Lisa Catherine Evans (born 21 May 1992) is a Scottish

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who plays for Glasgow City in the

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, and for the Scotland national team. Operating as a winger or full-back, she began her senior career at Glasgow City, then played for

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and

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in Germany's

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, and for

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and

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in the English

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, winning the domestic league title in all three nations.

Early life

Born in

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, to Richard and Kate, Lisa Evans played as a youth with local team St Johnstone Women (where she played alongside future international teammate

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Club career

Glasgow City

Evans joined

(SWPL) powerhouse side Glasgow City in August 2008. She originally started to play for the club's reserve team which won the second division with a 100% record, making her first team debut in 2009. Evans was also among the first scholarship recipients to the Scottish FA's National Women's Football Academy at the

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, where she studied Sports Science. During her time at Glasgow City, the club won the Scottish Women's Premier League four times (2009 to 2012), the

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twice (2009 and 2012) and the

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twice (2009 and 2011). Evans also won the Glasgow City 2011 Young Player of the Year award. She was also part of the Glasgow side which reached the last sixteen stage of the

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for the first time, which provided an idea of her talents to a wider audience. Evans left Glasgow having scored 46 goals in 39 regular season games.

Turbine Potsdam

In February 2012, German

champions

invited Evans for a trial, after spotting her in their 17–0

aggregate win over Glasgow City. On 12 June 2012, it was revealed that she had signed a professional contract with Potsdam. In December 2012 Evans's contract was extended by a further two years; at the time of the extension, Turbine's veteran coach

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described being impressed by the start Evans had made: "It means we're able to secure the long-term services of a player who has developed a lot over the last few weeks and months. Lisa has fitted in really well to the philosophy of the club as a footballer and as a person, and is an enormous benefit to the team." During her first year at Potsdam in 2012–13, Evans was part of a team that was runner-up in both the

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and the

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, and they were Pokal finalists again in 2014–15. She left Potsdam having played 41 regular season games, scoring 7 goals in the process.

Bayern Munich

In April 2015, Evans announced that she had signed a three-year contract with Turbine's Frauen-Bundesliga rivals

, to begin the following season. Evans went on to win the 2015–16

with Bayern, as well as finishing runners-up the following year. The team also reached the Round of 32 in the

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and the quarter-finals of the

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. During her time at Bayern, Evans made 32 regular season appearances, scoring twice.

Arsenal

On 29 June 2017, Evans signed for

. Due to injuries and competition for places in her usual playing position, coach

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sometimes deployed Evans as a full-back: "One week I find myself on the left wing and then the other I find myself at right-back but it's something I've really enjoyed. It's made me an all-around better player." She extended her contract with the

club in December 2018. During her first season with Arsenal in 2017–18, Evans played 18 regular season games, scoring two goals, went on to win the WSL Cup and was a

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finalist. Her second season with the club saw her play another 18 regular season games and help Arsenal to a runner-up position in the WSL Cup and finish as champions in the

. Evans played her 50th match with the club overall on 31 March 2019 against

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; Arsenal won the game 1–0 and as a result qualified for the Champions League for the first time since 2014. On 12 September 2019, Evans scored in the first-leg of a Champions League tie against

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. On 26 September 2020, Evans scored a hat-trick in the

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against North London rivals

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Loan to West Ham United

Evans moved on loan to

in August 2021.

Later career

Evans signed for West Ham United permanently on 17 June 2022. On 25 January 2024, she signed for Bristol City. Intended to run until May 2025, the deal was cut short and she returned to Scotland and Glasgow City in July 2024.

International career

Evans made her debut with the Scottish national team against

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in October 2011. In February 2012 Evans scored her first international goal in a 5–1 friendly win over

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. She was part of the squad which narrowly failed to qualify for the

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with a late defeat in the qualification play-off. Evans scored three goals for Scotland during UEFA qualifying for the

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. Scotland finished second in their qualifying group and advanced to the UEFA play-offs where they were eliminated by the

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. In 2017, Scotland qualified for the

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for the first time ever. Evans was named to the Scotland squad for Euro 2017 and appeared in all three group games. This was followed by qualifying directly for the

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after winning their group. Evans was selected for the Scottish world cup squad on 15 May 2019. In Scotland's opening World Cup match against rivals England, Evans provided the assist to

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, who scored Scotland's first World Cup goal.

Personal life

Evans was in a relationship with former Bayern Munich and Arsenal teammate

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, an international with

, for six years. In November 2021, Evans joined the charity movement

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, committing 1% of her salary to community organisations working with young people. Evans said she and Miedema "want to be happy and constructive human beings off the pitch. Common Goal is the perfect platform to create change through football in a collective, sustainable way." In 2021 on the We Play Strong Channel, she said that she was studying part-time in Sport, Health and Fitness via an online course.

Scottish FA Girls Soccer Centres

The

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launched dedicated Girls' Soccer Centres across Scotland before Euro 2017 to increase participation in football among primary school-aged girls across Scotland. Evans was appointed as an ambassador for the East Region covering

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, and her hometown area of

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We Play Strong

Evans is one of UEFA's official ambassadors for ''#WePlayStrong'', a social media and

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campaign which was launched in 2018. The campaign's "...aim is to promote women's football as much as we can and to make people aware of women's football, really," Evans explains. "The ultimate goal is to make football the most played sport by females by 2020. So it's a UEFA initiative to get more women and girls playing football, whether they want to be professional or not." The series, which also originally included professional footballers

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and now also includes

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Shanice van de Sanden Shanice Janice van de Sanden (born 2 October 1992) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga MX Femenil club Toluca and the Netherlands national team. Club career Her career started at amateur club VVIJ in IJsselstein, ...

and

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, follows the daily lives of female professional footballers.

Career statistics

International appearances

International goals

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

Honours

Glasgow City *

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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 ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

: 2008–09,

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Bayern Munich *

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: 2015–16 Arsenal *

: 2018–19 *

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References

External links

*
Turbine Potsdam club profile
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