Jodie Lee Taylor (born 17 May 1986) is an English professional

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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

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, Lincoln Ladies, and

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. A well-traveled player, she has also played abroad in the United States, Canada, Australia, Sweden and France. Taylor represented

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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

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, United Kingdom, Taylor made her first team debut for

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

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in the

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fifth round. When Tranmere were

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in 2004 Taylor accepted a four-year scholarship to

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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

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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

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win over

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. In January 2013, Taylor left Birmingham City for a one–year loan to

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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

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for the 2014 National Women's Soccer League season. On 16 January 2015 the

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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

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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. Arsenal LFC v Kelly Smith All-Stars XI (174)

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On 24 March 2016,

announced the signing of Taylor. Taylor did not make her debut in the

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until the club's final home game of the 2016 season, scoring twice in a 2–0 win over

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, having previously spent a large part of the campaign out injured. Less than two years later, Taylor left

on 21 November 2017, having played seventeen matches for the club, scoring ten goals. She signed for

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in Australia on a short-term contract. On the same day,

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announced that Taylor will join the club before the 2018

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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

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, Danielle Foxhoven,

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and

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. 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,

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traded her NWSL playing rights along with

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in exchange for Ally Watt. In February 2021, Taylor's NWSL rights were once again traded, this time to

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in exchange for

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. 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

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as Lyon beat

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3–1 in the

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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

through the end of the 2021 season on 8 July 2021. On 1 December 2021, Taylor was traded from Orlando to

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, a new NWSL expansion team managed by her former England teammate

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International career

Newly appointed

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included Taylor in a 30-player squad for the annual training camp in

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, which included a match against

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on 17 January 2014. She withdrew from the squad due to club commitments and was replaced by

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. In August 2014 Taylor made her debut in England's 4–0 friendly win over

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. She scored what would have been her first international goal in a friendly against the

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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

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. The win gave them a place in the finals. On her tenth appearance for England, at the

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, Taylor capitalised on a mistake by

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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. 20170719 WEURO ENG SCO 5878

Taylor was selected as part of England's squad for

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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

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. In May 2019, Phil Neville selected Jodie Taylor for England's

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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

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Career statistics

:''Scores and results list England's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Taylor goal.''

Honours

Birmingham City *

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Göteborg *

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: 2013 Melbourne City * W-League Championship:

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Lyon *

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: 2019–20 England *

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third place:

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Individual *

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Golden Boot:

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* Vauxhall England Player of the Year: 2017

References

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