Jodie Lee Taylor (born 17 May 1986) is an English professional
footballer
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who plays as a
striker for
San Diego Wave of
NWSL. She began her club career with local team
Tranmere Rovers
Tranmere Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. The team compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1884 as Belmont Football Club, they ado ...
and had brief spells in her home country with
Birmingham City
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. Since 2011, the first te ...
,
Lincoln Ladies, and
Arsenal
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. A well-traveled player, she has also played abroad in the United States, Canada, Australia, Sweden and France.
Taylor represented
England
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at youth level before making her senior international debut in 2014. She scored the opening goal in the 2–1 quarter-final win over hosts Canada at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. England went on to win the bronze medal at the tournament. Taylor won the Golden Boot as top goalscorer at
Euro 2017, scoring five goals in four appearances.
Early life
Born in
Birkenhead
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, United Kingdom, Taylor made her first team debut for
Tranmere Rovers
Tranmere Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. The team compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1884 as Belmont Football Club, they ado ...
in February 2002, at the age of 15, during a prolific season in youth football. That term she scored 109 goals across 125 games for
Oldershaw School, Merseyside Under–16s and Tranmere's reserve team. She then scored on her first team debut in Tranmere's 5–1 win over
Wolves
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in the
FA Women's Cup
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fifth round.
When Tranmere were
relegated
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in 2004 Taylor accepted a four-year scholarship to
Oregon State University
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. She had scored 29 goals in 38 first team appearances for Tranmere, despite missing six months of action with a broken leg.
Club career
Taylor played for various teams in the North American
USL W-League
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and in Australia for Melbourne Victory.
She returned to England in 2011, signing for Birmingham City, but moving to Lincoln Ladies on loan. After she scored two goals in six games, Lincoln wanted to keep Taylor for the
2012 FA WSL season. But she returned to her parent club Birmingham City following another off-season stint in Australia with Melbourne Victory.
At the
2012 FA Women's Cup Final, Taylor scored in Birmingham's
penalty shootout
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win over
Chelsea
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Places Australia
* Chelsea, Victoria
Canada
* Chelsea, Nova Scotia
* Chelsea, Quebec
United Kingdom
* Chelsea, London, an area of London, bounded to the south by the River Thames
** Chelsea (UK Parliament consti ...
. In January 2013, Taylor left Birmingham City for a one–year loan to
Damallsvenskan
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team Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC. She scored ten goals in ten games for Göteborg but left during the summer break, returning to England for personal reasons. In December 2013, she signed with the
Washington Spirit
The Washington Spirit is an American professional soccer club based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that participates in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). It is a continuation of the D.C. United Women of the W-League and cont ...
for the
2014 National Women's Soccer League season.
On 16 January 2015 the
Portland Thorns FC
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acquired Taylor in a trade with the Washington Spirit in exchange for a 2015 second-round pick (No. 13 overall) and two-second-round picks in 2016. On 8 October 2015, defending
W-League champions
Canberra United
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announced that they had signed Taylor on loan, only for a recurrence of a knee injury to force her to pull out of the deal.
On 24 March 2016,
Arsenal
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announced the signing of Taylor. Taylor did not make her debut in the
FA WSL
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until the club's final home game of the 2016 season, scoring twice in a 2–0 win over
relegated
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Doncaster Belles
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, having previously spent a large part of the campaign out injured.
Less than two years later, Taylor left
Arsenal
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on 21 November 2017, having played seventeen matches for the club, scoring ten goals. She signed for
Melbourne City FC
Melbourne City Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the south–eastern Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne East, that plays in the A-League, the top level of Australian soccer, under licence from Australian Professio ...
in Australia on a short-term contract. On the same day,
Reign FC
OL Reign is an American professional women's soccer team based in Seattle, Washington. Founded by Bill and Teresa Predmore in 2012 as Seattle Reign FC, it was one of eight inaugural members of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). In 2020, ...
announced that Taylor will join the club before the 2018
National Women's Soccer League
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season. By returning to the Pacific Northwest, she joins a select group of players who have played for both sides of the Cascadia rivalry with Seattle and the
Portland Thorns FC
The Portland Thorns FC is an American professional women's soccer team based in Portland, Oregon. Established in 2012, the team began play in 2013 in the then-eight-team National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), which receives support from the Uni ...
