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footballer
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who plays for
Scottish Women's Premier League
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(SWPL) club
Motherwell
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caps
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and two goals for the
Scotland women's national football team
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.
Club career
Crilly joined
Hamilton Academical
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at youth team level and progressed to playing for the first team in the SWPL, including winning the club's Player of the Month award for September 2012.
In December 2012, Crilly signed for league champions Glasgow City, where she had already been a transfer target for a number of years. She scored in her debut appearance during the
2013
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season opener against
Rangers
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, which Glasgow City won 3–2.
Crilly made her European debut and featured prominently in Glasgow City's
2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League
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German team VfL Wolfsburg won the title over Swedish club Ty ...
campaign. During the group stage, she scored 5 goals in 3 games - one goal each against
Osijek
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and
FC Twente
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and a hat-trick against
Birkirkara
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- leading Glasgow City to finish top of Group 8. On 17 October, Crilly added to her Champions League total in the
Round of 32
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against
Standard Liège
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, scoring one goal and assisting on a
Denise O'Sullivan
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volley in a 3–1 second leg victory, helping Glasgow City to a 5–3 aggregate win and progression to the Round of 16.
During Crilly's first season with Glasgow City, the club won the SWPL, the
Scottish Women's Cup
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First held in 1970–71 and known as the Scottish Women's FA Cup, the competition was owned and managed by Scottish Women's Football (SWF), an ...
, and the
SWPL Cup
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, completing their second successive domestic treble.
Crilly later suffered a long-term knee injury that kept her out of football for almost two years; she returned to play in the semi-finals of the 2015 Scottish Cup against Rangers on 11 October, which Glasgow City won 2–0. On 18 October, Crilly made an appearance as a substitute in a league match against
Aberdeen
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; Glasgow City's 3–1 victory secured the 2015 SWPL title. She also played in the Scottish Cup final, which Glasgow City won 3–0 over
Hibernian
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, earning Glasgow City their fourth consecutive domestic treble.
During the 2016 season, Crilly scored Glasgow City's only Champions League goal in a 1–3 aggregate defeat against
Eskilstuna
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in the
Round of 32
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. On 16 October, she scored four goals in the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,SWPL 2 side Glasgow Girls, which Glasgow City won 9–0. Crilly opened scoring in Glasgow City's 3–1 win over Hibernian on 23 October; the result left Glasgow City eight points clear with one game remaining, securing the SWPL title - Glasgow City's 10th in a row.
In December 2016 Crilly left Glasgow City to sign for
Celtic
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Sports Foot ...
.
International career
At youth levels, Crilly represented Scotland in the
2008 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
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Qualification
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; she was the tournament's top scorer in the first qualifying round with 5 goals in 3 games, leading Scotland to the top of Group 8. At U-19 level she also represented Scotland during their qualification for the
2010 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
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but was held out of the finals due to injury.
After Scotland suffered a series of injuries during an August 2012 friendly against
Norway
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at
East End Park
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, national
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Anna Signeul
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called on Crilly, who was at the match as a spectator. Wearing oversized borrowed kit and boots, Crilly came on as a second-half substitute and scored the equalising goal in the 2–2 draw.
Following her debut, Crilly made three further appearances - all also as a substitute - for the senior national team, her last during the 2013 Torneio Internacional de BrasÃlia in which she scored against
Chile
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. After injuries kept her out of football for almost two years, Crilly was selected for a July 2016 national training camp in preparation for Euro 2017 qualifiers but later withdrew from the camp.
Crilly also attended the
Scottish Football Association
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's (SFA) National Performance Centre at the
University of Stirling
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