Jenna Kingsley (born 24 March 1992) is a retired Australian
soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
player, who played for
Central Coast Mariners,
Western Sydney Wanderers, and
Newcastle Jets in the Australian
W-League.
Early life
Kingsley was born in
Penrith and grew up in
Cambridge Park. She is a cousin of English footballer
Kyle Bartley
Kyle Louis Bartley (born 22 May 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a central defender for club West Bromwich Albion.
Bartley started his career with Arsenal, making his debut in 2009. He spent some of the 2009 season an ...
.
Club career
Junior football
Kingsley played her junior football in Western Sydney for Emu Plains, Penrith RSL and Penrith SC.
Central Coast Mariners
Kingsley made her debut for
Central Coast Mariners against
Newcastle Jets on Saturday, 29 November 2008 after being substituted on for teammate Britt Simmons. She then made her scoring debut in round 7 against
Adelaide United scoring a double and assisting the team to a record 6–0 win away from home. Kingsley then scored her third goal in the last round of her first season against
Melbourne Victory assisting the team to a 2–0 win at home which knocked Melbourne out of the finals.
Western Sydney Wanderers
In 2012, Kingsley joined new expansion club
Western Sydney Wanderers for their inaugural season.
Newcastle Jets
Kingsley joined
Newcastle Jets ahead of the
2015–16 W-League
The 2015–16 W-League season was the eighth season of the W-League, the Australian national women's association football competition. On 13 May 2015, it was confirmed that Melbourne City would join the league for the 2015–16 season.
Leagu ...
season.
International career
Kingsley made her first appearance for the
Australia women's national soccer team against Hong Kong in an Olympic Games qualifier as a second-half substitute for
Caitlin Cooper. She then scored the final goal of the match in the 83rd minute to make the score 8–1. Her debut game featured seven other, then-fellow Mariners' teammates
Rachael Doyle,
Lyndsay Glohe
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Kohlet grew up in Orange, New South Wales, attending Orange High School.
She was a member of the NS ...
,
Teresa Polias
Teresa Polias ('' el, Πόλιας'', born 16 May 1990) is an Australian soccer player, who played for Sydney FC in the Australian W-League.
Personal life
Polias was born in 1990 in Darlinghurst, New South Wales in a family of Greek descent. S ...
,
Renee Rollason,
Ellyse Perry,
Kyah Simon and
Caitlin Cooper. to this day she has made 74 appearances scoring 51 goals for the Australian women's national team.
Retirement
In November 2020, Kingsley retired from football after making 288 appearances, and scoring 189 goals in the W-League.
References
External links
Young Matildas profile
1992 births
Living people
Australian women's soccer players
Central Coast Mariners FC (A-League Women) players
Western Sydney Wanderers FC (A-League Women) players
Newcastle Jets FC (A-League Women) players
A-League Women players
Women's association football forwards
Soccer players from Sydney
Sportswomen from New South Wales
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