:
Michelle Betos
Michelle Jenny Betos (born February 20, 1988) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for NJ/NY Gotham FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).
Betos previously played for Vålerenga, Apollon Limassol, Po ...
,
Amber Brooks
Amber Jean Brooks (born January 23, 1991) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for Washington Spirit in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She has previously played for Adelaide United, Houston Dash, OL Re ...
,
Danielle Foxhoven,
Kaylyn Kyle
Kaylyn McKenzie Kyle (born October 6, 1988) is a former Canadian soccer player who last played as a midfielder for the Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League. She was also a member of Canada women's national soccer team, winning a ...
,
Allie Long
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and
Jessica McDonald
Jessica Marie McDonald (born February 28, 1988) is an American professional soccer player for Racing Louisville FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the highest division of women's professional soccer in the United States, and the ...
. She signed a new one-year contract, with an option for a further year, with Reign FC on 22 January 2020. In December 2020, while Taylor was still in France,
OL Reign
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traded her NWSL playing rights along with
Taylor Smith Taylor Smith may refer to:
* Taylor Smith (Australian footballer) (born 2000), Australian rules footballer with the Gold Coast Suns
* Taylor Smith (basketball) (born 1991), American basketball player
* Taylor Smith (golfer) (1967–2007), American ...
to
North Carolina Courage
The North Carolina Courage is a professional women's soccer team based in Cary, North Carolina. It was founded on January 9, 2017, after Stephen Malik acquired National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) franchise rights from the Western New York F ...
in exchange for
Ally Watt. In February 2021, Taylor's NWSL rights were once again traded, this time to
Orlando Pride
The Orlando Pride is a professional women's soccer team based in Orlando, Florida. The team joined the National Women's Soccer League, the top level of women's soccer in the US, for the 2016 season. It became the tenth team to be added to th ...
in exchange for
Carson Pickett
Carson Leighann Pickett (born September 15, 1993) is an American soccer player who plays as a defender for Racing Louisville FC of the NWSL and the United States national team.
Early life
Raised in Fleming Island on the northeastern coast ...
.
On 4 August 2020, Taylor joined French and European champions Lyon on a short-term deal until 31 December. On 30 August, she appeared as an 87th minute substitute for
Dzsenifer Marozsán
Dzsenifer Marozsán (; born 18 April 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for French club Olympique Lyonnais, as well as the Germany national team. She previously played for 1. FC Saarbrücken and 1. FFC Frankfurt in t ...
as Lyon beat
Wolfsburg
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Wolfsburg is famous as the location of Volkswagen AG's hea ...
3–1 in the
2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
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. In January 2021 it was announced her contract had been extended until the end of the season.
Having acquired her NWSL rights in February, Taylor signed with
Orlando Pride
The Orlando Pride is a professional women's soccer team based in Orlando, Florida. The team joined the National Women's Soccer League, the top level of women's soccer in the US, for the 2016 season. It became the tenth team to be added to th ...
through the end of the
2021 season on 8 July 2021.
On 1 December 2021, Taylor was traded from Orlando to
San Diego Wave FC
San Diego Wave FC is a National Women's Soccer League expansion team that began play in 2022. The team is based in San Diego, San Diego, California. The team is owned by Ron Burkle.
The team is the San Diego area's first women's professional soc ...
, a new NWSL expansion team managed by her former England teammate
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 footbal ...
.
International career
Newly appointed
England
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coach
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** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers
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* Co ...
Mark Sampson
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Playing career
Born and raised in Creigiau, a suburb of Car ...
included Taylor in a 30-player squad for the annual training camp in
La Manga Club
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, which included a match against
Norway
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on 17 January 2014. She withdrew from the squad due to club commitments and was replaced by
Isobel Christiansen
Isobel Mary "Izzy" Christiansen (born 20 September 1991) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward for Everton in the FA WSL and the England national team.
Club career
Christiansen captained the women's football club at t ...
.
In August 2014 Taylor made her debut in England's 4–0
friendly win over
Sweden
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at
Victoria Park Victoria Park may refer to:
Places Australia
* Victoria Park Nature Reserve, a protected area in Northern Rivers region, New South Wales
* Victoria Park, Adelaide, a park and racecourse
* Victoria Park, Brisbane, a public park and former golf ...
in
Hartlepool
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. She scored what would have been her first international goal in a friendly against the
United States
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on 14 February 2015, only for it to be wrongly ruled out for offside.
