Kathryn Anne "Kate" Gill (born 10 December 1984) is an Australian former

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

player. She played the majority of her career in Australia, in the

Women's National Soccer League The Women's National Soccer League (WNSL) was Australia's top women's soccer league. Originally known as the Ansett Australia Summer Series for sponsorship reasons, the WNSL began in 1996 consisting of six clubs and continued through until 200 ...

(WNSL) and the W-League. She also played in Sweden in the

Damallsvenskan The (; ), known as OBOS for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is one of the best women's leagues in the world, and was founded in 1988. The division consists of a league of 14 teams. From 2013, t ...

. Between 2004 and 2015, Gill played 86 matches for the

Australia women's national soccer team The Australia women's national soccer team is overseen by the governing body for soccer in Australia, Football Australia, which is currently a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the regional ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) s ...

. She is a striker.

Early life

Born in

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

and schooled in

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

, Gill graduated from

Hunter Valley Grammar School Hunter Valley Grammar School (abbreviated as HVGS) is an independent secular co-educational early learning, primary, and secondary day school, located in Ashtonfield, a suburb of Maitland, New South Wales, Australia. It is named after the Hu ...

in 2002.

Club career

Gill played for the Northern NSW Pride in the Australian Women's National Soccer League. In 2008, Gill played for the

Newcastle Jets Newcastle United Jets Football Club, commonly known as Newcastle Jets, is an Australian professional soccer club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier competition, the A-League, under licence from the Australi ...

in the W-League, before moving to

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

where she played with

Sunnanå SK Sunnanå SK is a football club from Skellefteå, Sweden who in 2024 plays in Elitettan, the second highest division of women's football in Sweden. The club was established in 1939 and the women's division was added in 1974. Sunnanå has played man ...

Skellefteå Skellefteå (, locally ) is a Cities in Sweden, city in Västerbotten County, Sweden, with a population of 36,388. It is the seat of Skellefteå Municipality, which had 77,322 inhabitants in 2024. The city is historically industrial, with mining ...

in the

league during 2009. In the upcoming winter, she moved to LdB Malmö for the 2010 season.

International career

Gill made her debut for

in 2004 against

Brisbane Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a ...

. As of July 2014 she has played 83 times and scored 40 goals for the ''Matildas''.

Post-football career

In 2016, Gill announced her retirement from playing. In 2020, Gill became a joint chief executive of the

Professional Footballers Australia The Professional Footballers Australia (PFA), formerly the Australian Soccer Players' Association, is an Australian trade union affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and FIFPRO that represents Professional sports, professional ...

, the Australia soccer players union.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Australia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Gill goal.''

Honours

LdB FC Malmö *

: 2010 Perth Glory * W-League Premiership:

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

Australia U20 *

OFC U-20 Women's Championship The OFC U-19 Women's Championship (previously the OFC U-20 Women's Championship or OFC Women's Under 20 Qualifying Tournament) is a football tournament held every two years to decide the only qualification spot for the Oceania Football Confederati ...

: 2002 Australia *

AFC Women's Asian Cup The AFC Women's Asian Cup (formerly known as the AFC Women's Championship) is a quadrennial competition in women's football for national teams which belong to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It is the oldest women's international football ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Individual * AFC Women's Player of the Year: 2010 * W-League Golden Boot:

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gill, Kate 1984 births Living people Australian women's soccer players Australian people of New Zealand descent Newcastle Jets FC (women) players Perth Glory FC (women) players Sunnanå SK players AIK Fotboll (women) players Linköpings FC players Damallsvenskan players Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Australia women's international soccer players 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players Australian expatriate women's soccer players Australian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden FC Rosengård players Women's association football forwards Association footballers from Auckland Sportswomen from New South Wales Soccer players from New South Wales 21st-century Australian sportswomen