Lucy Michelle Parker (born 18 November 1998) is an English 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 defender for

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 oper ...

club

Aston Villa Aston Villa Football Club (commonly referred to as simply Villa) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club, founded in 1874, compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The team have p ...

Early life

Parker was born in

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a List of cities in the United Kingdom, city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, north of London. As of the 2021 Unit ...

and played with the

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academy for ten years. Parker attended

Hills Road Sixth Form College Hills Road Sixth Form College (commonly referred to as HRSFC, Hills Road or just Hills) is a public sector co-educational sixth form college in Cambridge, England, providing full-time A-level courses for approximately 2400 sixth form students f ...

between 2015 and 2016. ‌

College career

Parker played with

LSU Tigers The LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers (also known as the Fighting Tigers) are the athletic teams representing Louisiana State University (LSU), a state university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. LSU competes in Division I of the National Collegiat ...

and

UCLA Bruins The UCLA Bruins are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Los Angeles. The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Big Ten Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF ...

Club career

Parker signed her first professional contract with

West Ham United West Ham United Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Stratford, London, Stratford, East London, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English f ...

in 2021. She made her professional debut on 5 September 2021 in a 2–0 loss to

Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club, commonly referred to as Brighton, is a professional football club based in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Their home gr ...

. On 6 July 2023, Parker signed a two-year contract with

with the option to extend for a further year. She missed the majority of the 2023–24 season due to a recurring ankle injury, having twice suffered from injury in the season.

International career

An England youth international, Parker has played from the U15 to the U21 levels. Parker received her first senior international call-up on 27 September 2022 for the friendly matches against the

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and the

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, but was forced to drop out of the squad on 4 October due to injury. On 6 June 2025, Parker was named as a standby player for UEFA Euro 2025.

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LSU Tigers profile

UCLA Bruins profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Parker, Lucy 1998 births Living people English women's footballers Women's Super League players Footballers from Cambridge LSU Tigers women's soccer players UCLA Bruins women's soccer players West Ham United F.C. Women players Aston Villa W.F.C. players Women's association football defenders Kansas City Current draft picks England women's under-21 international footballers 21st-century English sportswomen People educated at Hills Road Sixth Form College