On 6 March 2015, at the
2015 Cyprus Cup, Taylor scored a hat trick for England in their 3–0 group win against
Australia
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. The win gave them a place in the finals. On her tenth appearance for England, at the
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
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, Taylor capitalised on a mistake by
Lauren Sesselmann
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of host nation Canada to put England 1–0 up in their quarter-final game. England went on to win 2–1 to secure their first ever semi-final appearance.
Taylor was selected as part of England's squad for
UEFA Women's Euro 2017
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and was given the number 9 shirt for the tournament. She scored a hat-trick in the team's 6–0 opening group match victory against Scotland, becoming the first Englishwoman to do so in a major tournament. She scored again in the next game as England beat Spain 2–0 and the only goal in a 1–0 quarter-final win over France as England reached the semi-finals. With five goals, Taylor won the tournament's golden boot, one ahead of
Vivianne Miedema
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.
In May 2019, Phil Neville selected Jodie Taylor for England's
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
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squad. She made three appearances and scored once in a group stage win over Argentina.
Personal life
Jodie was married to fellow footballer and
New Zealand national team player
Emma Kete
Emma Jillian Kete (born 1 September 1987) is a New Zealand footballer who most recently played as a centre forward for Canberra United and the New Zealand national team.
Club career
Kete joined Ottawa Fury Women in July 2009, playing alongsid ...
.
Career statistics
:''Scores and results list England's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Taylor goal.''
Honours
Birmingham City
*
FA Cup
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:
2012
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Göteborg
*
Svenska Supercupen
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In the event of a ...
: 2013
Melbourne City
*
W-League Championship:
2018
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Lyon
*
UEFA Women's Champions League
The UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–2009), is a European women's association football competition. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA.
The ...
:
2019–20
England
*
FIFA Women's World Cup
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third place:
2015
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*
SheBelieves Cup
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:
2019
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Individual
*
UEFA Women's Championship
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Golden Boot:
2017
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*
Vauxhall England Player of the Year: 2017
See also
*
List of England national football team hat-tricks
Since the inception of international association football matches in 1872, 58 England male footballers have scored three or more goals (a hat-trick) in a game. The first players to score a hat-trick for England were Howard Vaughton and Arthu ...
*
List of foreign NWSL players
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#Have played at least one NWSL regular season game. Players who were signed by NWSL clubs, but only played in playoff games, cup games, or did not pla ...
*
List of foreign Damallsvenskan players
*
List of foreign Division 1 Féminine players
*
List of foreign W-League (Australia) players
*
List of Melbourne Victory Women players
This is a list of Melbourne Victory FC W-League players both past and present.
A
* Laura Alleway
* Rachel Alonso
* Meghan Archer
B
* Melissa Barbieri
* Lauren Barnes
* Enza Barilla
* Louisa Bisby
* Ashley Brown (footballer), Ashley Brown
C
* ...
*
W-League (Australia) all-time records
This is a list of A-League Women records and statistics.
Club honours
Champions
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...
*
List of UEFA Women's Championship records
References
External links
*
*
Profileat
The Football Association
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*
*
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1986 births
Living people
English women's footballers
Pali Blues players
Portland Thorns FC players
Melbourne Victory FC (A-League Women) players
Arsenal W.F.C. players
Birmingham City W.F.C. players
Tranmere Rovers L.F.C. players
BK Häcken FF players
Sydney FC (A-League Women) players
Washington Spirit players
Canberra United FC players
Melbourne City FC (A-League Women) players
Orlando Pride players
Women's Super League players
FA Women's National League players
A-League Women players
USL W-League (1995–2015) players
English expatriate women's footballers
English expatriate sportspeople in Australia
English expatriate sportspeople in Canada
English expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
English expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States
University of Oregon alumni
Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden
England women's under-23 international footballers
National Women's Soccer League players
Oregon State Beavers women's soccer players
England women's international footballers
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Sportspeople from Birkenhead
Expatriate women's soccer players in Australia
Expatriate women's soccer players in Canada
OL Reign players
San Diego Wave FC players
Women's association football forwards
Universiade bronze medalists for Great Britain
Universiade medalists in football
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players
LGBT association football players from the United Kingdom
LGBT sportspeople from England
Damallsvenskan players
Lesbian sportswomen
Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players
Ottawa Fury (women) players
Boston Renegades players