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Arsenal W.F.C. Academy
Arsenal Women Football Club Academy (Arsenal W.F.C. Academy) is the youth academy of Arsenal Women Football Club. The academy operates for girls from 9 to 21 years old. History The academy has won three FA Girls Youth Cups in addition to other trophies lifted altogether. Notable players This is a list of former Arsenal W.F.C. Academy players who have gone on to represent their country at full international level. Players who are still at Arsenal, or play at another club on loan from Arsenal, are highlighted in bold. :''Updated 16 August 2022'' * Lily Agg * Anita Asante * Jade Bailey * Paige Bailey-Gayle * Vaila Barsley * Lauren Bruton * Laura Coombs * Gemma Davison * Anna Filbey * Gilly Flaherty * Silvana Flores * Angharad James * Lauren James * Cherelle Khassal * Chloe Kelly * Hayley Ladd * Taryn Rockall * Vyan Sampson * Lianne Sanderson * Alex Scott * Renée Slegers * Drew Spence * Rebecca Spencer * Casey Stoney * Leah Williamson * ...
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Meadow Park (Borehamwood)
Meadow Park, currently known as the LV Bet Stadium Meadow Park for sponsorship purposes, is a football ground in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England. It is the home ground of Boreham Wood F.C., and also hosts the home matches of Arsenal Women F.C. and Arsenal youth teams. Meadow Park is also the name of the public park which includes the football ground, as well as children's play areas, tennis courts, multi-sports courts, interactive play, a teen shelter, football pitches, open grassland and a wildflower meadow. History Boreham Wood moved to Meadow Park from Eldon Avenue in 1963.Boreham Wood
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A new main stand was built shortly afterwards. That was demolished in 1999 and replaced by a stand with a cantilevered roof. A new West Stand was opened in 2014. A new ...
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Cherelle Khassal
Cherelle Khassal (born 9 January 1991) is an Irish people, Irish international Association football, footballer who plays for Portsmouth F.C. Ladies, Portsmouth of the English FA Women's National League. She made her debut for the Republic of Ireland women's national football team in May 2012. Club career As a youngster Khassal travelled from Cowes on the Isle of Wight to train with Portsmouth F.C. Ladies, Portsmouth when she was attending Cowes Enterprise College, Cowes High School. She was scouted by Arsenal L.F.C., Arsenal and joined The Gunners on a four-year academy contract in 2006. During the spring of 2010 Khassal was attached to Irish club Benfica W.S.C., Benfica. After moving to attend Capilano University, she played in the North American USL W-League (1995–2015), USL W-League with Santa Clarita Blue Heat and Los Angeles Strikers. She was nominated for W-League Rookie of the Season in 2010 W-League (North America), 2010. She then moved back to Ireland and made a f ...
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Ellen White (footballer)
Ellen Toni Convery (née White, born 9 May 1989), commonly known as Ellen White, is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward. White is the record goalscorer for the England women's national team. With England, she has competed at three FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments: in the 2011, 2015 and 2019, reaching the semi-finals in 2015 and 2019 and finishing third in 2015. White earned the Bronze Boot award at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France. She represented Great Britain team at the 2012 and 2020 Summer Olympics. Having progressed through Arsenal academy, White returned to the Gunners in 2010 after spells with Chelsea and Leeds United. She has also played for Notts County and Birmingham City. White earned the WSL's Golden Boot Award for most goals scored during the 2017–18 season. With Arsenal, she won the league in 2011 and 2012; the FA Women's Cup in 2011 and 2013 and the FA WSL Cup in 2011, 2012, and 2013. With Birmingham City, she was the le ...
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Sarah Wiltshire
Sarah Francis Wiltshire (born 7 July 1991) is a professional Association football, footballer who plays for Cambridge United in the English FA Womens National League Division 1 South East and Wales women's national football team, Wales as a midfielder or forward. Career Wiltshire made her first team debut for Arsenal L.F.C., Arsenal as a 15-year old against Leeds Ladies F.C., Leeds, in April 2007. On 12 July 2014, Wiltshire signed for fellow FA WSL 2 side Yeovil Town L.F.C., Yeovil Town from Watford L.F.C., Watford Ladies. On 5 January 2015, Wiltshire left Yeovil Town L.F.C., Yeovil Town to sign a professional contract with FA WSL 1 side Manchester City W.F.C., Manchester City, having scored 10 goals in just 11 league games in her short time with Yeovil. Wiltshire only made one appearance for Manchester City before re-signing for Yeovil in June 2015. In July 2016, Wiltshire announced that she was taking a temporary break from football, due to pregnancy. Wiltshire returned to Yeo ...
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Leah Williamson
Leah Cathrine Williamson (born 29 March 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays for Women's Super League club Arsenal and captains the England women's national team. A versatile player, she plays in central defence or the midfield. She has spent her entire senior domestic career at Arsenal. She also represented Great Britain at the Olympics in 2021. Williamson captained England to their first UEFA European Championship victory, and the women's team's first international title, in 2022, for which she was named in the Team of the Tournament. After being part of Arsenal's youth programme from the age of nine, Williamson debuted for the senior team as a teenager at the end of their 2014 Champions League campaign; she started for them in the League Cup final that year, in which she had individual success. With Arsenal, Williamson has won the League once and the FA Cup and League Cup twice each. She has captained Arsenal on various occasions and reached 200 app ...
