Lee Helen Gibson (née Alexander; born 23 September 1991) is a Scottish

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who plays as a

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for

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club Glasgow City and the Scotland women's national team.

Early life

Lee Gibson was born in

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on 27 September 1991. She grew up in the Stewartfield area of East Kilbride and was educated at Claremont High School.

Playing career

Club

Gibson played for Glasgow City for five years, winning fourteen trophies including four consecutive domestic trebles, before signing a full-time professional contract with Swedish

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club

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in December 2015. She rejoined Glasgow City in December 2016. She helped City progress to the quarter-finals of the

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by saving three of four kicks in a

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against Brondby.

International

Gibson was first called up to the full Scotland squad in November 2015 for a Euro 2017 qualifying match against Macedonia. Still uncapped, she was named in the Scotland squad for the Euro 2017 finals. Alexander became the first choice goalkeeper for Scotland after Euro 2017, when Gemma Fay retired. Her international debut came in a 3–0 friendly victory over

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on 14 September 2017, and she helped the team qualify for the

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. An important moment in the qualifying group was when Gibson saved a

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against

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. Scotland were eliminated in the

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of the World Cup, with Gibson playing in all three matches. In the third match, which Scotland had to win to progress, she initially saved a penalty but a retake was ordered by

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. The retaken penalty was scored and Scotland, who had led 3–0, could only draw 3–3 with

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Personal life

She married David Gibson in May 2022, and adopted her husband's name for her next international appearance. The marriage had originally been scheduled for the summer of 2020.

Honours

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(6):

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: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

References

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(SvFF) {{DEFAULTSORT:Gibson, Lee Living people 1991 births Sportspeople from East Kilbride Scottish women's footballers Women's association football goalkeepers Scotland women's international footballers Glasgow City F.C. players Hamilton Academical W.F.C. players Mallbackens IF players Scottish Women's Premier League players Damallsvenskan players People educated at Claremont High School (East Kilbride) Scottish expatriate women's footballers Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers from South Lanarkshire UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players