Rebecca Eileen Dempster (born 10 February 1991) is a Scottish

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who plays as a

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for Italian club Fimauto Valpolicella. She has made three appearances for the Scotland national team.

Early life

Dempster grew up in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, and was educated at

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Playing career

Club

Dempster played for Inverness City before joining

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in 2009. After a spell with Forfar Farmington, she joined Hibernian ahead of the 2011 season. on 25 May 2011, she was part of the Hibernian team that won the

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, beating

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5–2 in the final. In 2012, Dempster joined

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, where she played for three seasons. She then spent a year out of official football before signing for Fimauto Valpolicella in Italy in 2016. In her first season, Valpolicella won promotion from

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International

Dempster made her debut for the Scotland under-17 team against

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in September 2007, going on to make four appearances at that level. She then progressed to the under-19 squad, where she scored twelve goals in eleven appearances, including a

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in a 5–1 win against

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in September 2009. At the 2010 European Championships, she scored three times in three matches. Dempster was given her first call-up to the full

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squad in 2010. She won her first international cap in a friendly match against

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on 18 May 2011. She made further appearances against

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and

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in 2012.

Honours

Club

Hibernian: *

: 2011 Fimauto Valpolicella: *

Group C: 2016–17

References

External links

* * Living people 1991 births People from Ellon, Aberdeenshire Women's association football forwards Scottish women's footballers Scotland women's international footballers Celtic F.C. Women players Hibernian W.F.C. players People educated at Ellon Academy Expatriate women's footballers in Italy Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Italy Scottish expatriate women's footballers Forfar Farmington F.C. players Footballers from Aberdeenshire Aberdeen F.C. Women players {{Scotland-women-footy-bio-stub