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Casey Stoney
Casey Jean Stoney (born 13 May 1982) is an English professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of San Diego Wave FC. A versatile defender, she was capped more than 100 times for the England women's national football team since making her debut in 2000. After being a non-playing squad member at UEFA Women's Euro 2005, she was an integral part of the England teams which reached the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 final and the quarter finals of the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2007 and 2011. In 2012, Stoney succeeded Faye White as the England captain and also became captain of the newly formed Team GB squad for the 2012 London Olympics. She ended her playing career at Liverpool Ladies. She was appointed as the first head coach of the newly-formed Manchester United Women on 8 June 2018. Club career Chelsea and Arsenal Stoney joined Chelsea Ladies, aged 12, before moving to Arsenal Ladies in 1999. Charlton Athletic Already an England international, Stoney join ...
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Rebecca Spencer
Rebecca Leigh "Becky" Spencer (born 22 February 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for FA WSL club Tottenham Hotspur and the Jamaica women's national team. After coming through the ranks at Arsenal, she had spent short spells with French club ASJ Soyaux and Birmingham City before returning to Arsenal ahead of the 2013 FA WSL. She spent two-and-a-half more years with Birmingham City, before joining Chelsea in January 2016. Born in England, Spencer represented England at Under-19 and Under-20 levels and now represents Jamaica at senior international level. Early life Born in Northwick Park, Spencer attended Rooks Heath College and in January 2009 was a fitness student in St Albans. Club career Spencer began her career as a junior with Watford Ladies before joining the Centre of Excellence at Arsenal Ladies in 2001. She progressed through the centre of excellence age groups and joined the senior team in 2006, where she was primarily the understud ...
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Drew Spence
Drew Spence (born 23 October 1992) is an English-born Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for FA WSL club Tottenham Hotspur and the Jamaica women's national football team. She played for the England women's national football team in 2015. Club career Chelsea and England teammate Gilly Flaherty recalled playing alongside Spence in the Arsenal Centre of Excellence. Spence progressed to Fulham's youth team, before signing for Chelsea in 2008. Chelsea reached the FA Women's Cup final for the first time in 2012, but were eventually beaten by Birmingham City in a penalty shootout after twice taking the lead in a 2–2 draw. Spence's effort was saved by Becky Spencer. In 2015 Chelsea won their first ever major trophy, in the 2015 FA Women's Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. They then beat Sunderland 4–0 in October 2015 to secure the FA WSL title and a League and Cup "double". At the end of the season Spence signed a new two-year contract with Chelsea. During a ...
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Renée Slegers
Renée Josiena Anna Slegers (born 5 February 1989) is a Dutch football coach and former international midfielder. As a player she represented Willem II, as well as Swedish Damallsvenskan clubs Djurgårdens IF and Linköpings FC. She won 55 caps for the Netherlands women's national football team and appeared at UEFA Women's Euro 2013. In November 2018 Slegers was appointed head coach of IF Limhamn Bunkeflo. Club career In 2011 Slegers left Willem II for Swedish club Djurgårdens IF. When Djurgårdens were relegated in 2012, she moved to Linköpings FC for the following season. A serious knee injury sustained in November 2016 eventually brought about the end of Slegers' playing career and she was forced to announce her retirement in February 2018. She coached IF Limhamn Bunkeflo's under-19 team in the 2018 season and was promoted to the head coach role in November 2018. International career On 5 March 2009 Slegers debuted for the senior Netherlands women's national football te ...
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Alex Scott (footballer, Born 1984)
Alexandra Virina Scott (born 14 October 1984) is an English sports presenter, pundit, and former professional footballer who mostly played as a right-back for Arsenal in the FA WSL. She made 140 appearances for the England national team and represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics. At club level, Scott has had three separate spells with Arsenal, punctuated with a season at Birmingham City in 2004–05 and three years in the American Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) with Boston Breakers. She scored the winning goal for Arsenal in the 2007 UEFA Women's Cup Final. In 2019, Scott was inducted to the English Football Hall of Fame. , Scott is a pundit for BBC Sport and Sky Sports and was featured during the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. She also covers the English Premier League. Early life Alexandra Virina Scott was born on 14 October 1984 in Poplar, East London, to a British mother with Northern Irish, English and Lithuanian-Jewish heritag ...
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Lianne Sanderson
Lianne Joan Sanderson (born 3 February 1988) is a current broadcaster and former English professional footballer who played as a forward. She won 50 caps for the England national team. At international level, Sanderson made her debut for England in May 2006. She was part of the England squad at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup and UEFA Women's Euro 2009. In August 2010, Sanderson complained of unfair treatment and declared she would not play for England again under then coach Hope Powell. After Mark Sampson took over as manager in December 2013, she was recalled to the squad and participated at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. She then made further complaints of unfair treatment and was not selected after 2015. Early life At the age of six, Sanderson started playing for a boys' team in South London. Her father played for Crystal Palace. Sanderson says she begged her father to let her play on a team starting at the age of five years old. At nine years old, Sanderson signed for Ars ...
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Vyan Sampson
Vyan Sampson (born 2 July 1996) is a Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a defender for Heart of Midlothian in the Scottish Women's Premier League for the Jamaica women's national team. Club career Sampson began her career in the youth ranks at Charlton Athletic before joining FA WSL 1 club Arsenal in 2011. Originally she played with the youth and reserve teams, where she won both domestic cups at reserve level and the League Cup with the Under-17s. She remained in the lower levels of Arsenal for three years between 2011 and 2014 before being promoted into the first-team squad, her competitive debut came on 12 October 2014 in the club's final WSL match of the season; a 3–1 home win versus Everton. In the following season, 2015, Sampson made just one league appearance for Arsenal but did play four times in the FA WSL Cup which Arsenal went on to win after a 3–0 final win against Notts County; Sampson was substituted on for the final few minutes. At the start o ...
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