Raven Edwards-Dowdall (born 14 May 2000) is a

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

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for the

North Toronto Nitros North Toronto Nitros is a Canadian semi-professional association football, soccer club based in Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, Ontario. The club was founded in 1980 as a youth soccer club and added its men's semi-professional club in League1 Ontario ...

League1 Ontario League1 Ontario (L1ON) is a semi-professional men's soccer league in Ontario, Canada. The league is sanctioned by the Canadian Soccer Association and the Ontario Soccer Association. League1 Ontario consists of three tiers – League1 Premier ...

. Born in Canada, she plays for the Guyana women's national team.

College career

Edwards-Dowdall attended college at

Seneca College Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, branded as Seneca Polytechnic since 2023, is a multi-campus public college in the Greater Toronto Area and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. It offers full-time and part-time programs at the baccala ...

, where she played for the women's team. In 2022, she was named the OCAA Women's Indoor Championship MVP and OCAA Women's Indoor Championship Top Goalkeeper.

Club career

In 2016, she played a match with

Vaughan Azzurri Vaughan Azzurri is a Canadian semi-professional soccer team based in Vaughan, Ontario, that currently competes in the League1 Ontario men's and women's divisions. The semi-professional team was founded in 2014 by the Vaughan Soccer Club, which ...

. In 2022, she played for the

. In March 2023, she signed with Romanian club

FC Carmen București Carmen București was a Romanian football club based in Bucharest. In 2017, Carmen București was refounded and introduced in the Liga IV, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system. In the summer of 2019, owner of Carmen bought Spo ...

. She then returned to the Nitros for the 2023 season.

International career

In 2020, she represented Guyana U20 at the

2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship The 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship was the 10th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth association football, football championship organized by CONCACAF for the women's under-20 national teams ...

, being named to the national side for the first time. In 2022, she was named to the Guyana national team.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards-Dowdall, Raven 2000 births Living people Guyanese women's footballers Guyanese people of Jamaican descent Sportspeople of Jamaican descent Guyanese people of English descent Women's association football goalkeepers Guyana women's international footballers Canadian women's soccer players Canadian sportspeople of Guyanese descent Canadian sportspeople of Jamaican descent Canadian people of English descent League1 Ontario (women) players North Toronto Nitros (women) players Seneca College alumni 21st-century Guyanese sportswomen Vaughan Azzurri (women) players 21st-century Canadian sportswomen