Adelaide United

In November 2023, Dawber returned to

, signing a contract until the end of the

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season.

International career

Australia U17

In 2014, Dawber was selected to represent Australia with the Mini Matildas

Australia U23

In July 2022, Dawber was selected to join the Australian U23 team in the Philippines for the AFC tournament.

Australia U20

On 16 March 2018, Dawber was selected to join the Young Matildas.

Club statistics

References

External links

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at Soccerway 2000 births Living people Adelaide United FC (women) players Women's association football midfielders Australian women's soccer players 21st-century Australian sportswomen Chicago Red Stars players National Women's Soccer League players Place of birth missing (living people) Australian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Soccer players from Adelaide Australian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Australian expatriate women's soccer players Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Damallsvenskan players IFK Norrköping (women) players {{Australia-women-footy-bio-stub